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Published:Wednesday | February 5, 2025 | 12:06 AM

GEORGE TOWN (CMC): The government of the Cayman Islands has four new national heroes after the government recognised them during the Heroes Day celebrations last week. The Cabinet bestowed the national award posthumously to Captain Keith Tibbetts,...

Published:Wednesday | February 5, 2025 | 12:05 AM

BRUSSELS (AP): After three years spent trying to deter Russia from destroying Ukraine, European Union leaders grappled on Monday with possible responses to a major ally who appears determined to start a trade war or perhaps even seize part of their...

Published:Tuesday | February 4, 2025 | 1:18 PM

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...

Published:Tuesday | February 4, 2025 | 9:14 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighbourhood that's home to most of the country's elite and had been largely untouched by criminals, and police have demanded help repelling the assault that has killed at...

Published:Tuesday | February 4, 2025 | 8:57 AM

OREBRO, Sweden (AP) — Five people were shot at an adult education centre in Sweden on Tuesday, police said. The Swedish news agency TT reported, without providing its sources, that the perpetrator died by suicide. Police didn't immediately...

Published:Tuesday | February 4, 2025 | 12:10 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump on Monday indicated that he wants to reach an agreement with Ukraine to gain access to the country’s rare earth materials as a condition for continuing US support for its war against Russia. Speaking to...

Published:Tuesday | February 4, 2025 | 12:09 AM

CAPE TOWN (AP): US President Donald Trump has said he will cut all funding to South Africa and has launched an investigation into the country’s policies, claiming that a “massive” human- rights violation against white people is happening over a new...

Published:Tuesday | February 4, 2025 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): US President Donald Trump held off on Monday on his tariff threats against Mexico for one month of further negotiations after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country’s National Guard to the...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 2:23 PM

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week. This is the first trial to assess the efficacy of a vaccine...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 11:17 AM

TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada's most populous province of Ontario said Monday he's ripping up a contract with Elon Musk's Starlink internet services in response to US President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on Canada. Ontario Premier...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 9:46 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Monday sought to clarify the status of embattled Police Commissioner, Erla Harewood-Christopher, amid an ongoing investigation into misbehaviour in public office. In a...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 8:51 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Staffers of the US Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency's Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them, after billionaire Elon Musk announced President...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:18 PM

PRAYAGRAJ (AP): The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking towards the spot where they take holy baths, drawn by the hope that the bathing would bring them salvation. But when they leave — believing their sins...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:17 PM

President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, said that the US will use a detention centre at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens”. “We’re...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:15 PM

DUARTE (AP): Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, she said. Now, as crews clean charred remains from the Los Angeles wildfires, she worries about a new potential...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:15 PM

BAGHDAD (AP): Car bombs and militant attacks are no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad as they were in the chaotic years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, or at the height of the battle to push back the Islamic State group. But while...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:15 PM

KAMPALA (AP): Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, a top health official said on Sunday. A range of scientists are developing research protocols...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:08 PM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): A senior Trump administration official travelled Friday to Venezuela to urge President Nicolás Maduro’s government to take back deported migrants who have committed crimes in the United States and release a handful of...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:08 PM

TOCUYITO, Venezuela (AP): Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro labelled them as terrorists on national television. They were plucked from pharmacies, apartment buildings and other locations, and thrown in prison for months. Many then endured severe...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:08 PM

LONDON (AP): Five years ago Friday, two crowds of people gathered near Britain’s Parliament – some with Union Jacks and cheers, others European Union flags and tears. On January 31, 2020 at 11 p.m. London time – midnight at EU headquarters in...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:08 PM

GENEVA (AP): Switzerland’s top criminal court on Friday convicted a multinational company for the first time, ruling against commodities trader Trafigura in a case of bribery linked to lucrative oil industry contracts in Angola. The federal court...

Published:Friday | January 31, 2025 | 7:27 PM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A small plane has crashed in Northeast Philadelphia as crews respond to a fiery scene Pennsylvania's governor said Friday. Governor Josh Shapiro said he is offering all "Commonwealth resources as they respond to the small...

Published:Friday | January 31, 2025 | 6:24 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is readying orders for the deployment of at least 1,000 additional active duty troops to bolster President Donald Trump's expanding crackdown on immigration, US officials said Friday. They said roughly 500 more...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:00 PM

NEW YORK (CMC): United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law a measure criminalising Caribbean and other immigrants for nonviolent offenses. The US House of Representatives earlier passed H.R. 29, or the Laken Riley Act,...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:00 PM

PRAYAGRAJ (AP): Grieving families cremated their loved ones while others cared for their injured relatives in hospitals on Thursday, a day after a stampede killed at least 30 people and injured 60 others on a riverbank at the Maha Kumbh festival in...

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