NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has identified and removed nearly 6,000 accounts that it said were part of a coordinated effort by Saudi government agencies and individuals to advance the country’s geopolitical interests. Separately, Facebook...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A group of Pakistani doctors blames a recent outbreak of HIV among children in a southern city on poor healthcare practices such as using dirty needles and contaminated blood, according to a statement released Friday. The...
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 Friday morning that the magazine, Christianity Today, an...
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers gave preliminary approval Friday to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill, clearing the way for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union next month. The House of Commons voted 358-234 for...
LONDON (AP) — An American diplomat’s wife who left Britain after being involved in a fatal road accident that killed a British teenager has been charged, British prosecutors said Friday. British police say 19-year-old motorcycle rider...
LONDON (AP) — Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has been admitted to a London hospital “as a precautionary measure,” Buckingham Palace said Friday. The palace said in a statement the 98-year-old Philip was admitted to...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged lawmakers on Friday to back his Brexit bill to end the “acrimony and anguish” that has consumed the country since it voted in 2016 to leave the European Union. Johnson...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – As of December 23, the Keith Rowley-led administration will make a proclamation that will decriminalise small amounts of marijuana. Prime Minister Rowley, who made the announcement during Thursday’s...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Police banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day Friday and cut internet services to try to stop growing protests against a new citizenship law that have left eight people dead...
BRUSSELS (AP): Airbnb scored a big win in its long-standing fight with French hoteliers as the European Union’s (EU) highest court rejected Thursday an argument that Airbnb should be subject to the strict rules that govern French real-estate agents...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing US$1 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to support ongoing humanitarian operations in Haiti. This funding will pay for the WFP...
LIVERPOOL, England (AP): Scarlet shackles sit peacefully on display in front of a sad, gray backdrop. The now rusted leg irons once locked human ankles during 18th-century voyages from Africa to some European port, then to the Americas. Who the...
WASHINGTON (AP): The top Senate Republican on Thursday denounced the “most unfair” House impeachment of President Donald Trump and reassured Trump and his supporters that “moments like this are why the United States Senate exists”. Signalling in...
NASSAU (CMC): A leading global private lender, Kennedy Funding, has closed a loan of US$3 million to local company Exuberant Development Inc to complete construction for a residential community located on Exuma Island. Proceeds of the loan will be...
WASHINGTON - The US Congress voted on Thursday to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21 across the country, a move intended to stem the rising tide of youth vaping. Passed by the Senate as part of a wider budgetary...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Airbnb scored a big win in its long-standing fight with French hoteliers as the European Union’s highest court rejected Thursday an argument that Airbnb should be subject to the strict rules that govern French real...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that United States President Donald Trump was impeached for “far-fetched” reasons, calling the move by Democrats a continuation of their fight against the Republican...
LONDON (AP) —Queen Elizabeth II formally opened a new session of Britain’s Parliament on Thursday with a speech laying out Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to use his commanding majority to take the United Kingdom out of...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A man who may have been dreaming of a “green” Christmas found himself inside the gray walls of a Tennessee jail. According to court documents, state police caught Somphone Temmeraj, 57, with more than...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump woke up in the White House Wednesday morning and expressed utter disbelief that he will likely become just the third US president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. With the House taking up two...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): Moderate opposition politicians as well as representatives of civil society organisations met here on Tuesday to discuss a “peaceful and consensual solution” to the ongoing economic and political crisis in the French-speaking...
ROSEAU (CMC): Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Tuesday praised Dominicans for fighting against “external intervention” as he joined two other regional leaders in celebrating the victory of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit in the...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Riot police clashed with protesters in the streets Wednesday night outside a soccer match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, as authorities sought to keep Catalonia’s separatist movement from disrupting the game...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigrants convicted of illegally re-entering the United States, driving drunk or committing domestic violence will be barred from claiming asylum under a proposed regulation announced Wednesday by the Trump administration....
