SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Federal Police on Saturday arrested General Walter Braga Netto, a former member of President Jair Bolsonaro's Cabinet and his 2022 running mate, in connection with investigations into an alleged coup plot,...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Eighteen countries from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have launched the Alliance for Security, Justice and Development, an unprecedented alliance which unites governments, multilateral organisations, and civil...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): Six opposition legislators, including Opposition Leader Michael Pintard, have been suspended from two sittings of the parliament for the role they played in last week’s scene when the mace was thrown out of the chamber. Last...
DAMASCUS (AP): Thousands of Syrians gathered Friday in Damascus’ historic main mosque for the first Muslim Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, while giant crowds celebrated in the capital’s largest square. The gatherings were...
BRUSSELS (AP): European Union countries agreed on Friday a draft law aimed at preventing and countering migrant smuggling, which critics say could be used to target people or charity groups that try to help migrants in trouble. The aim of the new...
A federal appeals court on Friday left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States, rejecting a request made by the company to halt enforcement until the Supreme Court...
LONDON (AP) — The father and stepmother of a 10-year-old girl found dead in her home in England were found guilty Wednesday of her murder after what prosecutors called a “campaign of abuse.” Urfan Sharif, 42, and his 30-...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with President-elect Donald Trump's incoming “border czar” on Thursday, with the Democratic mayor expressing an enthusiasm to work with the incoming administration...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's most populous province may bar American-made alcohol in addition to restricting electricity exports to Michigan, New York and Minnesota if US President-elect Donald Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on all...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia arrested a suspected British drug trafficker they described as "invisible" due to his low-key lifestyle that allowed him to remain anonymous while operating as a cartel's coordinator of cocaine...
NEW YORK (AP) — A bird strike involving an American Airlines jetliner disabled one of the plane's two engines shortly after takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport, forcing the flight to turn around and land at John F Kennedy...
Stanley is recalling approximately 2.6 million of its switchback and trigger action stainless steel travel mugs sold in the US because of a potential burn hazard. The company said that the mug's lid threads can shrink when exposed to heat and...
HARRISON, NY (AP) — A small plane crashed onto an interstate highway in New York, killing one of two people on board and injuring the other, authorities said. The crash shut down traffic on Interstate 684 in Harrison, about 25 miles (40...
NEW YORK (AP): President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell on Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange after being recognised for the second time by Time magazine as its Person of the Year. The honours for the businessman-turned-politician...
NEW YORK (AP) — About six months ago, Donald Trump was sitting in a courtroom in lower Manhattan listening to a jury make him the first former president convicted of a crime, on Thursday, he will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock...
PHOENIX (AP): A polygamous religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives ” including 10 underage girls faces decades in prison at his sentencing on Monday for coercing girls as young as nine years old to submit to criminal sex acts...
TikTok has challenged a Canadian government order to shut down the Chinese video-sharing app's business operations in the country that was imposed over national security concerns. The company said Tuesday that it filed an application...
GENESEO, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York man has been charged with murder after he tried to drop his father's bullet-riddled body off at a sheriff's office, authorities said. Richard Fluegel Jr., 30, called 911 late Monday to say that...
Published:Wednesday | December 11, 2024 | 12:09 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): A gang leader accused of killing more than 100 people in Haiti’s capital to avenge his son’s death was still persecuting residents on Tuesday, according to a rare witness account. Mackenson Cangé, whose father was among the...
Published:Wednesday | December 11, 2024 | 12:06 AM
SAN JUAN (AP): Dengue fever is sweeping across the Caribbean and the Americas, with a record 12.6 million suspected cases of the mosquito-transmitted virus reported this year, nearly triple the number from last year, health officials said Tuesday....
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri business groups announced Monday that they have filed a lawsuit to try to stop a voter-approved law that will raise the state's minimum wage and require employers to give workers paid sick leave....
NEW YORK (AP) — Eager to preserve President-elect Donald Trump 's hush money conviction even as he returns to office, prosecutors are suggesting various ways forward — including one based on how some courts handle criminal...
MALIBU, California (AP) — Thousands of Southern California residents were under evacuation orders and warnings Tuesday as firefighters battled a wind-driven wildfire in Malibu that burned near seaside mansions and Pepperdine University, where...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A trend in South Africa of people jumping in front of slow-moving cars to get compensation payouts for injuries drew a warning Tuesday from the government's national Road Accident Fund. In a statement, it...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is recovering in an intensive-care unit after undergoing surgery for an intracranial haemorrhage, the Sirio-Libanes hospital said in a statement in the early hours of...
