PERTH, Australia (AP) — Sydney will set off its iconic New Year’s Eve fireworks after being granted an exemption to a total fire ban Monday, with other Australian cities cancelling their celebrations due to a worsening wildfire risk....
Kaitlyn Kong thought she had been punched hard in the abdomen as she stood among thousands of people in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, as the new year arrived a year ago. Her best friend, standing next to her, thought Kong had been stabbed as...
CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced 27 members of the country’s security forces to death for torturing and killing a detained protester during the uprising against longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir earlier this year. The...
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his research, state media said. He...
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations has hailed what it describes as “fresh impetus” in the fight against the climate emergency that has had disproportionate, negative effect on the Caribbean, as well as other countries. The COP25 climate...
By now, the young couple thought they’d be in the United States. Somewhere, anywhere, in the United States. They thought they’d have jobs – he’d work in construction, maybe she’d be a waitress. They thought they’d be safe. They thought they’d have...
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (AP): Congregants shot and killed a man who opened fire in a church near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, killing the attacker, police said. A person shot by the suspect also died and a second parishioner has life-threatening...
The new year will bring new charges for some owners of electric vehicles as an increasing number of states seek to plug in to fresh revenue sources to offset forgone gas taxes. In Hawaii, the charge will be $50. In Kansas, $100. In Alabama and Ohio...
The government of France has issued an advisory to persons planning to travel to Haiti, asking them to postpone their trip to the French-speaking Caribbean nation. French nationals already in Haiti have also been warned to be very careful. The...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban’s ruling council agreed Sunday to a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan, providing a window in which a peace agreement with the United States can be signed, officials from the insurgent group said....
LONDON (AP) — A group of politicians from Britain’s opposition Labour Party have called for “fundamental change” within their party’s leadership. The comments follow a parliamentary election earlier this month that...
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (AP) — Two people were killed in a shooting at a church near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday morning and a third person has been taken to a hospital in critical condition, officials said. MedStar Mobile Healthcare...
The new year will bring new charges for some owners of electric vehicles, as an increasing number of states seek to plug in to fresh revenue sources to offset forgone gas taxes. In Hawaii, the charge will be $50. In Kansas, $100. In Alabama and...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio doctor accused of ordering drug overdoses in the deaths of 25 hospital patients has sued his former employer for defamation, arguing that he did nothing wrong and did not deviate from hospital policy on end-of-...
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Hundreds of people plunged into the chilly ocean at a Massachusetts beach on Saturday to honour Peter Frates, the former college baseball player whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped spread the...
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Sydney’s iconic New Year’s Eve fireworks will go ahead despite the wildfire crisis to show the world Australia’s resiliency, the prime minister said, while authorities on Sunday braced for conditions...
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): A United Nations (UN) humanitarian agency says deteriorating economic conditions this year, including low growth rate, high inflation and an increase in the cost of basic food items, have had a negative impact on the...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Finance Minister Winston Jordan has filed a lawsuit against the Kaieteur News and its editor Adam Harris, claiming he had been libelled by a story carried by the newspaper earlier this year. Jordan is seeking damages of more than...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Police are investigating the murders of Vivekanand Narpatty, 71, and another person after their decomposing bodies were found at the now defunct Sun Splash Hotel in Corentyne, east of here on Friday. Police said that Narpatty, a...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP): Chile’s human rights watchdog is calling for an investigation into the death of a man during anti-government protests. The death during clashes between police and protesters on Friday raised the number of those killed during...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP): Algeria’s newly elected president reached beyond the political class yesterday to name educator and diplomat Abdelaziz Djerad as prime minister. Djerad said his top challenge is “recovering confidence in our society”, the...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP): A truck bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia’s capital yesterday morning, killing at least 78 people, including many students, authorities said. It was the worst attack in Mogadishu in more than two years...
SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP): As 2020 arrives, New Mexico is raising its minimum wage, adding protections against surprise medical billing and allowing more people to remove their past criminal records from public view. New laws that take effect on...
BEIRUT (AP): A Syrian opposition leader called Friday on the international community to help millions of civilians in the country’s last rebel-held stronghold amid a crushing government offensive, calling it a “disaster area.” After weeks of...
ANKARA, (AP): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday unveiled prototypes of a domestically produced electric car, putting him closer to fulfilling a long-held dream of building Turkey’s first ‘national’ automobile. Erdogan showcased the...
