ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 70 people have died in north-central Nigeria after a gasoline tanker exploded, the country's emergency response agency said. The blast happened in the early hours of Saturday near the Suleja area of Niger state...
JERUSALEM (AP): Israel’s security Cabinet recommended approval Friday of a Gaza ceasefire deal after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed an agreement had been reached that would pause the 15-month war with Hamas and release dozens of...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government has dismissed a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit filed by the embattled Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus, as a desperate publicity stunt to grab headlines. “He will get the chance to do so in court...
KINGSTOWN(CMC): A member of the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), St Clair Leacock, says he will consider any visit to St Vincent and the Grenadines by Taiwan President Lai Ching-te “in the middle of this year” to be interference in the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – CARICOM has launched a project aimed at developing a comprehensive labour migration policy for the Caribbean region. The 'Free Movement of persons in the CARICOM Region: Undertaking labour market analysis in the Region...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden won't enforce a ban on the social media app TikTok that is set to take effect a day before he leaves office on Monday, a US official said Thursday, leaving its fate in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request by former President Jair Bolsonaro to temporarily restore his passport so that he could attend the inauguration in Washington of US President-elect Donald Trump next week....
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn't break his arm, but a sling was put on as a precaution, the Vatican...
NEW YORK, CMC – New York City Mayor Eric Adams says that 13 new emergency shelters serving Caribbean and other asylum seekers across the five boroughs, including Hall Street in Brooklyn, one of the city’s largest facilities that currently houses...
DOHA (AP): Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal to pause the devastating war in the Gaza Strip, multiple officials announced Wednesday, raising the possibility of winding down the deadliest and most destructive fighting between the bitter...
STILFONTEIN (AP): South African police said on Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies from an abandoned gold mine, where hundreds of miners were trapped for...
WARSAW (AP): Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused Russia on Wednesday of planning acts of sabotage worldwide that included “acts of air terror” against airlines. Tusk spoke at a news conference in Warsaw alongside Ukrainian President Volodymr...
US regulators on Wednesday banned the dye called Red 3 from the nation's food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk. Food and Drug Administration officials granted a 2022 petition filed by two...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Ministry of Education says classes at a secondary school in Georgetown, Guyana, have been suspended for the remainder of the week following reports of a pigeon infestation. In a brief statement, the ministry said...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden notified Congress of his intent to lift the US designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, the White House announced, as part of a deal facilitated by the Catholic Church to free political prisoners...
LONDON (AP): Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser’s double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her worries, newly declassified documents reveal. The files about royal art historian...
GENEVA (AP): The UN migration agency says internal displacement in Haiti, largely caused by gang violence, has tripled over the last year and now surpasses one million people — a record in the Caribbean nation. The International Organization for...
STILFONTEIN (AP): Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and emaciated survivors to the surface on Tuesday with hundreds more still...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados police have warned of a crackdown on criminal activities after the island recorded three murders so far this year. Barbados recorded 50 killings last year. “It has not been comforting from the perspective...
CARACAS (CMC): The US Department of State has increased to US$25 million, the reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro who has been charged in a federal indictment for narco-terrorism and...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP): President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks that Canada should become the 51st state drew condemnation and a patriotic outburst on Saturday from a former Canadian prime minister, who offered blunt advice to the incoming...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Police in Haiti have arrested a former legislator, long accused of arming gangs in the country’s central region and previously sanctioned by the US and Canada. Prophane Victor, an ex-member of Parliament who represented the...
JERUSALEM (AP): Yotam Vilk says the image of Israeli soldiers killing an unarmed Palestinian teenager in the Gaza Strip is seared in his mind. An officer in the armoured corps, Vilk said the instructions were to shoot any unauthorised person who...
NEW YORK (AP) — Country music star Carrie Underwood will perform 'America the Beautiful' at Donald Trump's inauguration next week and other performers will include two of the president-elect's musical favourites, country...
