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PASADENA, California (AP): All that remains of Masjid Al-Taqwa is a sign that bears its name. The mosque in Altadena, which served a tight-knit Muslim community for 42 years, burned to the ground in one of the Los Angeles area’s deadliest fires in...

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders were accepting in the main, the decision to deport their nationals residing illegally in the United States, while at the same time seeking to develop a response by the Donald Trump...

KINSHASA (AP): A boat carrying people fleeing the ongoing rebel advance in eastern Congo has capsized, killing 22 people, the authorities said Thursday. The boat was carrying people from Vitshumbi on the southern shore of Lake Edward towards...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current...

BRUSSELS (AP): European Union (EU) envoys have approved a new raft of sanctions against Russia, with the measures set to enter into force next week on the third anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a top EU official and diplomats...

RIYADH (AP): Russia and the US agreed Tuesday to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and economic ties, the two countries’ top diplomats said after talks that reflected an extraordinary about-face in US...

CAIRO (AP): Attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) have killed hundreds of civilians, including infants, in White Nile state, Sudanese officials and rights groups said Tuesday. Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that...

AP: The crash of a Delta Air Lines plane in Toronto is the fourth major aviation disaster in North America in the last month. Here’s a look at each of the crashes. PASSENGER PLANE FLIPS DURING LANDING IN TORONTO A Delta plane arriving Monday at...

WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States is being urged to send a high-level delegation to the CARICOM leaders summit to be held in Barbados later this week. Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee;...

The stunning news came in a terse statement from the Russian penitentiary service a year ago: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in the Arctic Circle penal colony where he was serving a prison sentence. In the year since the death of Navalny...

JERUSALEM (AP): US Secretary of State Marco Rubio fully endorsed Israel’s war aims in the Gaza Strip, saying Hamas “must be eradicated” and throwing the future of the shaky ceasefire into further doubt. Rubio met with Israeli Prime Minister...

VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis was hospitalised Friday for the fourth time since being elected in 2013, after he was diagnosed with bronchitis just over a week ago. Francis had part of one lung removed as a young man and has recurring bouts of...