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”...
NEW YORK (CMC) Haitian-American chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, assembly woman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, is calling for equitable aid for Caribbean and other migrants in the US. Her call comes following what she says is extensive...
The first LATAM Fiber Broadband Leaders Summit, hosted by Huawei, with the support of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Informa Markets, was held in São Paulo, Brazil last week. Industry leaders from Latin American organisations,...
MANAUS (AP): Communities dependent on the Amazon Rainforest’s waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on shore. And thousands of lifeless fish float on the water’s...
NEW DELHI (AP): Hundreds of rescuers dug through slushy debris and fast-flowing, icy water Friday in a search for survivors after a glacial lake overflowed and burst through a dam in India’s Himalayan north, a disaster that many had warned was...
HONG KONG (AP): A Hong Kong man was sentenced to four months in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books that were deemed to be “seditious publications”. Kurt Leung, a 38-year-old clerk, was sentenced after he admitted to...
NAIROBI (AP): Hundreds of Muslims in Kenya’s capital rallied Friday outside the Supreme Court to protest its decision last month to reaffirm the LGBTQ community’s right of association, saying that the verdict condoned immorality and demanding that...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has recorded 100 suspected deaths from cholera and more than 5,000 possible cases since late last month, prompting the government to impose restrictions to stop the spread of the disease,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy has shown “remarkable resilience'' but still bears deep scars from the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine and rising interest rates, the head of the International...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Biden administration is to resume deporting migrants to Venezuela, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. The process is expected to begin shortly, the officials said, though they did not provide specific...
VIENNA (AP): Developed countries pledged $9.3 billion to help poor nations tackle climate change at a conference held in the German city of Bonn on Thursday, authorities said. However, non-governmental groups criticised the outcome, saying the...
BEIRUT (AP): A drone attack hit a crowded military graduation ceremony Thursday in the Syrian city of Homs, killing 80 people and wounding 240, the health minister said, in one of the deadliest attacks on the war-torn country’s army in years. The...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): A magistrate’s court has dismissed a case against a Customs officer, who held up a placard in the capital during a protest against the COVID-19 vaccine mandate which came into effect in December 2021. Magistrate John...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden on Thursday defended his administration’s decision to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow for construction of roughly 20 miles of additional border wall, saying he had no choice but to use the Trump-...
AP: A New York man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of stalking a woman by flying his small plane over her home. Michael Arnold, 65, was arraigned in southern Vermont, where he kept his plane, on charges of aggravated stalking, violating an...
PARIS (AP): They creep, they crawl, they feast on your blood as you sleep. They may travel in your clothes or backpacks to find another person worth dining on – on the subway, or at the cinema. Bedbugs go where you go, and they have become a...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Four doctors were shot – three of them fatally – beside a beach in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in the early hours of Thursday in what may have been a politically motivated execution. Security camera footage obtained...
NAIROBI (AP): Kenyan lawmakers said Wednesday that parliamentary approval is required before the deployment of police to the Kenya-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti to combat gang violence that was approved by the UN Security Council this week....
SANTO DOMINGO (AP): The authorities in the Dominican Republic said Wednesday that an investigation is under way after the bodies of six newborns were found discarded at the entrance of a cemetery in the capital, Santo Domingo. The four girls and...
HAVANA (AP): A building in the historic centre of Havana that housed 13 families partially collapsed, leaving one person dead and at least two injured, Cuban authorities said Wednesday. Rescue teams were trying to access the building where two...
NEW DELHI (AP): A sudden heavy rainfall triggered flash floods Wednesday in northeastern India that swamped several towns, washed away a bridge and submerged army camps, killing eight civilians and leaving 23 soldiers missing, the army and news...
VENICE (AP): Residents of the Italian city of Venice stopped in dismay on Wednesday to pay respects to the 21 foreign tourists who were killed when an all-electric shuttle bus crashed through an overpass guard rail and fence, plunging more than 10...
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization authorised a second malaria vaccine on Monday, a decision that could offer countries a cheaper and more readily available option than the world's first shot against the parasitic...
LONDON (AP) — British police have opened an investigation into corporate manslaughter at a northern England hospital after a neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others when she worked there...
WASHINGTON (AP): Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in US history. The 216-210 vote, forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives, throws the House and its Republican leadership into...
