HANOI, Vietnam (AP): Vietnam has approved a US$1.5 billion proposal by the Trump Organization and its Vietnamese partner to build golf courses, hotels and real estate projects in the Southeast Asian country, state-run media reported Friday. The...
DIKWA, Nigeria (AP): Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced...
JERUSALEM (AP): The crisis in Gaza has reached one of its darkest periods, as Israel blocks all food and supplies from entering the territory and continues an intensifying bombardment campaign. Humanitarian officials caution that famine threatens...
NEW YORK (AP): New York University said it would deny a diploma to a student who used a graduation speech to condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinians and what he described as US “complicity in this genocide”. Logan Rozos’s speech last Wednesday for...
For more than two decades, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was one of hip-hop’s most opportunistic entrepreneurs, spinning his hitmaking talents into a broad business empire that included a record label, a fashion brand, a TV network, deals with liquor...
JERUSALEM (AP): Israel said Saturday it launched a major military operation in the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a negotiating team to remain in Qatar for indirect talks...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — More than 2,000 people were ordered to evacuate rural areas north of Argentina's capital after several days of heavy rainfall flooded highways, farmlands and entire neighbourhoods. A bus with 44 passengers was...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Police have launched an investigation after an improvised explosive device was thrown into the compound of the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost early Saturday morning, blowing a gate off its hinges. The incident occurred...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food, authorities said...
ST LOUIS (AP) — Storm systems sweeping across parts of the US Midwest and South have left at least 23 people dead, many of them in Kentucky, where what appeared to be a devastating tornado crumbled buildings and flipped over a car on an interstate...
WASHINGTON (AP): Israel Vail’s entire life in the small western Guatemalan town of Cajolá is built off the money that his three children send home from the United States. The money from their construction jobs paid for the two-storey white home...
WASHINGTON, (CMC): A coalition of 20 attorneys general says they “stand together” to defend the birthright citizenship for Caribbean and other immigrants as the United States Supreme Court Thursday heard oral arguments defending the nationwide...
NEW DELHI (AP): Indian authorities allegedly forced dozens of Rohingya refugees off a naval vessel into the sea near Myanmar last week after providing them with life jackets, a United Nations agency, family members of the refugees and their lawyer...
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, (CMC): Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew has hailed the passage of the Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name (Amendment) Bill, describing as a “foundational component” in the country’s transformation towards a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has asked for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with immigration roundups across the country, and the Pentagon is reviewing the unusual request, a US official confirmed to The Associated...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The United Nations’ humanitarian chief has defended using the term “genocide” to describe what aid workers are trying to prevent in Gaza, saying the world should not make the same mistakes seen in past violations of...
ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): The Dominica Association of Teachers (DAT) says its members have rejected the latest salary offer from the government and is preparing a new proposal to be submitted to the government’s negotiating team (GNT). DAT president...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP): El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he’s pushing forward a “foreign agents” bill that critics say would deal another blow to civil society and independent journalistic organizations as the popular president...
BEIJING (AP): China will allow visa-free entry for nationals of five Latin American countries for one year to boost closer connections with the region. Starting June 1, citizens of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay will be allowed to...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP): Argentina’s right-wing President Javier Milei issued a decree on Wednesday curbing immigration to the South American nation, a move coinciding with the immigration restrictions put in place by the Trump administration...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations on Thursday forecast slower global economic growth this year and next, pointing to the impact of the surge in US tariffs and increasing trade tensions. UN economists also cited the volatile geopolitical...
DOHA (AP): President Donald Trump said Wednesday he urgently wants “to make a deal” with Iran to wind down its nuclear programme but Tehran must end its support of proxy groups throughout the Mideast as part of any potential agreement. Trump, who...
ABUJA (AP): As news emerged this week about hundreds of Burkina Faso citizens being killed separately by both jihadi groups and government forces, images of Burkina Faso’s junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore were plastered over Russian state media...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the US last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration. Mexican...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former food delivery driver pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to steal more than $2.5 million from DoorDash by getting the company to pay for deliveries that never occurred, federal prosecutors said. Sayee Chaitanya...
