ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Monday urged the United States to settle its differences with Venezuela "through diplomacy and dialogue”, reiterating that the Caribbean region should be a zone of peace...
WASHINGTON (AP): The United States’ most advanced aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday in a display of US military power, raising questions about what the new influx of troops and weaponry could signal for the Trump...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The World Bank says its board of executive directors has approved a new project in Haiti aimed at improving resilient rural accessibility and road connectivity in the south and north departments. The Washington-based financial...
BOGOTA (AP): Colombia’s human rights ombudswoman said Saturday that seven children were killed in a controversial airstrike against a rebel group in the country’s south earlier this week, as the administration of President Gustavo Petro steps up...
BERLIN (AP): Pedestrians in the German city of Nuremberg made way for hundreds of bleating sheep on Sunday as a flock of the animals was herded through downtown on its way to its winter quarters. Curious bystanders, cellphones in hand to capture...
MANILA (AP): Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in the capital in the largest rally so far to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal that has implicated powerful members of Congress and top government...
BELEM (AP): Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian countryside near the town of Novo Repartimento. She’s piercing their ears. Their new jewellery – ear tags,...
CARACAS, CMC – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is warning that Trinidad and Tobago’s joint military drills with the United States could “threaten peace” in the Caribbean. He made the statement in the aftermath of Trinidad and Tobago’s...
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Some wore black dresses to signify a funeral for fossil fuels, hundreds wore red shirts, symbolizing the blood of colleagues fighting to protect the environment and others chanted, waved huge flags or held up signs Saturday in...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Nineteen West African nationals deported by the US to Ghana have been moved to an unknown location, a lawyer for one of the deportees said. Ana Dionne-Lanier, who represents one of the nationals, told The Associated Press on...
President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without pay cheques, stranded scores of travellers at airports and generated long...
MELBOURNE (AP): Australia’s highest court on Wednesday rejected Russia’s challenge to a law that evicted the state on security grounds from a site where Moscow wanted to build its new embassy. Seven High Court judges unanimously ruled that while...
CAIRO (AP) — At least 42 people are missing and presumed dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Libya last week, the UN's migration agency said on Wednesday. Seven survivors have been located after the vessel's engine...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's government rallied to the defence of the BBC on Tuesday after allegations of bias from its critics and the threat of a lawsuit from US President Donald Trump over the way the broadcaster edited a speech he made after losing...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber struck outside the gates of a district court in Islamabad on Tuesday, detonating his explosives next to a police car and killing 12 people, Pakistan's interior minister said, the latest in an uptick in violence...
Air travellers could face more frustration as busy US airports need to meet a higher Federal Aviation Administration target for reducing flights Tuesday after already cancelling thousands to scale back demands on the nation's aviation system...
LONDON (AP) — US President Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC over the way a speech he made was edited in a documentary aired by Britain's national broadcaster. BBC chairman Samir Shah on Monday apologised for the "error of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced the latest in a series of strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs, killing six people in attacks on two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The dual strikes on Sunday...
SACRAMENTO (AP) : Acorn squash, Spam and baby food lined the shelves on a recent day at a college food pantry in California’s capital city, a resource that students receiving federal aid to purchase groceries may have to increasingly rely on...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP): A boat carrying about 300 migrants from Myanmar capsized last week in the Indian Ocean close to the maritime border between Thailand and Malaysia, with at least one body recovered floating in the sea, 10 rescued, and dozens...
LONDON (AP): Britain is sending equipment and personnel to Belgium after a spate of drone sightings near airports, the head of the UK military said Sunday. In the past week, both Belgium’s main international airport at Brussels and Liege, one of...
MANILA (AP): Judy Bertuso, 63, leans forward inside a bright orange tent set up on the floor of a basketball court in Quezon City, carefully spooning porridge into her husband Apollo’s mouth. Apollo, 65, sits in a wheelchair as he recovers from a...
PARIS (AP): The diamond and emerald-studded crown of Empress Eugénie, which was found damaged outside the Louvre after apparently being dropped during the October 19 robbery, will be restored as a symbol of “renaissance”, the museum’s director...
DODOMA (AP): Prosecutors in Tanzania on Friday charged dozens of people with treason over their alleged roles in violence surrounding the country’s disputed election. The charge sheet identified 76 suspects accused of intending to obstruct the...
