BERLIN (AP): Questions are mounting in Canada and in Europe over whether big-ticket purchases of high-end US weaponry, such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, are still a wise strategic choice for Western countries worried about their investment in...
HAMILTON (CMC): The ruling Progressive Labour Party (PLP) Tuesday mourned the death of one of its founding members, Eldridge Eugene Woods, saying he had played a significant role in ending racial segregation and securing the vote for every...
SAN JUAN (AP): Doctors Without Borders said Monday that four of its vehicles came under fire while they evacuated staff from a hospital in Haiti’s capital as gang violence in the city surges. The aid organisation said the attack occurred after it...
DEIR AL-BALAH (AP): Israel launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing more than 400 Palestinians, local health officials said, and shattering a ceasefire in place since January with its deadliest bombardment in a 17-month war...
BARCELONA (AP): Commuters in downtown Barcelona have been able to ride the bus for free this week. There’s just one catch: this mini-bus has no one at the wheel. The bus pulls away from the stop with its passengers on its own, brakes before...
HAVANA (AP): Cuba suffered a massive power outage Friday night affecting Havana and the country’s provinces that left millions in the dark. Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines said at around 8:15 p.m. local time an outage at the Diezmero substation...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): A 20-year-old Hispanic women accused of murdering a nine-year-old school girl, appeared in the St John’s Magistrates’ Court on Monday, as police maintained a heightened presence in a bid to ward off people, calling for the...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Senior Counsel Stuart Richard Young, 50, was sworn in on Monday as the eighth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago a few months before voters in this twin - republic go to the polls to elect a new government. Young, the...
French President Emmanuel Macron has fleshed out some possible missions that could be undertaken by a military support force for Ukraine that Paris and London are working to put together with other nations, in a so-called 'Coalition of the Willing...
HAVANA (AP) — Electricity service in Cuba was gradually restored Sunday, more than 36 hours after a substation failure left the entire island in the dark. Union Electrica, the state agency responsible for the electric grid, reported that most of...
OTTAWA (AP): New Candian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London today to seek alliances as he deals with US President Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy. Carney is purposely making his first foreign trip...
ROME (AP): Dozens of children toting yellow and white balloons — many from war-torn countries — gathered outside Rome’s Gemelli hospital to greet Pope Francis on his fifth Sunday hospitalised with double pneumonia. While the pope did not appear...
SRINAGAR (AP): Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As this tailor stitches, the machine crackles for a moment before Ghulam Ahmad Sofi’s otherworldly voice...
KOCANI, North Macedonia (AP) — A massive fire tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia 's eastern town of Kocani early Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 155, authorities said. The blaze broke out around 2:30 a.m. local time during a...
AP When a couple from Colombia who was planning their wedding showed up for a check-in with United States immigration authorities, one was given his next appointment date. The other was detained and deported. Jhojan doesn’t know why Felipe was...
AP Immigrants kept the largest urban counties in the US growing last year. Core counties in the Houston, Miami, and Phoenix metropolitan areas grew more than any others in the country primarily because of people moving in from outside the United...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba suffered a massive power outage Friday night affecting Havana and the country's provinces that left millions in the dark. Cuba's Ministry of Energy and Mines said around 8:15 p.m. local time an outage at the Diezmero...
BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC): Prime Minister John Briceño has been sworn into office for a second consecutive five-year term after his ruling People’s United Party (PUP) won Wednesday’s general election, winning 26 out of the 31 seats in the Parliament...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): United States Ambassador to Guyana Nicole Theriot on Thursday reaffirmed the US government’s strong support for Guyana following a recent Venezuelan naval incursion and Venezuela’s continued aggression towards Guyana’s...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The war in Sudan has created the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis with over 30 million people needing aid this year, 16 million of them children trying to survive in dire conditions, the head of the UN...
PANAMA CITY (AP): They crossed oceans to get to the US, fleeing conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Cameroon, China, Pakistan and Iran. After flying to Central and South...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Friday reiterated its "disappointment” at the decision of the United Kingdom to impose visa restrictions on nationals from the oil-rich twin island Republic with immediate effect...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Prime Minister of Belize John Briceño has been sworn into office for a second consecutive five-year term after his ruling People’s United Party(PUP) won Wednesday’s general election, copping 26 out of the 31 seats in the...
AP: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he agrees in principle with a US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, but he emphasised that the terms are yet to be worked out and noted that any truce should pave the way to lasting...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): A senior Guyana government minister Wednesday said that the authorities are aware of Venezuelan “sleepers” in the country and there will be treason charges for anyone who support Venezuela’s election to appoint a governor and...
