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WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States says it supports the statement issued by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries in which the 15-member regional integration grouping strongly condemned recent reports that criminal gangs in Haiti are...

GOMA (AP): At least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in Congo’s conflict-battered east, authorities said Saturday. The government traded blame with Rwanda-backed rebels over who was responsible for the violence that quickly escalated the...

AP: President Donald Trump bitterly attacked 60 Minutes shortly after the CBS news magazine broadcast stories on Ukraine and Greenland on Sunday, saying the network was out of control and should “pay a big price” for going after him. “Almost every...

VATICAN CITY (AP) A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Happy Palm Sunday, Happy Holy Week”, in yet another reassuring public sign of his recovery from a life-...

MEXICO CITY (AP) It’s 4 p.m. on a recent Sunday afternoon, and a pavilion of towering windows in a Mexico City urban park is nearly packed. The public is diverse, but everyone here wants the same thing, to dance freely, at no cost, without...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP): As they sat inside a helicopter shortly before a flight over the towering skyscrapers of New York City, Agustin Escobar flashed a thumbs-up while his wife and children beamed big smiles. A trip that was intended to celebrate...

The Trump administration late Friday said they would exclude electronics like smartphones and laptops from "reciprocal" tariffs, a move that could help keep the prices down for popular consumer electronics that aren't usually made in the US. It...

DAKAR (AP): Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the UN children’s agency said Friday, warning that existing funding gaps meant that hundreds of...

LONDON (AP) — The UK government on Friday called an emergency weekend session of Parliament to pass legislation aimed at saving the country's last factory that makes steel directly from raw materials, a move that has been widely called for since...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has moved to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead, cancelling their Social Security numbers and effectively wiping out their ability to work or receive benefits in an effort to get them to...

SANTO DOMINGO, (AP): Memorials were taking place Thursday for a merengue star and others killed when a cement roof collapsed at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic, as the number of dead surged to 221 and crews searched for more bodies...