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UN chief wants climate target review by 2020

Published:Sunday | November 29, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP) — The latest from the much-anticipated U.N. climate conference that gets underway in Paris on Monday. All times local: 3:55 p.m. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says governments' pledges to cut global warming emissions aren...

Russia imposes sanctions over downed jet

Published:Saturday | November 28, 2015 | 12:00 AM

ANKARA, (AP):Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday ordered sanctions against Turkey, following the downing last week by Turkey of a Russian warplane.The decree published on the Kremlin's website yesterday came hours after Turkish President...

CARICOM welcomes Baroness Scotland

Published:Saturday | November 28, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated Baroness Patricia Scotland on her election as Secretary General of the Commonwealth.Baroness Scotland has created history as the first woman to head the organisation. She is also the second...

Pope honours Ugandan Christian martyrs

Published:Saturday | November 28, 2015 | 12:00 AM

NAMUGONGO, (AP):Pope Francis yesterday honoured Uganda's 19th century Christian martyrs and encouraged its 21st century Christian youths during a day that saw nearly a half-million Ugandans turn out to see the pontiff before he headed to Central...

Turkey's President saddened by downing of Russian jet

Published:Saturday | November 28, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is saddened by the downing of a Russian combat jet by Turkish forces near the Syrian border on Tuesday. Erdogan’s remarks come as Turkey warned its citizens against non-essential travel to...

Boats with decaying bodies found drifting off Japan's coastline

Published:Friday | November 27, 2015 | 4:46 PM

Japanese officials are investigating after up to 11 boats were found drifting off the country's coastline, some of them with decaying bodies on board. A coastguard spokesman says around 20 corpses were found on wooden boats between October and...

Federal judge sentences man in Jamaican lottery scam

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 12:00 AM

NORTH DAKOTA (AP):A federal judge in North Dakota sentenced a Jamaican man to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for a lottery scam that authorities say cost victims around the country millions of...

Man from Jamaica pleads guilty to lottery scam in WV court

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WEST VIRGINIA (AP):A man from Jamaica has pleaded guilty in West Virginia federal court to conspiring to scam United States citizens through an international lottery scheme.The Exponent...

Cameron: UK must attack IS in Syria to deny group safe haven

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):Prime Minister David Cameron tried to persuade reluctant lawmakers to back airstrikes on the Islamic State group in Syria, stressing yesterday that the Paris attacks have given the fight new urgency and Britain owes it to key allies to...

Philippine forces kill 8 suspected to have IS sympathies

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 9:36 AM

MANILA (AP):Philippine marines killed eight suspected sympathisers of the Islamic State (IS) group in a clash in the southern Philippines yesterday, seizing bomb-making equipment, assault rifles and black flags, military officials said.The militants...

Protests of Chicago teen's shooting continue

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 9:53 AM

CHICAGO (AP):Several hundred protesters amassed on the streets of Chicago a second day in response to the city's Tuesday release of a squad-car video showing a white police officer fatally shooting a black teenager.Officer Jason Van Dyke is charged...

Government moving to invoke anti-terrorism legislation

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):The Trinidad and Tobago government is moving to implement the anti-terrorism legislation by freezing the assets of a person the court has deemed to be a terrorist.A terrorist act is defined as one that will cause or is "likely"...

UK backs off cuts to tax breaks for lower income households

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 11:02 AM

LONDON (AP):Britain's Treasury chief abandoned controversial cuts in tax credits for the working poor and kept police funding intact yesterday as he updated Parliament on the government's budget plans.George Osborne said improvements in public...

Some in US military suspended for Afghan hospital attack

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 11:15 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):United States (US) soldiers and airmen who killed and wounded dozens of civilians in a strike on an Afghanistan hospital violated the rules of engagement and have been suspended as they await disciplinary action, US military...

Putin sends air-defence missiles to Syria

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 11:25 AM

In a move raising the potential threat of a Russia-NATO conflict, Russia said it will deploy long-range air-defence missiles to its base in Syria and destroy any target that may threaten its warplanes following the downing of a Russian military jet...

Turkey gave no warning, says downed Russian pilot

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 1:54 PM

The surviving pilot of a Russian plane shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border has said no warning was given. Captain Konstantin Murakhtin told Russian television there was no way the jet could have violated Turkish airspace, as Turkey said it did...

Russia confirms its jet shot down near Turkish border

Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AM

ANKARA (AP): Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane yesterday, a long-feared crisis in Syria's civil war, and apparently the first time a NATO member has downed a Russian plane in a half-century.Russian President Vladimir Putin called Turkey's action a "stab...

ACP ministerial conference condemns terrorism, urges support for climate change

Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AM

BRUSSELS (CMC):African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries began a two-day meeting here yesterday, condemning the terrorist attacks in Paris and other parts of the world, calling also on developed countries to do more to ensure there is a...

EasyJet, BA cancel Sharm el-Sheikh flights until January

Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 9:14 AM

LONDON (AP):British Airways and easyJet have cancelled flights to Sharm el-Sheikh until at least January, as Britain advises its citizens to avoid travel there after last month's downing of a Russian passenger jet.Britain and several other countries...

Study: US preschool enrolment low among developed countries

Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

UNITED STATES, AP: Sixty-six percent of American four year-olds are enrolled in early childhood education, placing the United States well below average compared to other developed countries at a time of increasing focus on early learning,...

Prince Charles: Climate change party to blame for Syria war

Published:Monday | November 23, 2015 | 10:46 AMAP

UNITED KINGDOMLONDON, (AP):Prince Charles said climate change is partly responsible for Syria?s civil war and the chaos it has unleashed.The heir to the British throne said climate change is causing drought, conflict over resources and mass...

Russian foreign minister cancels visit to Turkey after warplane shot down

Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AM

BEIRUT (AP): Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has cancelled a planned trip to Turkey in the wake of the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey. The meeting between Lavrov and his Turkish...

One killed in weekend protests in Haiti

Published:Monday | November 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PORT AU PRINCE, CMCAt least one person was killed and several others wounded as opposition supporters staged violent protests in the capital against the preliminary results of the October 25 legislative and first round presidential elections, police...

Kirchner era ends with opposition win in Argentina

Published:Monday | November 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

BUENOS AIRES, (AP)President-elect Mauricio Macri's promises to revitalise Argentina's sagging economy with free-market reforms and improve strained relations with the United States resonated with voters, carrying him to a historic win that ended 12...

World record holder, disease social activist among Rhodes scholars for Class of 2016

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2015 | 4:50 PM

WASHINGTON (AP):The 32 American men and women chosen as Rhodes scholars include a member of the United States (US) National Rowing Team, an Alzheimer's disease social activist and a Harvard University student who holds a Guinness World Record for...

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