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PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): The emaciated inmate in black shorts lay on a thin mat in Haiti’s most notorious prison, isolated from other prisoners at Port-au-Prince’s National Penitentiary because of drug-resistant tuberculosis. He slowly sat up to talk...
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TORONTO (AP): The front page headline of the New York Post screamed ‘BLAME CANADA!’ The Boston Herald has ‘Thanks Canada’, and the Dallas Morning News front page said ‘US caught in a Canadian haze’. A thick, hazardous haze of wildfire smoke loomed...
NASSAU (CMC): United States Vice President Kamala Harris landed in The Bahamas on Thursday afternoon where she will be cohosting the US Caribbean leaders meeting with Bahamian Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis, who is the current chair of the...
KHERSON (AP): Yurii, a former Ukrainian soldier, knows all too well about living in his rickety attic: It was here, during Russia’s eight-month occupation of the southern city of Kherson, that he hid to avoid capture by the invaders. Now, the 51-...
MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his aides are bracing for a potential indictment in the classified documents investigation as prosecutors handling the probe were spotted Thursday at a Miami courthouse where...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted a memorial service in Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, officials said. A former Taliban police official was among those killed and at least...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The emaciated inmate in black shorts lay on a thin mat in Haiti's most notorious prison, isolated from other prisoners at Port-au-Prince's National Penitentiary because of drug-resistant tuberculosis...
NEW YORK (AP) — A thick, hazardous haze that's disrupting daily life for millions of people across the US and Canada, blotting out skylines and turning skies orange, could persist into the weekend. With weather systems expected to...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (AP) — Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party...
KHERSON (AP): The authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and supply drinking water to areas flooded by a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, in a growing humanitarian and ecological disaster along a river...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): A Venezuelan national is among three men detained by law enforcement authorities after a vessel was intercepted in the Gulf of Paria with marijuana worth more than TT$14 million (one TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) on Tuesday, the...
CARACAS (AP): Leaders of Venezuela’s fractured opposition are shaking voters’ hands and promising – yet again – that they will defeat President Nicolás Maduro at the ballot box. Maduro is backed by the all-powerful United Socialist Party of...
NEW YORK (AP): CNN ousted chief executive Chris Licht after a tumultuous year leading the struggling news network that culminated in a damning magazine profile and the realisation that he’d lost the confidence of the network’s journalists. The...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — As many as eight young workers were confirmed dead Tuesday in Mexico after they apparently tried to quit jobs at a call centre operated by a violent drug cartel that targeted Americans in a real estate scam. United...
NEW YORK (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the US East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze, holding up flights at major airports and prompting people to fish out...
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) — Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theatre in Richmond, Virginia, where a high school graduation ceremony had just ended, causing hundreds of attendees to flee in...
