ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor who has brought charges accusing former President Donald Trump and others of illegally trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state is asking the judge in the case to take steps to...
LONDON (AP) — A year after the death of Queen Elizabeth II triggered questions about the future of the British monarchy, King Charles III's reign has been marked more by continuity than transformation, by changes in style rather than...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Lee whirled through open waters on Thursday as forecasters warned it could become the first Category 5 storm of the Atlantic season. Lee was not expected to make landfall while on a projected path that...
CASTRIES (CMC): A 79-year-old patient, who was being transported by an ambulance to the OKEU Hospital in the capital, died on Wednesday when the vehicle crashed into a house in Dennery, east of here, officials have confirmed. Acting Fire Chief...
SAN JUAN (AP): Tropical Storm Lee strengthened into a hurricane on Wednesday as it churned through the open waters of the Atlantic on a path that would take it near the northeast Caribbean. The hurricane was located about 1,130 miles (1,815...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): A magistrate court has upheld a no-case submission filed on behalf of six people, including a pastor, who had been charged with human trafficking. Pastor Glen Awong, the head of Transformed Life Ministry, was jointly charged...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) Wednesday launched a campaign to increase public tolerance of gays as well to convince both government and opposition to amend legislation that violates the human...
ROSEAU (CMC): Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Wednesday expressed his country’s “profound gratitude to the People’s Republic of China” after Bejing agreed to fund the construction of six schools totalling US$30 million. Speaking at...
MUCUM, (AP): Flooding from a cyclone in southern Brazil washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets in several cities, killing at least 31 people and leaving 2,300 homeless, the authorities said Wednesday. More than 60...
KOSTIANTYNIVKA, (AP): The Russian missile that struck on Wednesday in eastern Ukraine turned an outdoor market into a fiery, blackened ruin where weeping civilians looked for loved ones among the mangled, burnt bodies scattered across the ground....
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalised abortion nationwide Wednesday, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state. That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalising...
MUCUM, Brazil (AP) — Flooding from a cyclone in southern Brazil washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets in several cities, killing at least 31 people and leaving 2,300 homeless, authorities said Wednesday. More...
China's Great Wall has been pierced by Genghis Khan, the Manchus, and now, allegedly, a couple of construction workers named Zheng and Wang who wanted a shortcut. Authorities in China arrested two people for smashing a path through a section of...
GENEVA (AP) — Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Last month was...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:09 AM
CAPE TOWN (AP): A retired Constitutional Court judge will lead an official inquiry into last week’s fire at a derelict building in downtown Johannesburg that left at least 76 people dead in one of South Africa’s worst tragedies, the government said...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:09 AM
AP: Hong Kong’s top court ruled Tuesday that the government should provide a framework for recognising same-sex partnerships, in a landmark decision for the city’s LGBTQ+ community. The ruling did not grant full marriage rights to same-sex couples...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:09 AM
TALLINN (AP): Belarus’ authoritarian president on Tuesday banned citizens from renewing their passports while staying abroad, which could force those who fled the country amid growing repression, to return to maintain their travel documents. An...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:09 AM
GOODHUE, Minnesota (AP): As Goodhue Police Chief Josh Smith struggled this summer to fill vacancies in his small department, he warned the town’s City Council that unless pay and benefits improved, finding new officers would never happen. When...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:09 AM
NEW DELHI (AP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s Group of 20 summit, in a move that reflects his Hindu nationalist party’s efforts...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed Tuesday to extend their voluntary oil production cuts through the end of this year, trimming 1.3 million barrels of crude out of the global market and boosting energy prices....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's health episodes show "no evidence" of a stroke or seizure disorder, the Capitol physician said Tuesday, but his statement still left questions about the apparent...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus' authoritarian president on Tuesday banned citizens from renewing their passports while staying abroad, which could force those who fled the country amid growing repression to return to maintain their...
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish football federation fired women's national team coach Jorge Vilda on Tuesday, less than three weeks after his team won the Women's World Cup title and amid the controversy involving suspended federation...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Climate change is “relentlessly eating away” at Africa's economic progress and it's time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on polluters, Kenya's president declared Tuesday as...
LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland's top police officer resigned Monday following a series of controversies that plagued the police force, including what he described as an “industrial scale” data breach. The Northern Ireland...
