NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A High Court judge in The Bahamas has rejected a plea for a lesser sentence from both the prosecution and the defence and sentenced a 37-year-old father to five years in jail after indicating that he had committed a serious...
BANGKOK (AP): Five Thai workers, released after being held hostage for over a year in Gaza, arrived in Bangkok on Sunday. Sarusak Rumnao, 32, Watchara Sriaoun, 33, Sathian Suwannakham, 35, Pongsak Thaenna, 36, and Bannawat Saethao, 27, were freed...
SEOUL (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated US security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave threat to his country and vowed to further bolster his nuclear weapons programme, state media reported on Sunday. Kim has...
QAMISHLI (AP): Kurds in Syria were marginalised during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad transition to keep the cultural gains they...
CAPE TOWN (AP): United States President Donald Trump said he will cut all funding to South Africa over what he called a human rights violation, a move that reflects Elon Musk’s repeated and false claims over the years that authorities in his...
THE HAGUE (AP): United States President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court could jeopardise trials and investigations at the world’s only permanent global tribunal for war crimes and genocide. The...
NEW YORK (AP): President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday, returning to a strategy that drew allegations of mistreatment...
BUENOS AIRES (AP): A stream winding through a populous area on the outskirts of Buenos Aires has turned crimson red in recent hours, sparking fears of industrial chemical dumping, images shared by residents on social media showed Friday. The...
THE HAGUE (AP): The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday called on member states to stand up against sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump, describing the move as an attempt to harm an indispensable global court to administer...
MANILA (AP): Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte was impeached Wednesday on a range of accusations that include plotting to assassinate the president, large-scale corruption and failing to strongly denounce China’s aggressive actions against...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Forced leaves pulling all but a small fraction of staffers of the US Agency for International Development off the job around the world began Friday, while employee associations turned to federal courts to try to roll back the new...
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — A stream winding through a populous area on the outskirts of Buenos Aires has turned crimson red in recent hours, sparking fears of industrial chemical dumping, images shared by residents on social media showed Friday. The...
SAO PAULO (AP) — A small aircraft crashed on an avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Friday morning shortly after taking off from a nearby private airport, killing at least two of its passengers, the local firefighter corps said in a statement. The...
JERUSALEM (AP): Gaza has long been a powder keg, and it exploded after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, and began killing and abducting people, sparking a crushing Israeli military operation that’s only recently stopped...
KAMPALA (AP): A non-profit organisation supporting LGBTQ people in Uganda says its work is being threatened by US President Donald Trump’s suspension of foreign aid. Pius Kennedy, a programme officer with the Kampala-based nonprofit Africa Queer...
CIUDAD JUÁREZ (AP): As soon as the sun glints over miles of border fence dividing the United States and Mexico, the engines of cargo trucks packed with auto and computer parts roar to life along border bridges and bleary-eyed workers file into...
SEATTLE (AP) — A second federal judge in two days has blocked President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the US illegally. US District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle on Thursday...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A third contingent of Kenyan police arrived Thursday in Haiti to help repel violent gangs as officials brushed off concerns of a halt in some US funding to the UN-backed mission. The 200 police officers from the East...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A US military-contracted plane crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines Thursday, killing all four people on board, US Embassy and Philippine officials said. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines...
NASSAU (CMC): Human Rights Bahamas (HRB) has expressed disappointment with the decision of the Phillip Davis government not to bring legislation to make marital rape a crime. “I am extremely disappointed, especially [of] those with daughters,...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP): Saeed Abu Elaish’s wife, two of his daughters and two dozen others from his extended family were killed by Israeli airstrikes over the past 15 months. His house in northern Gaza was destroyed. He and surviving family...
GREENBELT, Maryland (AP): A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the US to someone in the country illegally, calling...
HONG KONG (AP) — The US Postal Service is reversing course a day after placing a ban on all inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong. The post office announced Tuesday that it would no longer accept parcels from the China and Hong Kong...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Prime Minister Gaston Browne has pointed to what he says are uneven benefits of integration within the regional body, CARICOM, saying that some nations prioritise their own economic advantages while neglecting the needs of smaller...
AP: SWEDISH POLICE said that about 10 people, including the gunman, were killed during a shooting Tuesday at an adult education centre. But a final death toll and a conclusive number of wounded hadn’t yet been determined. The damage at the crime...
