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Teacher in Nigeria loses dozens of relatives and pupils in devastating floods

Published:Sunday | June 8, 2025 | 12:12 AM

MOKWA, Nigeria (AP): On May 29, Mallam Hassan Umar stood waist-deep and barefoot in muddy water, his eyes on the remnants of his Arabic school, now reduced to sludge and shattered wood by devastating floods. The Islamic teacher, clutching only the...

Appeals court hands AP a loss in its attempt to regain its access to Trump events

Published:Sunday | June 8, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Digging deep into free-speech precedents in recent American history, a federal appeals panel handed The Associated Press an incremental loss on Friday in its continuing battle with the Trump administration over access by its journalists to cover...

Trump and Musk break up, and Washington holds its breath

Published:Sunday | June 8, 2025 | 12:05 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Maybe it was always going to end this way, with two billionaires angrily posting about each other on social media, fingers flying across pocket-sized screens as their incandescent feud burned hotter by the minute. But even if the...

Modi inaugurates ambitious rail project connecting Kashmir to Indian plains

Published:Saturday | June 7, 2025 | 12:09 AM

NEW DELHI (AP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated one of the most ambitious railway projects ever built in India, which will connect the Kashmir Valley to the vast Indian plains by train for the first time. Dubbed by government-...

D-Day veterans return to Normandy to mark 81st anniversary

Published:Saturday | June 7, 2025 | 12:09 AM

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER (AP): Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime. Along the coastline and near the D-Day...

Judge puts temporary hold on Trump’s latest ban on Harvard’s foreign students

Published:Saturday | June 7, 2025 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): A federal judge has temporarily blocked a proclamation by President Donald Trump that banned foreign students from entering the US to attend Harvard University. Trump’s proclamation was the latest attempt by his Republican...

Regional leaders virtual summit postponed

Published:Friday | June 6, 2025 | 2:08 PM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders, who were due to meet virtually on Friday to discuss the situation in Haiti, where efforts continue to end the socio-economic and political crisis, have had to postpone their...

US imposes sanctions on Guyanese nationals, including a senior police officer

Published:Friday | June 6, 2025 | 9:06 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyanese government says it “will continue to work diligently” with the United States after the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a number of named Guyanese and...

Judge puts temporary hold on Trump's latest ban on Harvard's foreign students

Published:Friday | June 6, 2025 | 8:48 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked a proclamation by President Donald Trump that banned foreign students from entering the US to attend Harvard University. Trump's proclamation was the latest attempt by his Republican...

Teacher loses dozens of relatives, pupils in devastating floods

Published:Friday | June 6, 2025 | 12:09 AM

MOKWA, Nigeria (AP): On May 29, Mallam Hassan Umar stood waist-deep and barefoot in muddy water, his eyes on the remnants of his Arabic school, now reduced to sludge and shattered wood by devastating floods. The Islamic teacher, clutching only the...

Gov'ts scramble to understand Trump’s latest travel ban before it takes effect Monday

Published:Friday | June 6, 2025 | 12:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) : Governments of 12 countries whose citizens will be banned from visiting the United States beginning next week scrambled Thursday to understand President Donald Trump’s latest move to resurrect a hallmark policy of his first term...

UN appeals for US$46m to help Haitians facing severe hunger

Published:Friday | June 6, 2025 | 12:07 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): The UN food agency is appealing for US$46 million for the next six months to help about two million Haitians in dire need of food, including 8,500 at the worst catastrophic level of hunger. The appeal was issued by Lola Castro...

St Kitts-Nevis gets elected to powerful UN Economic and Social Council

Published:Friday | June 6, 2025 | 12:07 AM

UNITED NATIONS, (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew has welcomed the election of St Kitts-Nevis to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). According to the United Nations ECOSOC brings people and issues together to promote...

PM says no immediate plans to amend constitution

Published:Friday | June 6, 2025 | 12:07 AM

ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell says his administration has no plans to introduce constitutional changes that will result in term limits for the head of state as well as that of the government. “At this stage there are no plans to...

‘Heartbreaking and sad’

Published:Friday | June 6, 2025 | 12:07 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP): Afghans who worked for the US during its war against the Taliban urged President Donald Trump Thursday to exempt them from a travel ban that could lead to them being deported to Afghanistan, where they say they will face persecution...

Indonesia arrests foreign nationals in Bali on drug charges that could carry the death penalty

Published:Thursday | June 5, 2025 | 10:52 AM

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on the tourist island of Bali on Thursday announced the arrests of several foreign nationals, including an Australian, an Indian, and an American, on suspicion of possessing narcotics, charges that...

US Supreme Court blocks Mexico's US$10B lawsuit alleging US gunmakers have fuelled cartel violence

Published:Thursday | June 5, 2025 | 9:39 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a US$10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against top firearm manufacturers in the US alleging the companies' business practices have fuelled tremendous cartel violence and bloodshed. The...

Families devise ingenious solutions to endure frequent power shortages

Published:Thursday | June 5, 2025 | 12:08 AM

HAVANA (AP): For Marylín Álvarez and her family, like countless other Cubans, the question is no longer if the power will go out, but when, forcing them to implement ingenious alternatives to sustain daily life as the island undergoes its most...

Hungry wild elephant raids grocery store for snacks

Published:Thursday | June 5, 2025 | 12:08 AM

BANGKOK (AP): A hungry wild elephant caused havoc in a grocery store in Thailand on Monday when he strolled in from a nearby national park and helped himself to food on the shelves. Videos of the incident showed the huge male elephant, known as...

Several feared dead in stampede outside cricket stadium

Published:Thursday | June 5, 2025 | 12:08 AM

BENGALURU (AP): Several people were feared dead and many more injured in a stampede on Wednesday as crowds tried to enter a cricket stadium in southern India’s Karnataka state. The crush happened as thousands of cricket fans gathered outside the...

Trump's promised steel and aluminium tariffs go into effect

Published:Wednesday | June 4, 2025 | 10:15 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — US President Donald Trump hiked nearly all of his tariffs on steel and aluminium imports to a punishing 50 per cent on Wednesday in a move that's set to hammer businesses from automakers to home builders, and likely push up prices...

Putin’s uncompromising demands emerge after latest round of peace talks

Published:Wednesday | June 4, 2025 | 12:07 AM

AP: Russia took weeks to present to Ukraine with a “memorandum” setting out its conditions for a ceasefire, as well as key guidelines for a comprehensive treaty to end the more than three-year-old war. To practically no one’s surprise, it’s a list...

PNM to be led by a woman for the first time

Published:Wednesday | June 4, 2025 | 12:06 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles is on the verge of becoming the first woman ever to head the main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) after she was nominated unopposed for the position late Monday. Beckles, who 11...

Belize government warns against fake sexual enhancement products

Published:Tuesday | June 3, 2025 | 11:05 AM

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize government is warning the public against the purchase and consumption of a product in circulation labelled as Royal Honey, saying it is a product marketed for sexual enhancement. In a statement, the Ministry of...

Ukraine, Russia agree to swap dead but report no progress toward ending war

Published:Tuesday | June 3, 2025 | 12:09 AM

ISTANBUL (AP): Representatives of Russia and Ukraine met Monday for their second round of direct peace talks in just over two weeks, but aside from agreeing to swap thousands of their dead and seriously wounded troops, they made no progress toward...

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