PHOENIX (AP): Kamala Harris said Thursday that Donald Trump’s comment that he would protect women whether they “like it or not” shows that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s rights “to make decisions about their own...
NEW YORK (AP): The Associated Press (AP) will have thousands of people on hand next week to count votes and declare winners and losers in the US election, continuing a tradition that began in 1848. There’s an even greater priority this year on...
PALMDALE, Calif (AP): This election, he has warned, is about the economy. Freedom. Stopping Project 2025 and the MAGA extremes. And, after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, it’s about democracy. And yet, Hakeem Jeffries, in line to make...
WASHINGTON (AP): Next week’s presidential election isn’t just a referendum on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It’s also a measure of the influence the world’s richest man wields over American democracy. Elon Musk, the South Africa-born tech and...
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) — South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that included three jurors and the judge from his...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams returned to court Friday, sitting stoically as his lawyers fought to eliminate a key charge in the federal corruption indictment that threatens his political future. The Democrat is fighting to...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A bus carrying university students on a field trip skidded off a road and tipped over in central Sri Lanka on Friday, killing two students and injuring 39 others, officials said. Police said the accident occurred...
BARRIO DE LA TORRE (AP): Crews searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings Thursday as residents salvaged what they could from their ruined homes following monstrous flash floods in Spain that claimed at least 158 lives, with 155...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (CMC): The government staged a walkout from the House of Assembly (HOA) late Wednesday, just ahead of planned no-confidence vote from the opposition. BVI News, in a report published on Thursday, said the House was...
SAN SALVADOR (AP): El Salvador’s Congress approved a proposal Wednesday to send a contingent of soldiers to Haiti under the auspices of the United Nations to handle medical evacuations in the troubled Caribbean nation. Patricia Aguilera, legal...
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC): An attorney, who successfully filed a constitutional motion calling on the High Court to declare flogging a criminal offence, now wants it to recommend no less than EC$50,000 (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) in...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (AP): Few elections in the nation’s history have provided such a divide as this year’s, with the two major candidates and so many of their supporters saying the outcome will determine the fate of the country and whether it...
MAPUTO (AP): At least 10 people were fatally shot by police and dozens of others were injured when authorities cracked down on unrest following Mozambique’s presidential election, two medical groups said, as the country braced Thursday for more...
LONDON (AP) — Chinese online retailer Temu is facing a European Union investigation over suspicions it's failing to prevent the sale of illegal products, the 27-nation bloc's executive arm said on Thursday. The European Commission...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's Congress approved a proposal Wednesday to send a contingent of soldiers to Haiti under the auspices of the United Nations to handle medical evacuations in the troubled Caribbean nation....
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's President Javier Milei on Wednesday dismissed his foreign affairs minister hours after the country voted in favour of lifting the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba at the United Nation...
NEW YORK (CMC): New York Attorney General, Letitia James, is leading a coalition of 20 attorneys general in the United States in filing an amicus brief in support of the US federal programme “Keeping Families Together”, which allows certain...
UTIEL (AP): Flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at least 95 people in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory. Rainstorms that started on Tuesday...
WELLINGTON (AP): Perched on two fingers on the roof of an art gallery in Wellington, New Zealand, the giant sculpture of a hand has loomed over the city for five years. Named Quasi, the 16 feet – almost five metres – creation of Australia-based...
WASHINGTON (AP): Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that North Korean troops wearing Russian uniforms and carrying Russian equipment are moving to the Kursk region near Ukraine, in what he called a dangerous and destabilising...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): More than 1,740 people were reported killed or injured in Haiti from July to September, a nearly 30 per cent increase over the previous trimester, according to the latest numbers released Wednesday by UN officials. The...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — At least 64 people have died in eastern Spain after flash floods swept away cars, turned village streets into rivers and disrupted rail lines and highways in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in...
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): Three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have signed on to a statement in which 80 developing countries at the United Nations are calling for the respect of China’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity....
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): When Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora returned to his home after more than two years in prison without a conviction, he found it empty. He said it smelled of abandonment after his family fled the country, fearing they...
DEARBORN, Michigan (AP): Bowls of labneh and platters of za’atar bread covered the tables in a Lebanese restaurant near Detroit, yet no one seemed to have much of an appetite. On one side were Kamala Harris ’ top emissaries to the Arab American...
