PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday as his Senate impeachment trial remains at an impasse, with Republican and Democratic leaders at odds over its format and whether witnesses should be called. Speaking at his...
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II plans to acknowledge that both Britain and her family have endured a difficult year by saying during her Christmas message that it has been a “bumpy” time. The pre-recorded message will be...
NEW YORK (AP) — A chat app that quickly became popular in the United Arab Emirates for communicating with friends and family is actually a spying tool used by the government to track its users, according to a newspaper report. The government...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Authorities in Ivory Coast have issued an arrest warrant for Guillaume Soro, prompting the ex-rebel leader and presidential hopeful to divert his plane to another country instead of returning home. The arrest...
PALEMBANG, Indonesia (AP) — A bus plunged into a ravine on Indonesia’s Sumatra island after its brakes apparently malfunctioned, killing at least 28 people and injuring 13 others, police and rescuers said Tuesday. The accident occurred...
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — At least 16 prisoners died during fighting inside a juvenile detention center in Honduras on Sunday, two days after rioting at another prison killed 18 inmates, authorities said. The latest bloody violence...
PARIS (AP): Last year, it was the yellow vest protests. This year, it’s the strikes that have crippled Paris. The Christmas holidays aren’t proving to be a lucrative – or indeed merry – time for boutiques in the capital. Or, for that matter,...
BEIRUT (AP): Syrian government forces pressed ahead yesterday with a new military assault on the country’s last rebel stronghold that began last week. The offensive has triggered a mass exodus of civilians fleeing to safer areas near the Turkish...
LAS VEGAS (AP): Investigators were going room by room yesterday at a downtown Las Vegas apartment building, where six people were killed and 13 injured in a fire over the weekend, to determine what started the blaze. City officials said at a news...
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia’s embattled prime minister defended his government’s climate policy on Monday, as authorities warned that the wildfires ravaging the country’s most populous state could fester for months....
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s governor wants to eliminate the so-called “pink tax.” Governor Andrew Cuomo said Sunday he’ll push legislation banning gender-based price disparities for similar goods and services....
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) A pileup involving more than 60 cars on a major interstate in Virginia on Sunday morning injured dozens of people, according to state police. The crash happened just before 8: 00 a.m. Sunday on westbound Interstate 64...
Boeing’s CEO is resigning amid ongoing problems at the company over the troubled Max 737 aircraft. The Chicago manufacturer said Monday that Dennis Muilenburg is stepping down immediately. The board’s current chairman David...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Tour operator Alejandro Palacios joined hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protesting in the streets early this year, wanting to believe that things would finally change in the country as upstart opposition leader...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death on Monday for the killing of Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, whose murder in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul drew sharp international...
PORT-au-PRINCE, Haiti : The Centre for Analysis and Research in Human Rights (CARDH), has urged Haitian president, Jovenel Moise to limit his time in office to February 7 next year. CARDH made the recommendation in its report on the state of human...
AP: Croatia’s conservative president will face a liberal former prime minister in a run-off election after no candidate won an outright majority in a first round of voting yesterday, near-complete results showed. Left-wing politician Zoran...
AP: Using stark ‘us vs. them’ language, President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign have begun framing his impeachment not as a judgment on his conduct, but as a referendum on how Democrats regard him and his supporters. Mere days from the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House today argued that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position by stalling House-passed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in hopes of shaping the upcoming...
CHICAGO (AP) — A shooting early today at a house party held in honour of someone who was killed in April left 13 people wounded, four of them critically, Chicago police said. The shooting stemmed from a dispute at the memorial party, Chief of...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump is blasting a prominent Christian magazine that published an editorial arguing that he should be removed from office. Trump tweeted on Friday morning that Christianity Today, an evangelical magazine founded...
NEW YORK (CMC): A Haitian-American legislator has welcomed the impeachment of United States (US) President Donald J. Trump, who has become the third US president to be impeached in the nation’s history. Trump is expected to face trial in the US...
LONDON (AP): British lawmakers gave preliminary approval Friday to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill, clearing the way for the United Kingdom (UK) to leave the European Union next month. The House of Commons voted 358-234 for the...
ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): The head of the Roman Catholic Church here, Bishop Gabriel Malzaire, is urging Dominicans to put aside their differences following “one of the most divisive general elections” in the history of the island. In his Christmas...
A Ukrainian security researcher reported finding a database with the names, phone numbers and unique user IDs of more than 267 million Facebook users — nearly all United States-based — on the open internet. That data was likely...
