MEXICO CITY (AP): State officials in northern Mexico say gunmen killed the owner of a newspaper and one of the policemen who had been assigned to protect him following earlier threats. Sonora state prosecutor office said Jorge Miguel Armenta Avalos...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he has asked Governor General Sir Rodney Williams to reappoint Athill Dean Jonas to his Cabinet after a six-month suspension. In a brief statement, Browne said that the parliamentary...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): President David Granger on Sunday reiterated that his administration is ready to accept the final declarations of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) after the national recount of the March 2 general and regional elections...
JERUSALEM (AP): After three deadlocked and divisive elections, a year and a half of political paralysis and another three-day delay because of political infighting in his Likud party, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally swore in his new...
DUBAI (AP): Five Iranian tankers, likely carrying at least $45.5 million worth of gasolene and similar products, are now sailing to Venezuela, part of a wider deal between the two US-sanctioned nations amid heightened tensions between Tehran and...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican experts predicted Friday that there will be a higher-than-average number of storms during the 2020 hurricane seasons in the Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific. The Pacific season opened Friday and the Atlantic...
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning doctors about a serious rare inflammatory condition in children linked with the coronavirus. In an alert issued Thursday, the CDC called the condition multisystem inflammatory...
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States layoffs soared in March to a record 11.4 million after state and local governments closed restaurants, bars, movie theatres and other nonessential businesses in response to the intensifying viral outbreak...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — A trough of low pressure moving through the Florida Straits could organise over the northwestern Bahamas later Friday or Saturday and become the first named storm of the 2020 hurricane season, the US ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Talks between the European Union and the United Kingdom on their post-Brexit relationship ground to a near-standstill Friday, with each side accusing the other of blocking progress on a trade deal just weeks before a crucial...
GENEVA (AP): The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said Thursday that he will leave his post a year early, a “personal decision” that sets the stage for a succession contest at the trade body amid lingering US-China tensions and a...
PORT OF SPAIN, (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Thursday said he “reject being called a liar” by the Trinidad Guardian newspaper, as the debate continues as to whether or not Trinidad and Tobago had played a role in getting Venezuela to break...
The need to twin food security issues with access to health services as a foundation for sustainable economic growth is one of the lessons being dictated by the COVID-19 pandemic, for the Latin American and Caribbean region, according to Dr Carissa...
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Trade Organization said Thursday that he will leave his post a year early, a “personal decision” that sets the stage for a succession contest at the trade body amid lingering US-China tensions...
ANKARA, Turkey -Turkish officials says Kurdish rebels have opened fire and killed two municipal workers distributing aid in an area under quarantine because of the pandemic. One other person was injured. The attack occurred Thursday on a road near...
CUSSETA, Georgia (AP) — After the Chattahoochee County school district called an early end to the school year, seniors lined up one day last week to complete their graduation paperwork. Students who hadn’t seen each other since in...
LONDON (AP) — The pandemic will cost the insurance industry over $200 billion, according to Lloyds of London, who estimated that its own payouts are now on a par with the September 11, 2001 attacks or the combined impact of hurricanes...
JERUSALEM (AP) — After three deadlocked and divisive elections, and a year and a half of political paralysis, Israel was finally swearing in a new government on Thursday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu securing a historic fifth term...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly three million laid-off workers applied for US unemployment benefits last week as the viral outbreak led more companies to slash jobs even though most states have begun to let some businesses reopen under certain...
WASHINGTON (CMC): A BIPARTISAN group of United States lawmakers on Tuesday expressed support for the recount exercise in Guyana and urged the authorities on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to allow the US-based Carter Center to observe...
CASTRIES (CMC): The St Lucia government Tuesday said that it remains committed to supporting Taiwan’s bid to become a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) after expressing concern that the Asian country remains absent...
NIAMEY (AP): Niger’s defence ministry says 75 fighters with the Boko Haram extremist group have been killed in two operations this week. Niger’s forces killed at least 25 on Monday after launching an offensive against Boko Haram fighters who...
BERLIN (AP): GERMAN CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel said Wednesday there is “hard evidence” of Russian involvement in a cyberattack on the German parliament in 2015 that reportedly also involved the theft of documents from her own parliamentary office....
CARACAS (AP): Authorities in Venezuela said Wednesday that they’re filing criminal charges against a prison warden and five guards following a riot that left 47 inmates dead and dozens more injured. Prison guards could have used less lethal force...
The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) is concerned about the rapid rate of coronavirus infections as well as mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas, with 1.74 million cases and 104,000 related deaths reported in the region up to...
