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Published:Sunday | May 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The pro-gay rights rulings of United States (US) Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy have been a key spark in the march towards legalised gay marriage.

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Legislation to punish Venezuela's government for human rights abuses is advancing in Congress despite objections from the Obama administration.

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

SANTO DOMINGO, (AP): Authorities in the Dominican Republic said last Friday that they have arrested a citizen of Pakistan and six others accused of running a sophisticated migrant smuggling operation in the Caribbean country.

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP):Environmentalists say the only living hard coral reef in the Gulf of California is once again under threat, just two years after activists persuaded the government to block construction of a huge 30,000-room resort nearby.

Published:Saturday | May 10, 2014 | 12:29 PM

Speaking instead of her husband in the weekly presidential address, Obama said the abduction was not an isolated incident, but something that happens every day ...

Published:Saturday | May 10, 2014 | 9:59 AM

The Venezuela government has announced the start of electricity rationing in western Zulia state.

Published:Friday | May 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP):A handful of sex workers sit on discarded cardboard along a filthy sewer channel, sharing food and razors to shave their legs and faces as they prepare for the night's labour on the streets of Jamaica's capital.Gay sex and...

Published:Friday | May 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

NAIROBI (AP):Horrific, ethnically motivated attacks of physical and sexual violence launched in South Sudan by warring parties constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International disclosed yesterday...

Published:Thursday | May 8, 2014 | 8:57 AM

A Thai court has ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and several cabinet ministers to resign.

Published:Thursday | May 8, 2014 | 12:00 AM

NAIROBI (AP):Weak and erratic rains, military conflict and little aid funding from the international community could lead to mass hunger in Somalia, aid groups warned yesterday....

Published:Thursday | May 8, 2014 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):Latinos in the United States (US) are abandoning the Roman Catholicism of their childhood in increasing numbers to become evangelical Protestants or leave organised religion altogether, according to a new survey released yesterday....

Published:Thursday | May 8, 2014 | 12:00 AM

GENEVA (CMC):New United Nations data show that Barbados and Haiti are among 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that have made significant progress in reducing deaths from pregnancy-related causes since 1990....

Published:Thursday | May 8, 2014 | 12:00 AM

BANGKOK (AP):Thailand's prime minister was ordered by a court to step down yesterday in a ruling that handed a victory to anti-government protesters, who have staged six months of street protests, but does little to resolve the country's political...

Published:Thursday | May 8, 2014 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama said the United States will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls missing since they were kidnapped from school three weeks ago by an Islamist extremist group that has threatened...

Published:Wednesday | May 7, 2014 | 1:26 PM

Nigeria's police have offered a US$300,000 reward to anyone who can help to locate and rescue more than 200 abducted schoolgirls.

Published:Wednesday | May 7, 2014 | 12:00 AM

LUCKNOW (AP):Of the dozens of criminal charges Atiq Ahmed faces, the one blaming him for the murder of a political rival tops the list.

Published:Wednesday | May 7, 2014 | 12:00 AM

WELLINGTON (AP):Unemployed New Zealanders are being offered cash by the government to move to the earthquake-damaged city of Christchurch and join in the rebuilding effort.The government announced yesterday...

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2014 | 1:36 PM

The White House says a US team will head to Nigeria as soon as possible to aid in the search for nearly 300 teenage girls abducted from their school more than three weeks ago.

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2014 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):Raising a worldwide alarm, the World Health Organization, announced yesterday that spread of polio is an international public health emergency that could grow in the next few months and unravel the nearly...

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2014 | 12:00 AM

LAGOS (AP): Nigeria's Islamic extremist leader threatened in a videotaped statement seen yesterday to sell the more than 200 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast of the country three weeks ago....

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates - TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CMC):The Florida Senate has voted to allow undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities, bringing...

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2014 | 12:00 AM

St George's:China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) Americas is ramping up its hiring of locals in the Caribbean, as work on a number of infrastructure development projects across the region are now in high gear.

Published:Monday | May 5, 2014 | 11:59 AM

Nigeria's Islamic extremist leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction more than 300 teenage schoolgirls in the remote northeast three weeks ago.

Published:Monday | May 5, 2014 | 9:07 AM

President Park Geun-hye met relatives of those on board yesterday and vowed that those responsible for the April 16 tragedy would be punished severely.

Published:Monday | May 5, 2014 | 12:00 AM

TUCKED AWAY in the Windsor Lodge community, which is located off the busy Bull Bay main road in St Andrew, are two refurbished buildings which are to be used as learning centres for children within in the area....

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