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TORONTO (AP) — Canada's government said Wednesday it reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million Canadian dollars annually to the country's news industry to comply with a new Canadian law requiring...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Tighter water restrictions for drought-stricken northeast Spain went into effect Wednesday when authorities in Catalonia said that Barcelona may need to have fresh water shipped in by boat in the coming...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy, which has proved surprisingly resilient this year, is expected to falter next year under the strain of wars, still-elevated inflation and continued high interest rates. The Paris-based Organization...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government on Wednesday proposed new laws that would place behind bars some of the 141 migrants who have been set free in the three weeks since the High Court ruled their indefinite...
WASHINGTON (AP): Hunter Biden offered on Tuesday to testify publicly before Congress, striking a defiant note in response to a subpoena from Republicans and setting up a potential high-stakes face-off, even as a separate special counsel probe...
UTTARKASHI (AP): All 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in northern India for more than two weeks were pulled out on Tuesday, bringing an end to a drawn-out rescue mission that had grabbed the country’s...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 rattled parts of Barbados on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries. The Trinidad-based University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre reported...
ABUJA (AP): Hundreds of rebels were killed as they tried to seize a town in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, the state broadcaster reported, in one of the largest clashes in recent years in the West African nation under threat from fighters linked...
THE HAGUE (CMC): The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Tuesday said it would deliver, on Friday, its Order on Guyana’s request for ”the indication of provisional measures” aimed at preventing Venezuela from holding a referendum over the...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 metres (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75 — 14 of them critically, the mine operator said Tuesday...
ATLANTA (AP) — Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former US first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Attacks on Sierra Leone's main military barracks and prisons were a failed coup attempt and have resulted in the arrest of 13 military officers, the government's spokesman said Tuesday. The attackers attempted to...
UTTARKASHI, India (AP) — All 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in northern India for more than two weeks were pulled out on Tuesday, bringing a happy end to a drawn-out rescue mission that had gripped the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan High Court on Tuesday struck out key clauses of a contentious finance law that has been blamed for significantly raising taxes and the cost of living in East Africa's largest economy. High court judges...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): VICE-PRESIDENT BHARRAT Jagdeo has warned Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro not to ”ever question” the resolve of Guyana, reiterating that the population remains united in the face of claims by Caracas to the ownership of the...
BARCELONA (AP): The top Palestinian diplomat made a plea to extend the fragile ceasefire in Gaza that is hours from expiring at a meeting of European Union (EU) members and Middle Eastern and North African countries that focused on diplomatic...
