BEIJING (AP) — China has sentenced the former president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, to 13 years and six months in prison on charges of accepting more than $2 million in bribes. Meng was elected president of the international police...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Regional officials in Ethiopia on Tuesday confirmed 10 deaths and 250 people injured after a wooden platform collapsed during a religious event the day before. Thousands of people attended the colourful Epiphany...
WUHAN, China (AP) — Face masks sold out and temperature checks at airports and train stations became the new norm as China strove Tuesday to control the outbreak of a new virus that has reached four other countries and territories and...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Prime Minister Gaston Browne yesterday said he had dismissed his agriculture minister, Dean Jonas, after indicating that he had for more than six months sought to dissuade the former cabinet minister “from taking decisions that are...
BANGKOK (AP): Unhealthy levels of smog have choked Bangkok for more than a week, as the Thai capital’s residents fume over the ineffectiveness of government measures to combat the problem. As thick haze blanketed the city yesterday, pollution...
BEIJING (AP): China reported a sharp rise in the number of people infected with a new coronavirus yesterday, including the first cases in the capital. The outbreak coincides with the country’s busiest travel period, as millions board trains and...
BAGHDAD (AP): Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live rounds during clashes with anti-government protesters overnight and yesterday morning in Baghdad, wounding at least 13 demonstrators and prompting authorities to close key streets and...
TOKYO (AP): Japan’s prime minister said yesterday that his country will form a space defence unit to protect itself from potential threats as rivals develop missiles and other technology, and the new unit will work closely with its American...
BEIJING (AP) — The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possibility that it could spread more quickly and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s legal team asserted Monday that he did “absolutely nothing wrong,” urging the Senate to swiftly reject an impeachment case that it called “flimsy” and a “dangerous...
LONDON (AP) — Google’s chief executive called Monday for a balanced approach to regulating artificial intelligence, telling a European audience that the technology brings benefits but also “negative consequences.” Sundar...
MOSCOW (AP) — A heating pipe burst Monday in a small Russian hotel, flooding rooms with boiling water that killed five people and left six others injured in the central city of Perm, emergency officials said. The nine-room hotel was located...
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry took aim at the journalists who have dissected his life since the day he was born as he expressed regret for the way he has had to step down from royal duties. In a personal speech that referenced his late mother,...
PENANG, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mainly rich countries since the third quarter last year, with the environment minister warning on Monday that those who want to make the country a rubbish...
HAMILTON (CMC): A Trinidadian communications firm worker fatally stabbed in Bermuda more than 13 years ago was lured to his death by an ex-girlfriend, a Supreme Court jury has been told. Katrina Burgess and Cleveland Rogers, who are siblings, are...
LAS TUNAS (AP): Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said he does not believe the Trump administration would drop sanctions on the island in exchange for concessions from his government. The Trump administration says it has been tightening sanctions...
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse says he wants to use his new power to rule by executive order to reform the constitution and make his country easier to govern. In a statement last Friday, Moïse said he was negotiating with opposition leaders to...
Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaidó has travelled to Colombia to participate alongside US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a regional counterterrorism meeting – a new show of support by the Trump administration for the man it says is the...
SAN JUAN (AP): People in a southern Puerto Rico city discovered a warehouse filled with water, cots and other unused emergency supplies, then set off a social media uproar on Saturday when they broke in to retrieve goods as the area struggles to...
ARNOLD, Missouri (AP): A couple who had been together for nearly 65 years have died on the same day at a St Louis-area nursing home. Jack and Harriet Morrison’s beds were placed next to each other in their final hours, allowing them to hold hands,...
LYON (AP): One of the first people to notice Bernard Preynat’s unhealthy obsession for young boys was the supervisor at the seminary where, still a teen, the future priest started training for his career in the church. “At 14, 15 years old, I...
LONDON (AP): Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have made their choice: a radical break from palace protocol, constant press intrusion, and a lavishly funded lifestyle. In exchange, they get personal freedom – the opportunity to start fresh in...
WASHINGTON (AP): Advocates for and against President Donald Trump gave no ground yesterday on his Senate impeachment trial, digging in on whether a crime is required for his conviction and removal and whether witnesses will be called. But even as...
EL TERRÓN (AP): Bibles rest on a wooden altar next to percussion instruments – a guiro and a drum – in the room where a religious sect allegedly forced a pregnant woman and five of her children to walk through fire in this remote hamlet. The...
