WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee sued the Trump administration in federal court Tuesday for access to President Donald Trump’s tax returns, setting up a legal showdown over the records. The House Ways and Means Committee...
BERLIN (AP): Efforts by world powers to preserve a 2015 landmark nuclear deal with Iran grew more complicated on Monday with confirmation that Tehran had breached the pact’s limitations on stockpiles of low-enriched uranium. The announcement by...
MOSCOW (AP): Russia’s opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been sentenced to 10 days in jail on charges of taking part in an unsanctioned rally. A court in Moscow on Monday found Navalny guilty of violating rules for holding a rally last month...
LONDON (AP): Police and airline officials say a stowaway fell from the landing gear of a jet as it approached London’s Heathrow Airport after a nine-hour flight from Nairobi. The Metropolitan Police force says the body of an unidentified man was...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese troops entered on Monday refugee settlements in a town near the Syrian border to make sure that brick and concrete walls have been torn down, Lebanon’s state-run news agency said. Lebanese authorities have undertaken their...
LONDON (AP) — A stowaway fell from the undercarriage of a jet as it approached Heathrow Airport after a 9-hour flight from Nairobi, landing in a south London garden, police and airline officials said Monday. The Metropolitan Police force said...
LONDON (AP) — British Treasury chief Philip Hammond on Monday warned the two contenders to become the country’s next prime that their expensive spending promises will be impossible to deliver if the U.K. crashes out of the European...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines says mechanics are defying a court order and continuing a work slowdown that is disrupting flights during the busy summer travel season. The mechanics’ unions say American is at fault. They say...
HONG KONG (AP) — A group of protesters in Hong Kong has taken over the legislative chamber, spray-painting slogans on the wall and over the territory’s emblem. Some stood on the desks of lawmakers Friday night while others climbed up to...
ABU DHABI (AP): UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres took his global message urging immediate climate action to officials gathered in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, where production of hydrocarbons remains a key driver of the economy....
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico has presented with much fanfare its new National Guard, which is supposed to stem endemic violence and restore peace in the country. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told hundreds of National Guard members...
BRUSSELS (AP): European Union leaders struggled on Sunday to narrow down a list of candidates for key posts at the helm of the 28-nation bloc amid deep divisions over how to best balance political, geographic, and gender considerations. Some five...
SEOUL (AP): South Koreans watched the latest meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Sunday with a mixture of hope and scepticism, wondering whether the impromptu summit will be enough to break an impasse in...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): A top US official says the death in custody of a Venezuelan navy captain shows that nobody’s safe in the crisis-wracked nation under President Nicolás Maduro. Sunday’s tweet from US Assistant Secretary of State Kimberly...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The campaign of Jamaican American United States Democratic Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, announced last night it raised US$2 million in 24 hours after her first televised presidential debate Thursday night in...
CAIRO (AP) — In the desert of western Libya, hundreds of African migrants were held for months in a hangar filled with maggot-covered garbage and sewage. They shared a couple of buckets of water between them and barely survived on one meal a...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Judge Haywood S...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A magistrate Friday sentenced a Jamaican man to four years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to breaking into business places and stealing the jewellery he had previously sold to them nearly four years ago....
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government plans to drop criminal penalties for the possession and use of drugs in small quantities to battle addiction, but stressed the move is not akin to legalising narcotics. Malaysia has...
MADRID (AP) — Firefighters and aircraft battled for a third straight day Friday to contain a major wildfire that started in a pile of chicken dung and raced across the hills of northeastern Spain amid a heat wave. Authorities said more than...
Jamaica-born Rose Hudson-Wilkin has been appointed as the Church of England’s first black female bishop. The UK Guardian is reporting that Hudson-Wilkin, the chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, was announced as the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether President Donald Trump can end an Obama-era program shielding young immigrants from deportation. The justices’ order Friday sets up high-stakes legal arguments in the fall, with a...
BRUSSELS (AP): NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] allies gave the US no firm commitments that they will participate in a global effort to secure international waterways against threats from Iran, acting Defence Secretary Mark Esper said...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A terror threat advisory issued for Trinidad and Tobago by the United Kingdom has been downgraded. In a press release on Thursday, the Ministry of National Security said the UK informed National Security...
ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. health officials say the flu vaccine has again turned out to be a big disappointment. The vaccine didn’t work against a flu bug that popped up halfway through the flu season. Figures released Thursday show the...
