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PM Carney shakes up Cabinet and names a new foreign minister

Published:Wednesday | May 14, 2025 | 12:11 AM

TORONTO (AP): Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a major Cabinet shakeup, including a new foreign minister, on Tuesday as he shapes a newly re-elected Liberal government. Carney, who replaced Justin Trudeau earlier this year and won...

Gov’t bans the largest ‘Reich citizen’ group and arrests 4 leaders

Published:Wednesday | May 14, 2025 | 12:06 AM

BERLIN (AP): The German government has banned the largest ‘Reich citizen’ group, an extremist far-right organisation that calls itself the ‘Kingdom of Germany’ and seeks to undermine the country’s democratic order, and arrested four of its leaders...

Detained ex-president Duterte wins mayoral race in his home city

Published:Wednesday | May 14, 2025 | 12:06 AM

MANILA (AP): Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was elected as mayor in his home city by a landslide, official results showed Tuesday, despite his detention by the International Criminal Court. The Davao election board proclaimed Duterte...

Judge reduces Menendez brothers' murder sentences, putting them a step closer to freedom

Published:Tuesday | May 13, 2025 | 8:49 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik and Lyle Menendez will have a new shot at freedom after 35 years behind bars for murdering their parents, a judge ruled Tuesday. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic reduced the brothers' sentences from...

UN agency confirms assisting US in returning Caribbean migrants voluntarily

Published:Tuesday | May 13, 2025 | 5:22 PM

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) has confirmed that it has been asked by the Donald Trump administration to help undocumented Caribbean and other migrants to return to their home countries,...

6 Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia get prison terms up to nearly 11 years

Published:Tuesday | May 13, 2025 | 12:10 AM

LONDON (AP): Six Bulgarians convicted of carrying out a sophisticated spying operation for Russia were sentenced by a London judge Monday to prison terms pf up to nearly 11 years. The group that used Hollywood code names discussed kidnapping or...

Episcopal Church says it won’t help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status in US

Published:Tuesday | May 13, 2025 | 12:09 AM

The Episcopal Church’s migration service is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status, citing the church’s longstanding “commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.” Presiding...

Kurdish militant group PKK to disarm, disband

Published:Tuesday | May 13, 2025 | 12:09 AM

ANKARA, Turkey (AP): The Kurdish militant group PKK announced Monday that it is disbanding and renouncing armed conflict as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of hostilities. The decision by the PKK, or Kurdistan...

Ireland to require visas of T&T nationals

Published:Tuesday | May 13, 2025 | 12:09 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC): Nationals of Trinidad and Tobago will now need to obtain a visa for travel to Ireland. The announcement was made on Friday by Ireland’s Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan and Minister of State for Migration Colm...

Court awards monetary compensation to woman of Haitian parentage

Published:Tuesday | May 13, 2025 | 12:09 AM

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): The Supreme Court has awarded US$25,000 to a woman, born here to undocumented Haitian parents, after it determined that her Constitutional rights were breached when she was detained for 30 days in 2018 without charge,...

Heavy rains causing widespread destruction in Haiti

Published:Monday | May 12, 2025 | 8:41 PM

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations Monday said that heavy rains over the past few days have caused widespread flooding, damaging homes, crops and vital infrastructure in Haiti’s Nord-Est Department. Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesperson for...

Judge refuses to block IRS from sharing tax data to identify and deport people illegally in the US

Published:Monday | May 12, 2025 | 7:47 PM

A federal judge on Monday refused to block the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from sharing immigrants' tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the US. In a win for...

Whoops, waves, tears: Faithful react to Pope Leo’s first Sunday blessing

Published:Monday | May 12, 2025 | 12:06 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP): Tens of thousands of faithful Catholics gathered in St. Peter’s Square to watch Pope Leo XIV deliver the first Sunday blessing of his pontificate exactly at noon. They unfurled flags from around the world, waved back as the...

Dutch-led team digitises documents to preserve Jewish history in the Caribbean

Published:Monday | May 12, 2025 | 12:06 AM

AMSTERDAM (AP): The fire that caused significant damage in April to historic buildings in Suriname’s capital city was not the only threat facing the nearby Neveh Shalom Synagogue. As firefighters battled to save the historic city centre of...

Catholic Chicagoans celebrate rise of native son

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2025 | 12:16 AM

CHICAGO (AP): After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signalling that a pope had been chosen, students in every classroom at The Frances Xavier Warde School in Chicago had their eyes glued to TV screens. As the image of the new...

He is now Pope Leo XIV, but Peruvians know him as the priest who went ‘from Chicago to Chiclayo’

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2025 | 12:15 AM

CHICLAYO, Peru (AP): The people of northern Peru call him ‘el obispo’. Sometimes he is also ‘Padre Prevost’. Maybe when the shock wears off, they will get used to his new title, Pope Leo XIV. Waiters, taxi drivers, teachers and others – faithful or...

Trump has threatened a 100% tariff on movies made outside the US. Here’s what we know

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2025 | 12:15 AM

NEW YORK (AP): United States President Donald Trump is eyeing Hollywood for his next round of tariffs, threatening to levy all films produced outside the US at a steep rate of 100 per cent. Last weekend, Trump accused other countries of “stealing...

Here’s why India and Pakistan don’t fight wars like other countries

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2025 | 12:14 AM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP): India and Pakistan have fought three full-scale wars since they gained independence from Britain in 1947. They’ve also had dozens of skirmishes and conflicts, including one atop a glacier dubbed the coldest and highest-...

Partition’s troubled legacy

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2025 | 12:13 AM

NEW DELHI (AP): India and Pakistan’s latest military conflict has expanded, days after India carried out airstrikes in Pakistan that followed an attack by gunmen on tourists in India-controlled Kashmir last month. The two nuclear-armed rivals have...

Call made for Grenada to legalise abortion under all circumstances

Published:Friday | May 9, 2025 | 2:29 PM

GENEVA, CMC – Grenada is being urged to amend its Criminal Code to legalise abortion under all circumstances, which is among the 171 recommendations suggested to the Caribbean island during its 2025 Universal Periodic Review held in Geneva,...

Trinidadian PM reassures country she is in good health

Published:Friday | May 9, 2025 | 10:53 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC -Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad Bissessar has once again sought to assure the population that she is in “good health” and that she intends on carrying out her responsibilities as head of a new...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates first Mass as pope and calls his election both a cross and a blessing

Published:Friday | May 9, 2025 | 8:43 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history's first US-born pontiff, said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass as the head of the Catholic Church. Leo spoke off-the-cuff in English in the...

OECS leaders at odds over CBI programme

Published:Friday | May 9, 2025 | 12:10 AM

ST JOHN’S (CMC): Two leaders from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are at odds over the benefit of the controversial Citizenship By Investment (CBI) programme that some regional countries use to attract foreign investments....

Canadian expert joins investigation into death of 11-year-old

Published:Friday | May 9, 2025 | 12:09 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Ministry of Home Affairs has announced the appointment of a Canadian investigator to assist with the ongoing probe into the death of 11-year-old Adriana Younge. The move is in line with a commitment made by President Dr...

Airlines suspend flight operations, close 24 airports as Pakistan resumes flights nationwide

Published:Friday | May 9, 2025 | 12:08 AM

NEW DELHI (AP): Airlines in India have suspended flight operations from two dozen airports across northern and western regions of the country amid heightened tensions with Pakistan. India’s Civil Aviation Ministry late Thursday confirmed in a...

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