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Pakistan asks Gulf allies to help ease India tensions

Published:Sunday | May 4, 2025 | 12:10 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP): Pakistan’s prime minister met Friday with envoys from Gulf allies, seeking to defuse tensions with India following last week’s deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region, his office said. In separate meetings with the...

Wisconsin governor says he’s not afraid after arrest threat

Published:Sunday | May 4, 2025 | 12:10 AM

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP): Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers said Friday that every American should be concerned about “chilling” suggestions from President Donald Trump’s top border adviser that he could be arrested over guidance the Democrat issued to...

What is a conclave? What to know about the secretive process to elect the next pope

Published:Sunday | May 4, 2025 | 12:09 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP): A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to underscore that cardinals are sequestered until they find a winner. Cardinals have no contact with the outside...

Why is the ICJ weighing in on humanitarian aid in Gaza?

Published:Sunday | May 4, 2025 | 12:09 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): The top United Nations court last Monday began hearing from 40 countries on what Israel must do to provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Last year, the UN...

Africans say a Black pope would be nice to have. But they are not too hopeful

Published:Sunday | May 4, 2025 | 12:09 AM

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP): If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is a long shot, though some are cautiously optimistic that Pope Francis’ successor could be a Black...

Haiti named among the worst countries globally for press freedom

Published:Saturday | May 3, 2025 | 12:08 AM

PORT AU PRINCE CMC): Haiti has emerged as one of the worst countries in the world with regards to press freedom, Reporters San Frontiers (RSF) reported on Friday. In its World Press Freedom Index 2025, RSF said the situation in Haiti, which had a...

ICE joins DeSantis in touting one-week record of arrests

Published:Saturday | May 3, 2025 | 12:05 AM

MIRAMAR (AP): A record 1,120 people accused of being in the US illegally were arrested in less than a week during sweep orchestrated by federal, state and local authorities in Florida, an operation officials credited on Thursday to the burgeoning...

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

Published:Saturday | May 3, 2025 | 4:51 PM

DA NANG (AP): The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its chemical legacy. Nguyen Thanh Hai, 34, is one of millions with...

Venezuela rejects UN court order to halt election in territory under dispute with Guyana

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 10:48 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government on Friday rejected a ruling from the United Nations' top court ordering the South American country to refrain from holding elections for officials who supposedly would oversee a resource-rich region...

Prince Harry loses appeal to restore his UK government-funded security detail

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 8:56 AM

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry lost his appeal Friday challenging the UK government's decision to strip him of his publicly funded security after he stepped away from royal family duties and moved to the US. The Court of Appeal ruled unanimously...

Trump’s policies loom over May Day marches

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 12:12 AM

PARIS (AP): French union leaders condemned the “Trumpization” of world politics, while in Italy, May Day protesters paraded a puppet of the American president through the streets of Turin. Across continents, hundreds of thousands turned out for...

'We reject criminality, we reject crime' – Premier

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 12:11 AM

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (CMC ): Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley has dismissed suggestions that his country is a haven for criminal activity, saying such characterisations are false and do not reflect the territory’s values or reality. Speaking...

Young resigns as chairman of PNM

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 12:11 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Outgoing prime minister, Stuart Young, Wednesday submitted his resignation as chairman of the People’s National Movement (PNM) following the party’s resounding defeat in Monday’s general election. In a letter to the...

Nurses protest delay in appointments

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 12:11 AM

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC: The Bahamas Nurses Union (BNU) has criticised the government of hiring foreign nurses even as local nurses are yet to receive their appointments dating back to 2023. In 2023, the government recruited 18 nurses from Ghana under...

‘Once again, Guyana’s position has prevailed’ -PM Ali

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 12:11 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday, unanimously reaffirmed provisional measures granted in December 2023 and told Venezuela to refrain from conducting, or preparing to conduct elections, in Guyana’s...

Justice Department ends decades-old school desegregation order

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 12:10 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating to the Civil Rights Movement should be...

No party wins majority in election

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 12:10 AM

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC: Political parties in the British Overseas territory were scrambling to form coalitions on Thursday, after no single party clinched a majority following Wednesday’s general election According two preliminary...

The Caribbean Connection

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 12:10 AM

WASHINGTON, CMC: THE CARIBBEAN region faces a growing youth employment challenge, as outdated infrastructure and limited digital skills continue to constrain economic opportunities and resilience. For much of the last decade, dependence on legacy...

Opposition MP killed in ‘targeted’ shooting

Published:Friday | May 2, 2025 | 12:09 AM

NAIROBI (AP): A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and premeditated” crime. MP Charles Were was shot on Wednesday night after his car stopped at a roundabout on a busy...

Trump national security adviser Waltz is out following Signal chat blunder in major staff shakeup

Published:Thursday | May 1, 2025 | 12:12 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House national security adviser Mike Waltz is leaving the administration just weeks after it was revealed he added a journalist to a Signal chat being used to discuss military plans, according to two people familiar with...

US Coast Guard offloads over US$12 million in illicit drugs interdicted in Caribbean Sea

Published:Thursday | May 1, 2025 | 8:55 AM

MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard on Wednesday said the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa ended Fleet Week Fort Lauderdale with the offload, at Port Everglades, of about 3,750 pounds of cocaine and marijuana, worth an estimated US$12.3...

Dozens fleeing gang violence swim across country’s longest river

Published:Thursday | May 1, 2025 | 12:07 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Dozens of people swam and waded across Haiti’s longest river on Wednesday in a desperate attempt to flee gangs that launched a fresh attack on a city in the country’s central region that has been under siege for almost a week....

Rebels recruiting youth on social media

Published:Thursday | May 1, 2025 | 12:07 AM

BOGOTA (AP): Rebel groups in Colombia are using apps like Facebook and Tik Tok to recruit children and young adults, and social media companies must do more to moderate content, the United Nations says. The UN’s top human rights official in...

Ukraine says it's ready to sign a key rare-minerals deal sought by the US

Published:Wednesday | April 30, 2025 | 12:18 PM

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is ready to sign an agreement that would give the US access to its valuable rare minerals in the hopes of ensuring continued American support for Kyiv in its grinding war with Russia, senior Ukrainian officials said...

Persad Bissessar to be sworn in on Thursday, Rowley bows out

Published:Wednesday | April 30, 2025 | 8:53 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Attorney Kamla Persad Bissessar will be sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, more than 72 hours after guiding her United National Congress (UNC)-led coalition to an emphatic victory...

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