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Published:Monday | March 31, 2025 | 8:30 AM

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that "I'm not joking" about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country...

Published:Monday | March 31, 2025 | 12:07 AM

SAN JUAN (AP): An abrupt announcement rattled members of a little-known UN agency based in Jamaica that has protected international deep-sea waters for more than 30 years. The Metals Company in Vancouver, Canada, said late Thursday that it is...

Published:Monday | March 31, 2025 | 7:02 AM

SANTIAGO: At its first board meeting of 2025, Trinidad and Tobago assumed the chairmanship of the board of directors of CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Trinidad and Tobago minister of finance, Vishnu Dhanpaul, will...

Published:Monday | March 31, 2025 | 12:07 AM

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Africa’s leading multilateral financial institution, made history when it broke ground on its first-ever state-of-the-art Afreximbank African Trade Centre (AATC) in the Caribbean, marking a pivotal moment...

Published:Monday | March 31, 2025 | 12:07 AM

MANDALAY (AP): The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after a massive earthquake struck...

Published:Monday | March 31, 2025 | 12:06 AM

DEIR AL-BALAH (AP): Palestinians on the Gaza Strip had little to celebrate Sunday as they marked the normally festive Eid al-Fitr with rapidly dwindling food supplies and renewed fighting in the Israel-Hamas war. Israeli strikes killed at least 19...

Published:Sunday | March 30, 2025 | 4:47 PM

BOSTON, Massachusetts, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says it has collaborated with other US federal law enforcement partners in apprehending 370 illegal immigrants, including Jamaicans, in...

Published:Sunday | March 30, 2025 | 11:23 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — US immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive...

Published:Sunday | March 30, 2025 | 3:33 AM

EVERETT, Mass. (AP) For years, the mayor of a Boston suburb dreaded Wednesdays. That was the day when a local weekly would publish shocking allegations that he was on the take, sexually harassing women or under investigation by the FBI. Friends...

Published:Sunday | March 30, 2025 | 3:34 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): A man who battled childhood cancer has received the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells, in a study aimed at restoring the fertility of cancer’s youngest survivors. Jaiwen Hsu was 11 when a leg injury turned out...

Published:Saturday | March 29, 2025 | 5:48 PM

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — A small plane travelling from Iowa to Minnesota crashed Saturday in a residential area of a Minneapolis suburb, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Officials did not immediately provide any information about...

Published:Saturday | March 29, 2025 | 11:43 AM

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's ruling military said Saturday on state television that the confirmed death toll from a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake rose to 1,644, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that...

Published:Saturday | March 29, 2025 | 10:53 AM

A US passenger flight preparing to leave the nation's capital and an incoming military jet received instructions to divert and prevent a possible collision, officials said. Delta Air Lines Flight 2983 was cleared for takeoff at Ronald Reagan...

Published:Saturday | March 29, 2025 | 12:08 AM

BANGKOK (AP): A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand on Friday, destroying buildings, a bridge and a dam. At least 144 people were killed in Myanmar, where photos and video from two hard-hit cities showed extensive damage....

Published:Saturday | March 29, 2025 | 12:07 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th-century wartime law, while a court fight continues. The emergency appeal to the...

Published:Saturday | March 29, 2025 | 12:07 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The government of China has expressed displeasure with the stance taken by President Irfaan Ali concerning the country’s relationship with The United States and comments made during the visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio...

Published:Saturday | March 29, 2025 | 12:07 AM

GENEVA (CMC): The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Friday said extreme weather and climate impacts had a damaging toll on Latin America and the Caribbean last year, resulting in dying glaciers, record-breaking hurricanes, debilitating...

Published:Saturday | March 29, 2025 | 12:07 AM

WELLINGTON (AP): A remote Australian town that will soon lose its only doctor is offering a salary of up to 680,000 Australian dollars (US$428,000), plus free rent and a car, to attract a new candidate. The remote Queensland town of Julia Creek,...

Published:Friday | March 28, 2025 | 2:49 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, while a court fight continues. The emergency appeal to the...

Published:Friday | March 28, 2025 | 12:11 AMBy YONG JUN CHANG, HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press -

CHEONGSONG, South Korea (AP) — Helicopters dumped water over a burning forest in South Korea on Thursday as fire crews struggled to contain the country's worst-ever wildfires, which have killed 28 people, forced at least 37,800 to flee their homes...

Published:Friday | March 28, 2025 | 12:08 AM

CAIRO (AP): A recreational submarine taking 45 tourists on an underwater cruise of coral reefs in the Red Sea sank off the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada on Thursday, leaving six Russians dead, the provincial governor said. The remaining tourists...

Published:Friday | March 28, 2025 | 12:08 AM

JUBA (AP): South Sudan’s main opposition party said Thursday a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the arrest of its leader Riek Machar a day earlier. The party’s deputy chairperson, Oyet Nathaniel Pierino,...

Published:Friday | March 28, 2025 | 12:08 AM

GEORGETOWN (AP): US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived on Thursday in Guyana, the second leg of a three-nation tour of the Caribbean, as the Trump administration ramps up engagement in the Western Hemisphere to promote energy independence and...

Published:Thursday | March 27, 2025 | 12:13 PM

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors on Thursday requested a seven-year prison sentence and a 300,000-euro (around $325,000) fine for former President Nicolas Sarkozy, in connection with allegations that his 2007 presidential campaign was illegally...

Published:Thursday | March 27, 2025 | 10:42 AM

CAIRO (AP) — A recreational submarine taking 45 tourists on an underwater cruise of coral reefs in the Red Sea sank off the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada on Thursday, leaving six Russians dead, the provincial governor said. The remaining...

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