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Britain's Prince Andrew, left, and Britain's King Charles III leave after the Requiem Mass service for the Duchess of Kent at Westminster Cathedral in London, Tuesday, September 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan, File)
December 9, 2025

King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of titles and evicts him from royal residence

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III on Thursday stripped his disgraced brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicted him from his royal residence after weeks of pressure to act over his…
Police officers look for clues by a basket lift used by thieves at the Louvre museum in Paris.
December 9, 2025

Louvre theft could make stolen Crown Jewels as famous as Mona Lisa

PARIS (AP): The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty Crown Jewels – long admired at home, little known abroad – to global fame. One…
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters, who reportedly withdrew from Turkey with their weapons, stand to attention during a ceremony in the Qandil area of northern Iraq.
December 9, 2025

Kurdish rebel group PKK says it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey

QANDIL (AP): A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq, as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered in…
The cargo aircraft that skidded off a Hong Kong airport runway.
December 9, 2025

Main wreckage of cargo plane recovered from waters after deadly crash

HONG KONG (AP): The main wreckage of a cargo plane that veered off a Hong Kong runway and plunged into the sea was recovered from the waters on Sunday, days after the deadly crash. The Boeing 747,…
Blanca Guerrero (left) and Gloria Sanabria, both 67 (right) ride in a limousine to a quinceañera celebration for women who never had a traditional 15th birthday party, organised by the Suenos Hechos Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia.
December 9, 2025

Grandmothers get quinceañera they never had

BOGOTÁ (AP): At age 72, Rosalba Casas finally celebrated her 15th birthday, donning a flowing pink dress and a tiara for the quinceañera she dreamed of as a teenager. “This is the happiest day…
In this 2009 photo students are seen holding posters of Raul Castro and Fidel Castro, and chanting slogans during a march to mark the 48th anniversary of the triumph of Cuban forces during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, in Havana.
December 9, 2025

Lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during Cuban missile crisis

Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from the brink of nuclear war by staring down Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev over the Cuban missile crisis. At…
The FOUMA container ship at the Kingstown Port.
December 9, 2025

New Kingstown Port inaugurated

KINGSTOWN (CMC): The new Kingstown Port opened on Saturday with the first ship calling at the facility shortly after the formalities, two days before St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) celebrated…
Farmworker Raul Cruz chops sugarcane in Niland, California on September 11, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Researchers mapping rural heat to protect farmworkers

CALIFORNIA (AP): In the summers, the sky is jet black when Raul Cruz arrives at this Imperial Valley sugarcane field to start his day. He chops, cleans and bundles the crop, taking heed as the sun…
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a round table on criminal cartels with President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House, on Thursday, in Washington.
December 9, 2025

10th strike on suspected drug-running boat in the Caribbean kills 6

WASHINGTON (AP): The US military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, blaming the Tren de Aragua gang for operating the vessel…