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Published:Thursday | March 27, 2025 | 12:09 AM

CAIRO (AP): Thousands of Palestinians marched between the wreckage of a heavily destroyed town in northern Gaza on Wednesday in the second day of anti-war protests, with many chanting against Hamas in a rare display of public anger against the...

Published:Thursday | March 27, 2025 | 12:09 AM

PARIS (AP): Their collective name, ‘Coalition of the willing’, suggests that the loose grouping of Ukraine’s allies certainly wants to help. But as the nearly three dozen nations gather again for more talks in Paris, it is still far from clear...

Published:Thursday | March 27, 2025 | 12:09 AM

CAPE TOWN (AP): Prince Harry has resigned as a patron of an African charity he co-founded nearly 20 years ago in memory of his late mother, Princess Diana, citing a breakdown in the relationship between board members and the chairwoman. The Duke of...

Published:Thursday | March 27, 2025 | 12:08 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): A panel of Brazil Supreme Court justices on Wednesday unanimously accepted charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, and ordered him to stand trial...

Published:Wednesday | March 26, 2025 | 9:01 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC -A member of the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission has been reported missing following a battle with criminal gangs in Carrefour-la-Ville, a locality in Petite Rivière de l’Artibonite in Haiti on...

Published:Wednesday | March 26, 2025 | 12:09 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission Tuesday said it stands in solidarity with the global community in observing the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade...

Published:Wednesday | March 26, 2025 | 12:09 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley Monday defended her government’s donation of two hectares of land at a historic site here for the construction of the first Afreximbank African Trade Centre (AATC) outside of Africa, noting that...

Published:Wednesday | March 26, 2025 | 12:08 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The main opposition United National Congress (UNC) launched its campaign for the April 28 general election, at the Naparima College in San Fernando, south of here on Monday night, accusing the ruling People’s National...

Published:Wednesday | March 26, 2025 | 12:08 AM

ROSEAU (CMC): The leader of the main opposition United Workers Party (UWP), Dr Thomson Fontaine, says he fears “several other individuals are being targeted by the police” after a former opposition legislator was arrested on Tuesday, as...

Published:Wednesday | March 26, 2025 | 12:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed the texting of sensitive plans for a military strike against Yemen’s Houthis this month to a group chat that included a journalist, saying it was “the only glitch in two months” of his...

Published:Wednesday | March 26, 2025 | 12:08 AM

TOKYO (AP): The Unification Church in Japan was ordered dissolved by a court Tuesday after a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The South Korea-based church said it was...

Published:Tuesday | March 25, 2025 | 9:07 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC -Police say one person was rescued and the search is continuing for three others, after a fire swept through a Chinese restaurant on the West Coast Demerara in Guyana during the early hours of Tuesday. “A search is...

Published:Tuesday | March 25, 2025 | 8:49 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top national security officials for President Donald Trump, including his defence secretary, texted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for...

Published:Tuesday | March 25, 2025 | 12:09 AM

GENEVA (AP): The head of the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) agency said on Monday that the sudden loss of American money has been “devastating” for efforts to stop HIV and will cost many lives of the world’s most vulnerable people....

Published:Tuesday | March 25, 2025 | 12:08 AM

CAPE TOWN (AP): South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday that the claim that white people are being persecuted in his country is a “completely false narrative”. It was his latest attempt to push back against allegations made by US...

Published:Monday | March 24, 2025 | 5:58 PM

DENVER (AP) — A painting of Donald Trump hanging with other presidential portraits at the Colorado state Capitol will be taken down after Trump claimed that it was "purposefully distorted," according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press...

Published:Monday | March 24, 2025 | 12:07 AM

PALESTINE DEIR AL-BALAH (AP): More than 50,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the territory’s health ministry said on Sunday, as new Israeli airstrikes killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight,...

Published:Monday | March 24, 2025 | 12:07 AM

AFGHANISTAN The US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister, who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government, officials in Kabul said on...

Published:Monday | March 24, 2025 | 12:07 AM

UNITED STATES NEW YORK (AP): During the first Trump administration, the biggest concern for many journalists was labels. Would they, or their news outlet, be called “fake news” or an “enemy of the people” by a president and his supporters? They...

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 10:04 PM

LONDON (AP): The first plane landed at Heathrow Airport late Friday, about 18 hours after an inferno at an electrical substation caused a power outage that shuttered Europe’s busiest air travel hub. The British Airways jet touched down just before...

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 10:03 PM

PANAMA CITY (AP): Migrants from Afghanistan, Russia, Iran and China deported from the United States and dropped into limbo in Panama hopped door-to-door at embassies and consulates this week in a desperate attempt to seek asylum in any country that...

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 10:03 PM

CAIRO (AP): Sudan’s military on Friday retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion of rival paramilitary forces in the capital, after nearly two years of fighting. The seizure of the Republican Palace, surrounded by...

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 9:59 PM

DEIR-AL-BALAH (AP): Israeli strikes killed at least 85 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday, according to local health officials. Hours later, Hamas fired three rockets at Israel without causing casualties, in the first...

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 9:59 PM

DAKAR(AP): The presidents of Congo and neighbouring Rwanda met Tuesday in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized two major cities in mineral-rich eastern Congo earlier this year. The meeting between Congo’s...

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 9:57 PM

KYIV(AP): President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that they had a constructive call about moving toward a ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow, with the White House suggesting the US could take control of...

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