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No aid allowed to flow until Hamas releases hostages

Published:Friday | October 13, 2023 | 12:06 AM

Jerusalem (AP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed American support to Israel on Thursday as its military pulverised the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with airstrikes and prepared for a possible ground invasion. As Palestinians tried to stock up...

New York governor backs suspension of ‘right to shelter’ as migrant influx strains city

Published:Thursday | October 12, 2023 | 4:33 PM

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul is supporting the city's effort to suspend a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to homeless people, as a large influx of migrants overwhelms the city...

US Senator Bob Menendez and wife accused of being unregistered agents of Egypt

Published:Thursday | October 12, 2023 | 12:37 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — United States federal prosecutors have rewritten their indictment against Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife to charge them with conspiring to have him act as an agent of Egypt and Egyptian officials. The...

Lidia dissipates after killing 2, injuring 2 near Mexico resort

Published:Thursday | October 12, 2023 | 9:56 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Lidia dissipated Wednesday after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerto Vallarta. One person was killed by a falling tree, another drowned in a swollen river and two others were injured after the...

UN suspends and detains 8 peacekeepers in Congo over allegations of sexual exploitation

Published:Thursday | October 12, 2023 | 8:56 AM

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The United Nations has suspended and detained eight peacekeepers in eastern Congo over allegations of sexual exploitation, a UN official said. A statement from the UN on Wednesday said it has taken “strong...

As strikes devastate Gaza, Israel forms unity gov’t to oversee war

Published:Thursday | October 12, 2023 | 12:07 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a leading opposition figure on Wednesday created a war-time Cabinet overseeing the fight to avenge a stunning weekend attack by Hamas militants. In the sealed-off Gaza Strip ruled by...

Earthquake shakes area where recent quake killed over 2,000

Published:Thursday | October 12, 2023 | 12:07 AM

CHAHAK, (AP): Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country’s...

Russian fines man for criticising Ukraine war

Published:Thursday | October 12, 2023 | 12:07 AM

TALLINN, (AP): Human rights advocate Oleg Orlov was fined about US$1,500 on Wednesday for criticising the war in Ukraine, the latest step in a relentless crackdown on activists, independent journalists and opposition figures. Orlov, co-chairman of...

El Salvador sends 4,000 security forces into three communities to pursue gang members

Published:Wednesday | October 11, 2023 | 2:04 PM

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador sent more than 4,000 security forces into three communities on the outskirts of the capital to root out gang members Wednesday, as President Nayib Bukele prepared to request another extension of...

6.3 magnitude earthquake shakes part of western Afghanistan where an earlier quake killed over 2,000

Published:Wednesday | October 11, 2023 | 8:32 AM

CHAHAK, Afghanistan (AP) — Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most...

‘They are breaking us’

Published:Wednesday | October 11, 2023 | 12:06 AM

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP): Collapsed buildings, mangled infrastructure, streets turned into fields of rubble. Scenes of violence and destruction in the long-blockaded Gaza Strip have filled the world’s airwaves throughout four wars and countless...

Palestinians scramble for safety as Israel pounds sealed-off Gaza Strip to punish Hamas

Published:Wednesday | October 11, 2023 | 12:06 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): ISRAELI WARPLANES hammered the Gaza Strip neighbourhood by neighbourhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the...

Judge to rule in lawsuit involving Rowley next year

Published:Wednesday | October 11, 2023 | 12:06 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): A High Court judge has set March 8 next year as the date when she will deliver her ruling in a defamation lawsuit brought against Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, by an opposition legislator, Dr Roodal Moonilal. Moonilal brought...

China touts its Belt and Road infrastructure lending as an alternative for international development

Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 1:39 PM

BEIJING (AP) — China is touting its 10-year-old Belt and Road Initiative as an alternative model for economic development, releasing a government report that praises the programme while glossing over criticism that it has saddled poor...

Atlanta police chief fires officer after traffic stop led to black deacon’s death

Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 1:30 PM

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta's police chief on Tuesday fired an officer who shocked a 62-year-old black church deacon with a stun gun during a dispute over a traffic ticket, leading to the man's death. Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said...

Nigerian court sentences policeman to death for killing lawyer in rare ruling

Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 11:51 AM

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian court sentenced Monday a police officer to death for shooting and killing a lawyer in the commercial hub of Lagos. Many applauded the rare sentence as a punitive measure against rampant cases of police abuse...

IMF outlook worsens for ‘limping’ world economy, Mideast war poses new uncertainty

Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 8:51 AM

The world economy has lost momentum from the impact of higher interest rates, the invasion of Ukraine, and widening geopolitical rifts, and it now faces new uncertainty from the war between Israel and Hamas militants, the International...

Country reels from earthquake that killed thousands

Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 12:10 AM

ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP): People dug through the rubble of the quake in western Afghanistan for their few possessions, but the material losses seemed unimportant. Saturday’s 6.3 magnitude quake killed and injured thousands when it levelled an...

Iran, Hezbollah had no role in Israel incursion, says senior Hamas official

Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 12:07 AM

BEIRUT (AP): A senior Hamas official on Monday said only a small number of top commanders inside Gaza knew about the wide-ranging incursion launched into Israel, but that allies like Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah “will join the battle if Gaza is...

Jamaica, Antigua condemn Hamas attack on Israel

Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 12:07 AM

ST JOHN’S, (CMC): Antigua and Barbuda Sunday became the second Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to condemn the ‘terrorist’ attack’ on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Foreign Affairs Minister E.P. Chet Greene said Antigua “...

Attorney general asks authorities to act against pro-democracy protests

Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 12:07 AM

GUATEMALA CITY (AP): Guatemala’s attorney general on Monday called for the government to act against largely peaceful protesters, who have taken to the streets for weeks demanding her resignation for what they say are clear attempts to undermine...

Four members of Florida family sent to prison for selling fake COVID-19 cure through online church

Published:Monday | October 9, 2023 | 2:41 PM

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man and his three adult sons have been sent to prison for selling a toxic industrial bleach as a fake COVID-19 cure through their online church. A federal judge in Miami on Friday sentenced Jonathan Grenon, 37, and...

Kenya court temporarily bars deployment of security forces to Haiti

Published:Monday | October 9, 2023 | 12:48 PM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's high court temporarily barred on Monday the deployment of the country's security forces to other countries for two weeks until a case filed by a local politician challenging such action as...

Mexico bracing for one-two punch from Tropical Storms Lidia and Max

Published:Monday | October 9, 2023 | 11:05 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is bracing for a one-two punch from Tropical Storms Lidia and Max, which are expected to make landfall Monday and Tuesday in different parts of the country. Max strengthened to tropical storm status and was expected...

British gov't tries to assure UK Supreme Court it’s safe to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda

Published:Monday | October 9, 2023 | 8:27 AM

LONDON (AP) — A lawyer sought to assure the United Kingdom Supreme Court on Monday that the British government had adequately analysed the risks of sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda and would have people “on the ground”...

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