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Biden administration at odds with US military over 9/11 mastermind

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The Biden administration doubled down Thursday on its unusual court battle to derail a plea deal that the government itself had reached with accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It urged a federal appeals panel to block...

Second group of Cuban migrants repatriated

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 12:09 AM

GEORGE TOWN (CMC): The government of this British overseas territory says it returned a second group of Cuban migrants to Havana last month under revised legislation rolled out in 2023 that enables officials here to process asylum claims very...

New York City man lured immigrant women to sexually assault them, prosecutors say

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 9:30 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man for years lured migrant women into the city's subway system with the promise of jobs before taking them to secluded locations and sexually assaulting them, prosecutors say. Agustin Diaz was indicted...

Jimmy Carter honoured with Washington funeral before burial in his Georgia hometown

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 12:07 PM

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th US president, was honoured Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny...

New York's highest appeals court declines to block Trump's sentencing in hush money case

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 11:06 AM

ALBANY, NY (AP) — New York's highest court on Thursday declined to block Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the US Supreme Court as the president-elect's likely last option to prevent the...

Firefighters battle devastating Los Angeles wildfires as winds calm somewhat

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 8:38 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters continued to battle early Thursday to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people...

‘The joke is over’

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 12:09 AM

TORONTO (AP): US President-elect Donald Trump’s comments that Canada should become the 51st state are no longer a joke and are meant to undermine America’s closest ally, Canada’s finance minister said Wednesday. Dominic LeBlanc, the country’s point...

President offers sarcastic response to Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comment

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 12:09 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum responded sarcastically on Wednesday to US President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Standing before a global map in her daily...

Caribbean nat’ls now need ETA to visit UK

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 12:09 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Caribbean nationals wishing to visit the United Kingdom (UK) will, as of yesterday, need to be in possession of that country’s electronic travel authorisation (ETA) that has now gone into effect globally. As a result, Caribbean...

Thousands flee as wildfires burn out of control

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 12:09 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Multiple massive wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force on Wednesday, destroying more than 1,000 structures and killing at least two people as desperate residents escaped through flames, ferocious winds...

Puerto Rico’s new governor appoints energy czar to tackle island’s power crisis

Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 9:55 PM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's new governor appointed a so-called energy czar on Wednesday to help pull the US territory out of a power-supply crisis. The nomination of Josué Colón comes days after a massive...

Ethiopians celebrate Christmas as natural calamities and conflict take their toll

Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 8:45 PM

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians are celebrating Christmas with prayers for peace in the Horn of Africa nation that has faced persistent conflict in recent years. Ethiopians follow the Julian calendar...

Thousands flee as wildfires burn out of control in and around Los Angeles and homes are destroyed

Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 8:23 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force Wednesday, setting off a desperate escape from burning homes through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke. The flames from a fire that broke...

Indonesia admitted to BRICS bloc of developing nations

Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 12:07 AM

SAO PAULO (AP): Indonesia has been admitted as a full member of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, the group’s presiding country, Brazil, announced on Monday. Indonesia’s candidacy was endorsed by BRICS leaders in August 2023, according to the...

Jean-Marie Le Pen dies at 96

Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 12:07 AM

PARIS (AP): Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, died Tuesday. He was 96....

Opposition leader’s son-in-law kidnapped in Caracas

Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 12:07 AM

CARACAS. (AP): Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who claims to have defeated President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s presidential election, said his son-in-law was kidnapped on Tuesday in the capital, Caracas. González said Rafael...

Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland, Panama Canal

Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 12:07 AM

PALM BEACH (AP): President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared US control of both to be vital to American national security. Speaking...

US Justice Department accuses six major landlords of scheming to keep rents high

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 9:35 PM

DENVER (AP) — The US Justice Department is suing several large landlords for allegedly coordinating to keep Americans' rents high by using both an algorithm to help set rents and privately sharing sensitive information with their...

UK lawmakers slam Shein for refusing to answer questions on its cotton supply

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 9:20 PM

LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for Shein summoned to a British parliamentary hearing evaded questions Tuesday on whether the fast-fashion giant sells products containing cotton from China, angering lawmakers seeking answers on the retailer...

Migrants left stranded in troubled resort as Mexico disperses them far from US border

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 6:29 PM

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — About 100 migrants from various countries wandered directionless and disoriented through the streets of the troubled Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. After walking for a couple weeks through southern Mexico with...

Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 1:28 PM

PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared US control of both to be vital to American national...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 8:36 AM

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, died Tuesday....

HAITI | Parishioner murdered in churchyard

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 12:21 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince has condemned the murder of 37-year-old businessman Robenson Rendel in the courtyard of the Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours Church on Sunday as he got out of his vehicle to attend mass. “This...

THE BAHAMAS | Haitians fined for overstaying

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 12:21 AM

NASSAU (CMC): Bahamas Chief Magistrate Roberto Reckley has recommended that three Haitian nationals who overstayed their visitors’ visa be repatriated to their homeland after either paying the fines or the jail sentences. The three Haitians – Yvens...

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | PM Rowley announces energy minister as successor

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 12:21 AM

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago (CMC): Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Monday said Energy and Energy Industries Minister Stuart Young had been chosen by the legislative caucus of the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) to succeed him...

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