Associated Press/Report for America (AP): Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping package of immigration laws on Thursday aimed at carrying out President Donald Trump ’s mass deportation agenda. Republicans say the laws put Florida – long...
DAKAR (AP): The UN children’s fund on Thursday accused armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of children over the past weeks as rebels expand their footprint and push government forces out. The...
ABUJA (AP): Nigerian lawmakers have approved an additional $200 million for the health sector as part of its 2025 spending plan to offset the shortfall from US aid cuts. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with more than 200 million people, was...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was hospitalised Friday to treat a weeklong bout of bronchitis and undergo diagnostic tests, the Vatican said, confirming the latest issues with the 88-year-old's pontiff's health that forced him to cancel his agenda...
PUNTA ARENAS (AP): A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral as one of the most remarkable footage in Chile in recent years. Last...
GOMA (AP): Congo’s largest church organisations met Wednesday with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east in the latest push for peace and dialogue after weekslong fighting that saw the rebels seize the region’s largest city of Goma. A joint...
NASSAU (CMC): Bahamian tourism officials say they expect the country to become a key player in the rapidly growing space tourism sector as its first international rocket landing is set to take place on Tuesday next week, off the coast of The...
BERLIN (AP) — A driver drove a car into a union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday, injuring at least 28 people including children, authorities said. Officials said it was believed to be an attack. The suspect, an Afghan asylum-seeker,...
SAN JUAN (AP): Haiti’s children are increasingly caught in the crossfire of gang violence, forced to carry weapons, spy on police and rival gangs and run errands for gunmen, according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International. One of...
AP: Egyptian and Qatari mediators were working to salvage the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, which risks being derailed because of a dispute between the two sides, according to Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera News TV, which is...
OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) — Egg prices reached a record high in the US last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The latest monthly consumer price index confirmed what consumers, bakers and food companies already knew: an ongoing...
Published:Wednesday | February 12, 2025 | 12:56 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — R Kelly's racketeering and sex trafficking convictions, along with a 30-year prison sentence, were upheld Wednesday by a federal appeals court that concluded the singer exploited his fame for over a quarter century to sexually...
Published:Wednesday | February 12, 2025 | 10:11 AM
Spirit Airlines has again rejected a third takeover bid from budget rival Frontier, saying that it would focus on its own plan to emerge from bankruptcy and stabilise its finances. The offer this week, like the last bid, offers Spirit...
WASHINGTON, CMC -The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says disparity in access to treatment for childhood cancers is particularly concerning in Latin America and the Caribbean, where around 30,000 children and adolescents under the age of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): The wife of former Haitian President Jovenel Moise has written to United States President Donald trump, asking him to declassify all FBI and State Department documents related to the assassination of her husband on July 7,...
McALLEN, Texas (AP): Two Venezuelan planes returned home Monday with about 190 Venezuelans deported from the United States, signalling a possible thaw in relations between two longtime diplomatic adversaries and a victory for President Donald Trump...
BELLADERE, Haiti (AP): A crowd of 500 descended from dusty trucks on a recent morning and shuffled through a tiny gap in a border gate separating Haiti from the Dominican Republic. They were the first deportees of the day, some still clad in work...
NEW YORK, CMC – Caribbean immigration advocates in New York have condemned United States President Donald Trump for his intervention in a US federal case in which New York City Mayor Eric Adams is accused of corruption. The Department of Justice...
More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists — filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday...
WASHINGTON (AP): Officials and federal officers turned away scores of US Agency for International Development (USAID) staffers who showed up for work Monday at its Washington headquarters after a court temporarily blocked a Trump administration...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow. “Yeah, it is,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier when asked whether his...
LONDON (AP): The Saudis are furious. The Danes are scrambling. Colombia has backed down. Mexico and Canada stand in a purgatory between tariff wars with the US and … not. China has retaliated, launching a trade war between the economic superpowers...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): At least 51 people are dead after their bus plunged off a bridge Monday on the outskirts of Guatemala’s capital, said Hector Flores, who was helping coordinate the municipal government’s response. Firefighting spokesman Edwin...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials and federal officers turned away scores of US Agency for International staffers who showed up for work Monday at its Washington headquarters, after a court temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that would...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — At least 40 people are dead after their bus plunged off a bridge Monday on the outskirts of Guatemala's capital. Firefighting spokesman Edwin Villagran said a multi-vehicle crash sent the bus off the bridge before dawn....
