SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber, as part of a long-anticipated safety report, revealed that more than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported during its United States rides in 2018. That figure includes 235 rapes across the company’s 1.3...
SHADNAGAR, India (AP) — Police on Friday fatally shot four men being held on suspicion of raping and killing a woman in southern India after investigators took them to the crime scene, drawing both praise and condemnation in a case that has...
WASHINGTON (AP): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bristling over a question about whether she “hates” President Donald Trump. Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference on Thursday that as a Catholic, she resents the suggestion that she...
Airbnb is taking more steps to crack down on parties and nuisance guests in the wake of a Halloween shooting at an Airbnb rental in a San Francisco suburb. The company said on Thursday that it would be banning “open-invite” parties at all of its...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) has expressed shock at allegations that Trinidad and Tobago Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has made what journalists at the Trinidad Express consider to be threats against their safety and...
NASSAU (CMC): Finance Minister Peter Turnquest has expressed “disgust”over a decision made by France to place The Bahamas on its blacklist of tax havens for lack of cooperation. Speaking on Wednesday, Turnquest, who is also deputy prime minister,...
Airbnb is taking more steps to crack down on parties and nuisance guests in the wake of a Halloween shooting at an Airbnb rental in a San Francisco suburb where five people were killed. The company said Thursday it’s banning “open...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two organisations of documentary filmmakers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday arguing that new rules requiring United States visa applicants to register their social media handles are making them fearful of publicly speaking...
The world may be heading for an even greater oversupply of oil, and that possibility — which could drive down fuel and energy prices — is hanging over members of the OPEC cartel as they head into negotiations Thursday. The oil-producing...
PARIS (AP) — The Eiffel Tower shut down, France’s vaunted high-speed trains stood still and several thousand people protested in Paris as unions launched open-ended, nationwide strikes Thursday over the government’s plan to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that the House is moving forward to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. ’’Our democracy is what is at stake,” Pelosi said. “The...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rode a white horse up a sacred mountain in his second symbolic visit in less than two months, state media reported Wednesday, as his military chief lashed out at US President Donald Trump for...
WATFORD (AP): NATO leaders professed unity on Wednesday at a summit near London – but a spat over off-the-cuff chit-chat at a royal reception rattled their show of solidarity. US President Donald Trump branded the leader of America’s northern...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani...
BARTOW, Florida (AP) — Neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, is suing the teen’s parents, family attorney, the attorney’s book publisher and prosecutors who...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s co-founders are relinquishing their executive positions just as state and federal regulators, not to mention the Department of Justice and Congress, are taking a keen interest in possible abuse of its...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment hearing quickly burst into partisan infighting Wednesday as Democrats charged that President Donald Trump must be removed from office for enlisting foreign interference...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government launched a new programme on Tuesday to provide an HIV prevention drug for free to people who need the protection but have no insurance to pay for it. Taking certain anti-HIV drugs every day dramatically...
SACRAMENTO, California (AP): Kamala Harris, the American senator of Jamaican ancestry, told supporters on Tuesday that she was ending her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. “I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Protected by police patrols, thousands of Haitian children began to return to school Monday after months of violent unrest forced schools to shut around the country. Some schools were about a quarter full in response to the...
LONDON (AP): United states President Donald Trump on Tuesday took aim at President Emmanuel Macron over the French leader’s criticism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and criticised the other members of the military alliance for...
LONDON (AP): United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed the likelihood of reaching a US-China trade deal before next year’s elections — and then shrugged off the tailspin that his remarks caused in the stock market. Speaking in...
HARARE(AP): About half of Zimbabwe’s population faces severe hunger amid a devastating drought and economic collapse, the United Nations (UN) said Tuesday, noting a “vicious cycle of skyrocketing malnutrition that’s hitting women and children...
ROSEAU (AP): Protesters trying to cancel national elections have blocked roads leading to the main airport on the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica. Supporters of the opposition United Workers’ Party set up burning roadblocks on the two main...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York on Tuesday upheld the legality of congressional subpoenas seeking President Donald Trump’s banking records but said sensitive personal information should be protected. A three-judge...
