GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed deep concern about the transitional governance process in its member state, Haiti. In a statement on Thursday, the regional body said it recognises the dedicated...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has welcomed the nomination of Marco Rubio for the position of United States Secretary of State, saying that Guyana remains optimistic that the “good working relations” with the United States...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): South Africa’s government says it won’t help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of an official strategy against illegal mining...
MELBOURNE(AP): How do you remove children from the harms of social media? Politically, the answer appears simple in Australia, but practically the solution could be far more difficult. The Australian government’s plan to ban children from social...
MADRID (AP): At least 10 people died and others were injured in a blaze at a nursing home near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain, before firefighters managed to extinguish the flames, local authorities said Friday. The alarm was raised just before 5 a...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the United States. On Friday, US District Judge Sean Jordan...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani province declared a health emergency Friday due to smog and imposed a shutdown in two major cities. Smog has choked Punjab for weeks, sickening nearly 2 million people and shrouding vast...
LONDON (AP) — Four teenagers and a man were convicted in a British court on Friday of stabbing two boys to death in a case of mistaken identity -- killings that shocked a country already anxious about knife crime. Mason Rist, aged 15,...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hundreds of hotel workers at a casino near the Las Vegas Strip went on strike just before dawn Friday after a long and highly publicised fight for a new contract. The strike at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas marks the first open-...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden began his six-day visit to Peru and Brazil on Thursday for the final major international summits of his presidency, while world leaders turn their attention to what Donald Trump ‘s return to the White House...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Masses of people on Thursday fled one of the few communities in Haiti’s capital that previously hadn’t been taken over by gangs, part of a surge of violence this week as gangs capitalise on the country’s political turmoil....
ZHUHAI (AP): People in a southern Chinese city were paying respects Wednesday to 35 of its residents killed by a driver who rammed his vehicle into a sports complex, mowing down people as they were exercising. Police have offered little...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden will hold talks Saturday with China’s Xi Jinping on the sidelines of an international summit in Peru, a face-to-face meeting that comes as Beijing braces for Donald Trump’s return to the White House. A senior...
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities introduced mobile clinics and added more beds in hospitals to treat the nearly 70,000 patients received daily with respiratory-related diseases as hazardous smog continued to shroud the country...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defence world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defence secretary, tapping someone largely inexperienced and untested on the global...
Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2024 | 12:09 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haiti’s main airport remained closed Tuesday, a day after gangs shot a landing airplane and injured a flight attendant when violence erupted as the country swore in its new prime minister in a politically tumultuous transition...
Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2024 | 12:09 AM
LONDON (AP): Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, resigned on Tuesday after an investigation found that he failed to tell police about serial physical and sexual...
HOUSTON (AP) — A judge on Tuesday sentenced a woman to 50 years in prison for forcing three of her children to live with the decomposing body of their dead 8-year-old brother for more than a year in a soiled, roach-infested Houston-...
BATON ROUGE, LA. (AP) — A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 was temporarily blocked Tuesday by a federal judge who said the law is “unconstitutional on its face.”...
LONDON (AP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, resigned Tuesday after an investigation found that he failed to tell police about serial physical and...
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge is due to decide Tuesday whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump's conviction in his hush money case because of a US Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. New York Judge Juan M Merchan, who presided...
ZHUHAI, China (AP) — A man who authorities said was upset over his divorce settlement rammed his car into a crowd of people exercising at a sports complex in southern China, killing 35 and severely injuring dozens of others, police said...
LONDON (AP): The head of the Church of England, spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, is under pressure to resign after an investigation found that he failed to inform police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico is facing a second Donald Trump presidency, and few countries can match its experience as a target of Trump’s rhetoric: There have been threats to close the border, impose tariffs and even send . forces to fight Mexican...
