KYIV (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday the thousands of North Korean soldiers expected to reinforce Russian troops on the front line in Ukraine are pushing the almost three-year war beyond the borders of the warring parties...
SAN SALVADOR (AP) — More than 2,000 soldiers and 500 police officers surrounded a populous neighbourhood on the outskirts of El Salvador's capital on Monday in an effort to quash the remnants of gangs the president said were trying to set...
MONT-TREMBLANT, Quebec (AP) — A Quebec nationalist party said Tuesday it will work with other opposition parties in Canada's Parliament to topple Prime Minister Justin Trudeau' s minority government. Trudeau's Liberals...
BOSTON (AP) — The owner of two Boston-area pizza shops convicted of forced labour for using physical violence and threats of reprisal or deportation against employees living in the country illegally has been sentenced to more than eight years...
Pope Francis' child protection board called Tuesday for victims of clergy sexual abuse to have greater access to information about their cases and the right to compensation, in the first-ever global assessment of the Catholic Church...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) on Monday welcomed the decision of the Haiti-based Sunrise Airways to begin serving the island, saying that the new intra-Caribbean flight service creates unprecedented north-to-south access...
BRUSSELS (AP): NATO on Monday confirmed that North Korean troops have been sent to help Russia in its almost three-year war against Ukraine and said some have already been deployed in Russia’s Kursk border region, where Russia has been struggling...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces are escalating attacks, with outside powers “fueling the fire”, which is intensifying the nightmare of hunger and disease for millions, the United Nations chief said on Monday....
DAKAR (AP): Unidentified assailants killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack on a military base in the country’s west, Chad’s presidency said Monday. President Mahamat Deby Itno visited the base in Barkaram, an island in Chad’s Lake...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A woman accused of leaving her boyfriend to die after he was zipped into a suitcase in their home was found guilty of second-degree murder by a jury in central Florida. Four years after Sarah Boone was ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least seven people died when a building collapsed in a suburban area of Nigeria's capital over the weekend, a local official said Monday. “We have called off search and rescue because we excavated and there...
QUITO (AP) The first time the electricity went off at night, Linda Vidal went into panic mode. For more than a year, the 52-year-old Ecuadorian woman suffering from Hodgkin lymphoma and a chronic respiratory disease has relied on an electricity...
LONDON (AP) A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies. Britain insists it will not pay to make amends for the...
TOKYO (AP): Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ‘s ruling party, dogged by corruption scandals and plunging support, faces its toughest challenge in more than a decade in Sunday’s parliamentary election. This could set up a very shortlived time...
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AP): A United States federal judge on Friday ordered Virginia to restore more than 1,600 voter registrations that she said were illegally purged in the last two months in an effort to stop noncitizens from voting. US District...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): The St Vincent-based Eastern Caribbean Group of Companies (ECGC) has announced a five to 10 per cent reduction in the price of flour sold in several Caribbean countries. In a statement, the ECGC, founded in 1977, said the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Gangs on Thursday opened fire and hit a UN helicopter as it prepared to land in Port-au-Prince, marking the latest attack in Haiti’s capital as violence surges once again. No one was injured as several rounds of gunfire hit the...
BRADES (CMC): Former premier Reuben Meade led his newly formed United Alliance (UA) to victory in the general elections here, according to the preliminary figures released by the Montserrat Electoral Commission early on Friday morning. It said that...
LAVEEN VILLAGE, ArizONA (AP): President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologised to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a “blot on...
WELLINGTON (AP): King Charles III told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa on Friday that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged calls from some of Britain’s former colonies for a reckoning over its role in the...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): The grandson of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, said Friday the UK government denied him an entry visa because of his support for Hamas and his stance on the Israel-Hamas war. Mandla Mandela could not travel...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador has announced an increase in daily power cuts as the severe drought impacting the nation keeps lowering water levels for the key hydroelectric plants, the source of more than 70% of the country's electricity...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman was sentenced Friday to 53 years to life in prison in the death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved, and exposed to drugs before his 19-pound body was found buried in a Massachusetts...
A deadly outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states, federal health officials said Friday. A total of 22 people have now been hospitalised, and two have...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP): Britain’s leaders will likely face uncomfortable questions about reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade at a summit of nations it once colonised, after Caribbean leaders said they would thrust the matter into...
