PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Health authorities are urging people in Trinidad and Tobago to refrain from eating giant African snails, amid newspaper reports that the snails were being consumed and becoming a delicacy. “The giant African snail...
SEATTLE (AP): A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump has revoked government security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top aide, Brian Hook, who have faced threats from Iran since they took hard-line stances on the Islamic Republic...
SAN SALVADOR (AP) — A court in El Salvador on Thursday sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them making gang signs inside a...
NZULO (AP): The M23 rebel group’s advance toward eastern Congo’s largest city has displaced over 178,000 people in the past two weeks, the United Nations said, as the fighters closed in on Goma on the border with Rwanda. The M23 has been making...
TORONTO (AP): Canada’s outgoing prime minister and the leader of the country’s oil rich province of Alberta are both confident Canada can avoid the 25 per cent tariffs President Donald Trump says he will impose on February 1. Justin Trudeau and...
TRES BOCAS (AP): The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighbouring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence in Colombia’s Catatumbo region that has left at least 80 people dead and displaced...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump’s administration has moved to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. The moves...
CASTAIC, California (AP) — More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings Wednesday as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles, as parched Southern California endured another round of...
ANKARA (AP) : A fire raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey early Tuesday during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people – at least two of them when they jumped from the building to escape the flames,...
NAIROBI (CMC): Kenya says it will send an all-female Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team to reinforce security efforts in Haiti where criminal gangs are seeking to overthrow the government of the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM)...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) says it intends to continue protest action throughout the semester in support of the ongoing salary dispute with the authorities. On the first day of the new semester on...
TRES BOCAS, Colombia (AP) — The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighbouring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence in Colombia's Catatumbo region that has left at least 80 people dead and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen. The move...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – An American Airlines flight travelling from Miami suffered blown main landing gear tyres shortly after landing at the Argyle International Airport (AIA) in Kingstown, St Vincent, on Monday. There were no immediate...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian president Gustavo Petro said on Monday that he will declare a state of emergency, following a spate of guerrilla attacks in the country's northeast that has killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee...
KHAN YOUNIS (AP): Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place on Sunday, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to return to the remains of the homes they had evacuated during the 15-month war. Majida...
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, political deputy at the foreign ministry...
CARACAS (AP) Things seemed to be looking up for Venezuela in 2022. Following years of authoritarian rule and withering economic sanctions, President Nicolás Maduro had agreed to work toward a democratic presidential election. The White House, in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump used one last rally on the eve of his inauguration to again celebrate his election victory, declaring Sunday, "We won" to a crowd celebrating his return to the White House and projecting defiant...
TikTok said Sunday it was restoring service to users in the United States just hours after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a federal ban, which President-elect Donald Trump said he would try to pause by executive order...
Elon Musk said a third person has received an implant from his brain-computer interface company Neuralink, one of many groups working to connect the nervous system to machines. “We’ve got ... three humans with Neuralinks and all are working well,”...
WASHINGTON (AP): United States President Joe Biden in his farewell speech to the nation last Wednesday warned that American democracy was sliding into an “oligarchy” of tech billionaires. But what exactly is an oligarchy? What is an oligarchy? In...
Federal immigration officers will target more than 300 people with histories of egregious, violent crimes after President-elect Donald Trump takes office Monday, an official said, marking his administration's initial attempt toward fulfilling his...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana’s growth trajectory continued in 2024 with an estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 43.6 per cent, up from the 33 per cent expansion in 2023, Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility...
