TOKYO (AP): The defence ministers of Japan, the UK and Italy agreed to accelerate the joint development of a next-generation fighter jet, and announced that a trilateral government organisation would be established to work with the parties...
ALBANY: (AP) Democrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York’s ballot because they believed it could energise liberals eager to protect abortion rights. Republicans are now hoping the same amendment will ignite a fire under people...
Two years after reaching a historic biodiversity agreement, countries will gather next week to determine whether they are making progress on efforts to save Earth’s plant and animal life. The agreement signed by 196 countries at the United Nations...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday cancelled his trip to Russia for a BRICS summit after an accident at home that left him with a cut on the back of his head, slightly above the neck, his office...
Two years after reaching a historic biodiversity agreement, countries will gather next week to determine whether they are making progress on efforts to save Earth’s plant and animal life. The agreement signed by 196 countries at the United Nations...
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (AP): Turnout for early in-person voting started strong last Thursday in the presidential battleground of North Carolina, including in mountainous areas where Hurricane Helene destroyed property and upended lives but...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): South Korea’s spy agency said Friday that North Korea has dispatched troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine. If confirmed, the move would bring a third country into the war and intensify a standoff between North...
HAVANA (AP): A massive outage left millions of Cubans without power and prompted the government on Friday to implement emergency measures to slash demand, including suspending classes, shutting down some state-owned workplaces and canceling non-...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Multiple gangs attacked several communities in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Friday, setting fire to homes and a church as bullets whizzed through the area. At least one woman was killed as gangs opened fire in...
JERUSALEM (AP): A top political leader of Hamas, Khalil al-Hayya, on Friday confirmed the death of the group’s leader, Yahya Sinwar. Al-Hayyaa, in a televised statement, reiterated the Palestinian militant group’s stance that it will not release...
MELBOURNE (AP): King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived in Sydney on Friday for the first Australian visit by a reigning monarch in more than a decade, a trip that has rekindled debate about the nation’s constitutional links to Britain. The...
WASHINGTON (AP): Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered”, a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist”, according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate...
JERUSALEM: Israel’s defence minister has hailed the Israeli military for killing Hamas’ leader, Yahya Sinwar, Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant said Sinwar’s killing sends “a clear message to the residents of Gaza. The man who brought disaster and...
MIAMI (CMC): Former United States President Donald J. Trump continues to double down on claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating their neighbours’ pets, such as dogs and cats. At a Univision town hall in Florida on Wednesday...
DHAKA (AP): A special court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants on Thursday for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others, including her close aides, on charges of crimes against humanity during a student-led uprising in July and August...
Meta says it has laid off some employees, including staff at WhatsApp And Instagram, to realign its resources with its “strategic goals.” A Meta spokesperson confirmed in a statement that some teams were making changes to align with...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants on Thursday for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others, including her close aides, on charges of crimes against humanity during a student-led...
CAPE TOWN (AP): Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades, the United Nations’ food agency...
ABUJA (AP): More than 140 people, including children, were killed in Nigeria when an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel, emergency services said Wednesday. Dozens more were injured. Deadly tanker...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Victims of domestic violence in New Zealand will be allowed to cut ties to abusive spouses more quickly after lawmakers unanimously voted Wednesday to exempt them from a mandatory two-year separation period...
LONDON (AP) — A new bill aiming to legalise assisted dying in Britain is to be introduced in Parliament on Wednesday, marking the first time in nearly a decade that the House of Commons will debate allowing doctors to help end...
ALBUQUERQUE (AP): Ten times as many migrants died in New Mexico near the US-Mexico border in each of the last two years compared with just five years ago as smuggling gangs steer them — exhausted, dehydrated and malnourished — mostly into the hot...
MOSCOW (AP): A Russian man was rescued in the stormy Sea of Okhotsk after surviving for more than two months in a tiny inflatable boat that lost its engine, but his brother and nephew have died, officials said Tuesday. The prosecutor’s office in...
NEW DELHI (AP): A diplomatic row that has strained bilateral relations between India and Canada for over a year has boiled over as the countries expelled each other’s top diplomats over the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada and allegations of...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's new president acknowledged Tuesday that three civilians including a child died in two shootouts involving the military last week in a violent border city. President Claudia Sheinbaum said a...
