AP: Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a massive overhaul of the State Department on Tuesday, with plans to reduce staff in the US by 15 per cent while closing and consolidating more than 100 bureaus worldwide as part of the Trump...
BANGKOK (AP): Transnational organised crime groups in East and Southeast Asia are spreading their lucrative scam operations across the globe in response to increased crackdowns by authorities, according to a U.N. report issued on Monday. For...
SRINAGAR, India (AP): Gunmen shot dead at least 26 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Tuesday, in what appeared to be a major shift in the regional conflict in which tourists have largely been spared. Police described...
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC): The Archbishop of Port-of-Spain, Charles Jason Gordon, said that with the death of Pope Francis on Monday “we have lost a true shepherd” and a “man of incomparable depth and unwavering commitment to Christ”. Pope...
CAIRO (AP): A paramilitary group in Sudan attacked a city in the western Darfur region, killing more than 30 people, an activist group said, in the latest deadly offensive on an area that is home to hundreds of thousands of displaced people. The...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP): Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela on Sunday, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for what...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): At least three Haitian soldiers were killed in what appeared to be a gang ambush in a town on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital on Sunday, Haitian authorities confirmed. The area of Kenscoff has been under heavy fire in...
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Here are the key things to know about the death of the Argentine pontiff, history’s first from Latin America, who presided over the Catholic Church for more than 12 years. THE...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has ordered city officials to temporarily halt a plan allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex ahead of a hearing later this week. In a written order Monday, Judge...
CHITUNGWIZA (AP): A pair of white hands blinding a black face. A smiling coloniser with a Bible, crushing the skull of a screaming native with his boot. Chained men in gold mines, and a pregnant woman. These stone sculptures from Zimbabwe will...
Sam Rutledge and his wife have a baby due in mid-July, so they thought they had a few more months to research and buy the gear they’ll need. But President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement in early April turned the couple’s slow walk into a sprint...
WASHINGTON (AP): About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy were released Friday, including handwritten notes by the gunman, who said the Democratic presidential candidate “must be disposed of” and...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Trump administration’s move to classify thousands of living immigrants as dead and cancel their Social Security numbers is an escalation of the president’s crackdown on people who were legally allowed to live in the United...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachussetts (AP): In a high-stakes standoff, United States President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze US$2.2 billion in federal research grants for Harvard University, which is pushing back on demands for changes to...
WASHINGTON (AP): More than 1,000 international students have had their visas or legal status revoked in recent weeks, and several have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly...
SAN JUAN (AP): Power was restored to 98.8 per cent of customers early Friday after an islandwide blackout hit Puerto earlier this week, authorities said. More than 1.45 million customers had electricity less than 48 hours after the outage hit,...
PHNOM PENH (AP): Chinese President Xi Jinping capped a three-nation Southeast Asia tour in Cambodia on Friday, promoting Beijing’s reliability as the region faces economic uncertainty due to US President Donald Trump’s tariff proposals. China has...
NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a required step as prosecutors work to make good on the Trump administration's order to seek the death penalty...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — Florida State University Police Chief Jason Trumbower says two people were killed and at least five wounded in shooting at Florida State University. The two deaths are not students at the university, but the shooter is...
LONDON (AP): The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the Scottish government. The court...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An islandwide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the largely Catholic residents of the US territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend, a power company spokesman said. All 1.4 million clients on the island...
DEIR AL-BALAH(AP): An Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing a medic and wounding nine other people, a hospital spokesman said. The strike hit the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the Muwasi area...
Peru Gaza strip united states LIMA, Peru (AP): A Peruvian court on Tuesday sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison for laundering funds received from Brazilian construction giant...
Lebanon BEIRUT (AP): Lebanon’s president said Monday that the disarmament of the militant group Hezbollah will come through negotiations as part of a national defence strategy and not through “force.” The Lebanese government has made a decision...
SAN DIEGO, CMC: The California-based Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) has welcomed a United States federal judge’s temporary halt to the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke the legal status and work permits of half a million people who came to...
