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Former New York state trooper pleads guilty to faking his own shooting

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 3:00 PM

MINEOLA, NY (AP) — A former New York state trooper pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he shot himself then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway, prompting a regionwide search. Thomas Mascia agreed to...

With little progress after phone calls and talks, Ukraine’s allies hit Russia with new sanctions

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 12:11 AM

KYIV (AP): Kyiv’s European allies slapped new sanctions Tuesday on Moscow, a day after a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce a breakthrough on ending the three-year-old war in Ukraine...

Iran’s supreme leader rejects US stance on uranium enrichment

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 12:11 AM

TEHRAN (AP): Iran’s supreme leader on Tuesday pushed back against US criticism of the country’s nuclear programme, saying that Tehran won’t seek permission from anyone to enrich uranium and calling American statements “nonsense”. “They say, ‘We...

Sudan’s army chief appoints prime minister

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 12:10 AM

CAIRO (AP): Sudan’s army chief on Monday appointed the country’s first prime minister since it plunged into civil war two years ago and following months of steady advances by the military against its paramilitary rival. Kamil al-Taib Idris will be...

Electoral tribunal bans ex-leader Morales, suspends a key candidate

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 12:09 AM

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP): Bolivia’s top electoral tribunal on Tuesday disqualified former President Evo Morales from running in the August presidential vote and suspended the candidacy of the other main leftist contender, immediately vaulting President...

EU says it will lift sanctions on Syria but leave those on the former Assad regime

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 12:09 AM

BARCELONA (AP): The European Union will lift sanctions on Syria’s economy but keep those in place targeting the former Assad regime, the EU’s top diplomat announced Tuesday. Foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas spoke after chairing a meeting of...

UK suspends free trade talks with Israel, announces sanctions over West Bank settlers

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 12:07 AM

LONDON (AP): The British government ramped up its criticism of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza by suspending free trade talks Tuesday and hitting West Bank settlers with sanctions. The moves came as international pressure mounts on Israel...

Gov’t bans arrival of flights from Colombia

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 12:06 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Venezuela on Monday banned the arrival of flights from neighbouring Colombia after authorities detained more than 30 people who were allegedly plotting activities to destabilise the country ahead of Sunday’s election. The...

68 migrants return in first voluntary deportation

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 12:06 AM

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP): The United States sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and Colombia back to their countries Monday on the first government-funded flight of what the Trump administration is calling voluntary deportations. In the northern...

France’s plan to build a maximum security prison wing in French Guiana angers local officials

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 12:06 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in French Guiana, sparking an outcry among residents and local officials. The wing would form...

Lawyer pleased with High Court ruling on SOE detentions

Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2025 | 12:06 AM

BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC): Prominent defence attorney, Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, has welcomed the ruling by Justice Nadine Nabie, that 16 men held under the state of emergency (SOE) in July 2020 were unlawfully imprisoned, resulting in the Government...

Texas man is executed 13 years to the day of a store robbery in which he set a clerk on fire

Published:Tuesday | May 20, 2025 | 9:21 PM

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man was executed Tuesday evening, 13 years to the day of a convenience store robbery in which he set an elderly clerk on fire in a Dallas suburb. Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, received a lethal injection at the state...

Arrested New Orleans jail worker says he helped inmates to escape after stabbing threat

Published:Tuesday | May 20, 2025 | 5:12 PM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested and is being held on a $1.1 million bond after admitting he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in a cell wall, allowing 10 men to squeeze through the gap in one...

Russia outlaws Amnesty International in latest crackdown on dissent, activists

Published:Tuesday | May 20, 2025 | 12:09 AM

The Russian authorities on Monday outlawed Amnesty International as an “undesirable organisation,” a label that under a 2015 law makes involvement with such organisations a criminal offence. The decision by the Russian Prosecutor General’s office,...

UK, France, Canada threaten ‘concrete actions’ against Israel, including sanctions

Published:Tuesday | May 20, 2025 | 12:08 AM

TEL AVIV (AP): The UK, France and Canada are threatening “concrete actions” against Israel, including sanctions, for its activities in Gaza and West Bank. The joint statement on Monday sharply criticizes Israel’s decision to allow a limited, “...

Maryland Gov Wes Moore vetoes slavery reparations study, citing need for ‘the work itself’

Published:Tuesday | May 20, 2025 | 12:08 AM

ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND (AP): Maryland Govenor Wes Moore announced Friday that he will veto a measure to create a commission to study potential slavery reparations in the state, saying that while it was a difficult decision, the issue already has been...

US jury convicts once powerful Haitian gang leader in kidnapping of US missionaries

Published:Tuesday | May 20, 2025 | 12:08 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): A US jury has found a once powerful Haitian gang leader guilty of organising the kidnapping of 16 US citizens in 2021 and holding them hostage for more than two months. Germine Joly, whom authorities said led the 400...

Passenger jet had to abort takeoff to avoid runway collision at New York's LaGuardia Airport

Published:Monday | May 19, 2025 | 9:44 PM

Federal officials are investigating why two planes got dangerously close on a runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport earlier this month despite the airport being equipped with an advanced surface radar system that's designed to help prevent such...

US sends 68 migrants back to Honduras and Colombia in first voluntary deportation

Published:Monday | May 19, 2025 | 6:59 PM

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — The United States on Monday sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and Colombia back to their countries, the first government-funded flight of what the Trump administration is calling voluntary deportations. In the...

Trump says Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks will begin immediately following call with Putin

Published:Monday | May 19, 2025 | 3:51 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia and Ukraine will "immediately" begin ceasefire negotiations, President Donald Trump said Monday after separate calls with the leaders of both countries meant to spur progress toward ending the three-year war. The...

Trump’s clash with the courts raises prospect of showdown over separation of powers

Published:Monday | May 19, 2025 | 12:07 AM

DENVER (AP): Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled US House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings:...

Coltan miners dig for world’s tech – and struggle regardless of who is in charge

Published:Monday | May 19, 2025 | 12:07 AM

RUBAYA (AP): Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labour by hand to extract coltan, a key mineral crucial for producing modern electronics...

Biden has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer

Published:Sunday | May 18, 2025 | 3:42 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said Sunday. Biden was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule was found. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on...

Suicide attacker in Somali capital kills 13 at a military recruitment centre

Published:Sunday | May 18, 2025 | 11:28 AM

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide bomber in the Somali capital on Sunday targeted young recruits waiting to register at a military camp, killing at least 13 and wounding 21 others, witnesses said. Mogadishu has been repeatedly targeted by the...

Mexico, Chile and Uruguay halt poultry imports from Brazil after bird flu outbreak

Published:Sunday | May 18, 2025 | 12:14 AM

SAO PAULO (AP): Mexico, Chile and Uruguay have halted poultry imports from Brazil after the country confirmed its first bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm, authorities said Saturday. On Friday, Brazil’s Agriculture and Livestock ministry said...

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