LONDON (AP): Two burglars who plotted the heist of a US$6.4 million golden toilet, a fully functional 18-carat piece of contemporary art that was ripped from the plumbing of an English mansion, were sentenced Friday to more than two years in a...
NEW DELHI (AP): The lone passenger who survived the Air India crash that killed 241 people onboard couldn’t believe he was alive when he opened his eyes, surrounded by flames, debris and charred bodies. The British national of Indian origin,...
AP: When the Rev Edward Anderson rallied in Los Angeles last week against the Trump administration’s intensifying immigration crackdown, he positioned himself between law enforcement and his fellow protesters, serving as a human buffer. Anderson,...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urged US officials on Friday not to target individuals attending a Gold Cup football match in Los Angeles between the Mexican national team and the Dominican Republic. Dozens of workers have...
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Dalila has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean just south of the southwestern coast of Mexico, forecasters said Friday. The cyclone is centred about 195 miles (315 kilometres) south of Zihuatanejo in Mexico's Guerrero...
AHMEDABAD (AP): One passenger survived the crash of an Air India plane bound for London that killed at least 240 people Thursday in Ahmedabad, one of India’s worst airline disasters in decades, officials said. The death toll includes medical...
BRASILIA (AP): The majority of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users, in a landmark case for Latin America with implications for US relations. Brazil’s top court...
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) says nearly 1.3 million people have been forced to flee gang violence in Haiti and seek refuge elsewhere within the French-speaking Caribbean Community (...
SAN SALVADOR (AP): Days before his arrest outside his daughter’s house in the outskirts of San Salvador, constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya called Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele a “dictator” and a “despot” on live TV. This week, lawyer Jaime...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): A Jamaican national has been sentenced to over four years in prison for possessing what prosecutors describe as an extremely deadly battle rifle that can fire up to 700 rounds per minute. Akini Walker, 27, appeared before...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iranian state television says the head of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is feared dead after an Israeli attack. The report offered few other details about what happened to General Hossein Salami of the Guard. The...
BRASILIA (CMC): Venezuela has reiterated its position regarding the ownership of the Essequibo Region in Guyana saying that nothing should be done there until the two countries settle the border dispute “Any initiative involving that area should...
SEOUL (AP): South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda along the inter-Korean border, marking the new liberal government’s first concrete step toward easing tensions between the war-divided rivals....
JERUSALEM (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government faced a major test Wednesday after the opposition submitted a bill to dissolve parliament, with his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners threatening to support the measure and...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): At least 49 people have died in flooding in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province after an extreme cold front brought heavy rain and snow to parts of the country, officials said Wednesday. Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane said...
All 12 members of the board overseeing the prestigious Fulbright scholarships resigned Wednesday in protest of what they call the Trump administration's meddling with the selection of award recipients for the international exchange programme. A...
HONG KONG (AP): Hong Kong police on Tuesday accused a mobile game application of advocating armed revolution and promoting secessionist agendas, saying that those who publish it or share it with others online may risk violating national security...
GRAZ (AP): A former student opened fire at a school in Austria’s second-biggest city on Tuesday, fatally wounding 10 people and injuring many others before taking his own life, the authorities said. There was no immediate information on the motive...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro was testifying for the first time before the Supreme Court on Tuesday over an alleged plot to remain in power and overturn the 2022 election result. Bolsonaro and seven close allies are...
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation's sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. at a south Alabama prison, authorities said,...
MIAMI (AP): President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens from a dozen countries took effect Monday with relative calm, as some travelers with valid visas reported extra scrutiny at American airports before being allowed entry...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, is urging Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela to exercise restraint and resolve their differences peacefully and in line with international law, after both...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Pentagon deployed about 700 Marines to Los Angeles on Monday to help National Guard members respond to immigration protests, officials said, as California prepared to sue President Donald Trump over his use of the Guard...
Following approval from its 51 member countries, Razmi Farook has been announced as the new Director-General of the Commonwealth Foundation, the Commonwealth’s agency for civil society. Farook will assume the role on September 1. Razmi Farook...
DUBAI (AP) The tattoos covering Iranian rapper Tataloo’s face stand out against the grey prison uniform the 37-year-old now wears as he awaits execution, his own rise and fall tracing the chaos of the last decade of Iranian politics. Tataloo,...
