NEW YORK (AP): An “economic blackout” promoted on social media was under way Friday but with no clear indication of how many people took part or whether national retailers and restaurant chains noticed any effect from the grassroots protest. A...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Just before dawn, 10 people met at a parking lot shared by a laundromat and coffee shop in South Central Los Angeles on what has become a daily mission: Look for immigration officers and warn people of their presence to try to...
MIRAMAR (AP): Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for being “disrespectful” Friday in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, then abruptly called off the signing of a minerals deal with the US...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — For most people in Florida, misdemeanour theft can result in up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. For an immigrant illegally in Florida, that same crime now carries a felony punishment of up to five years behind...
BASANKUSU (AP): Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in northwest Congo as health officials try to understand what may be behind a surge of illnesses that has surpassed 1,000 cases and killed at least 60 people. The World Health...
THE VALLEY (CMC): Governor Julia Crouch says she has received the official results of Wednesday’s general elections that resulted in Cora Richardson-Hodge becoming the first woman to head a government in this British overseas territory (BOT)....
BRUSSELS (AP): The European Union (EU) on Thursday pushed back hard against allegations by US President Donald Trump that the 27-nation bloc was out to get the United States, and warned that it would vigorously fight any wholesale tariff of 25 per...
TEL AVIV (AP): An investigation by the Israeli military has determined that Hamas was able to carry out the deadliest attack in Israeli history on October 7, 2023, because the much more powerful Israeli army misjudged the militant group’s...
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP): A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the US since 2015. The death was a “school-age child who was not...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Agriculture Minister Lennox Andrews says before the end of the second half of 2025, the government will bring legislation to the parliament that will decriminalise the use of cannabis for religious and recreational use. “We were...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP): Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 (G20) developed and developing nations gathered in South Africa on Wednesday for a two-day meeting marked by the absence of US Treasury Secretary Scott...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2025 | 12:09 AM
DEIR AL-BALAH (AP): At least six infants have died from hypothermia in the last two weeks in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of people are living in tent camps and war-damaged buildings during a fragile ceasefire, Palestinian medics...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2025 | 12:08 AM
PARAMARIBO (CMC): The main opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) Tuesday observed the 45th anniversary of the military coup that brought Desi Bouterse to power, recalling his last wish to Suriname and that is to return the party back to...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2025 | 12:08 AM
VANNES (AP): A former surgeon went on trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who were his patients, in what investigators and his own notebooks describe as a pattern of violence spanning...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2025 | 12:08 AM
KINSHASA (AP): An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between the onset of symptoms – which include...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2025 | 12:06 AM
NASSAU (CMC): The Bahamas murder count climbed to 12 so far this year, after a 20-year-old father was murdered in front of his four-year child, police have confirmed. They said Quintero Arnett was sitting in his vehicle on Saturday when a vehicle...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): In a win for Ukraine on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, the United States on Monday failed to get the UN General Assembly to approve its resolution urging an end to the war without mentioning Moscow’s aggression....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): A Kenyan police officer sent to Haiti to help rein in violent gangs was fatally shot in a fight with one of the gangs, Kenyan authorities said Sunday. The shooting happened in the western Artibonite region where Kenyan...
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP): Two men are on trial in Zambia on charges of practising witchcraft and possessing charms intended to harm the country’s president, in a case that has become a source of fascination in the southern African nation. The interest...
PUERTO CARTÍ (AP) They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal, seek asylum in the US. Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean...
CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and the government of Barbados have signed a US$75-million financing agreement to advance cultural heritage preservation, tourism, and modernisation of related infrastructure. The signing...
SACRAMENTO (AP): California Governor Gavin Newsom has asked Congress to approve nearly $40 billion in aid to help the Los Angeles area recover from January’s devastating wildfires, which he said could become the costliest natural disaster in US...
TOKYO (AP): Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, marking his 65th birthday on Sunday, stressed the importance of telling the tragedy of World War II to younger generations, pledging to contribute to efforts to promote the understanding of history and the...
An Afghan women’s radio station will resume broadcasts after the Taliban lifted their suspension over alleged cooperation with an overseas TV channel. Radio Begum was launched on International Women’s Day in March 2021, five months before the...
