AP: A homeless Kansas man has been arrested for the rape and killing of a five-year-old girl, the authorities said on Tuesday. Officers responded just before 6 p.m. on Monday to a medical call at a Topeka gas station and found a fire crew...
SAN JUAN (AP): Tropical storm Philippe dropped heavy rains in the northeast Caribbean on Tuesday, forcing governments to close schools in the region as forecasters warned of flash flooding. The storm was located about 55 miles (90 kilometres)...
NAIROBI (AP): Kenya’s president on Tuesday welcomed the UN Security Council’s resolution to send a Kenya-led multinational armed force to Haiti to help combat violent gangs and pledged that it will “not fail the people of Haiti.” President William...
ABUJA, (AP): At least 29 Nigerien soldiers have been killed by jihadis near the country’s border with Mali, Niger’s junta said, as they struggle to end a spate of attacks. More than 100 extremists used homemade explosives to target the West...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): A fire swept has swept through the Yacht Club in English Harbour on the southeastern coast of Antigua, destroying several businesses and leaving more than 100 people unemployed. Prime Minister Gaston Browne in a message posted on...
TORONTO (AP): India has told Canada to remove 41 of its 62 diplomats in the country, an official familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, ramping up a confrontation between the two countries over Canadian accusations that India may have been...
ROSEAU (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are hoping to raise three main issues during their summit with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa later this month, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said on Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States has eased the entry of refugees from the Caribbean and Latin America, even as New York and other states vehemently protest the unprecedented number of Caribbean and other nationals seeking refugee and asylum...
NEW YORK (AP): Aggrieved and defiant, former President Donald Trump sat through hours of sometimes testy opening statements on Monday in a fraud lawsuit that could cost him control of Trump Tower and other prized properties. “Disgraceful trial,”...
BAGHDAD (AP): Christian religious leaders in northern Iraq called for an international investigation on Monday into a deadly wedding fire that killed more than 100 people last week and slammed the government’s probe, which had blamed the blaze on...
BRAUNAU AM INN, (AP): Work started on Monday on turning the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station, a project meant to make it unattractive as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator. The...
MADRID (AP): Authorities in the southern Spanish city of Murcia said Monday that two people believed to have been in a nightclub where 13 others died in a fire are still missing and that the club was operating without a permit. The town hall’s...
ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): Attorney General Levi Peter has issued an apology to the unsuccessful opposition nominee for the post President of Dominica, saying that his reference to her as a “drumstick” had been taken out of context. During last week’...
ROSEAU (CMC): Attorney General Levi Peter is under increasing pressure to resign after he referred to the opposition nominee for the post of president of Dominica as “ a drumstick” . During last week’s parliamentary vote for the new president to...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): The head of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation that ended a two-week visit here in Antigua and Barbuda is recommending that the authorities continue their efforts to strengthen the main engines of growth. Assistant to...
Tens of thousands of now-homeless people have streamed into Armenia from the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, controlled by its emboldened adversary, Azerbaijan. Swarms of protesters are filling the streets of the Armenian capital of Yerevan...
Bengaluru (AP): Sanjay Chauhan witnessed monsoon rains lash down over his home and farm in the Indian Himalayas this year with a magnitude and intensity he’s never experienced before. “Buildings have collapsed, roads are broken, there were so many...
Karachi (AP): Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison. Last month, the government in Sindh introduced a bill that would imprison parents for up to one...
TAPACHULA, Chiapas (AP) — At least 10 Cuban migrants died and 17 others were seriously injured after a freight truck they were riding in crashed on a highway in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala. The National Immigration...
MADRID, Spain (AP) — A fire broke out in a nightclub in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia on Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring several others, authorities said. The fire started around 6 a.m. in the popular Teatre nightclub and...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — The Panama Canal announced Saturday it will reduce the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day, from 32 in August, due to a drought that has reduced the supply of fresh water needed to operate the...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison. Last month, the government in Sindh introduced a bill that would imprison...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's leader increased the wages of some government workers in last-minute efforts to appease labour unions whose planned strike this week could shut down government offices in all sectors of Africa...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Five people were killed and five were seriously injured after a truck overturned in central Illinois, causing a toxic substance to leak from its cargo and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of area residents,...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Policemen shoved and wrestled with justices of Guatemala's top electoral tribunal Saturday, as prosecutors sought to seize the tally sheets of votes from the August presidential elections. There were harrowing scenes...
