KIGALI, Rwanda (AP): Rwanda on Tuesday became the third African nation to agree to accept deportees from the United States under the Trump administration’s plans to send migrants to countries they have no ties with to get them off American soil....
AP: The man wanted in the killings of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a front yard in western Tennessee last week has been arrested, police said. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was taken into custody amid a search on...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): President Irfaan Ali has paid tribute to veteran educator, Daniel Williams, a candidate of the ruling People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) for the September 1 general and regional elections, who collapsed and died while...
CASTRIES (CMC): The Roman Catholic Church says while it firmly rejects all forms of violence, hatred, or unjust discrimination against persons who experience same-sex attraction, it wanted to reaffirm that sexual acts outside of the bond of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): The Civil Protection Department (DPC) Tuesday urged people to remain “vigilant” as people fled their homes late Monday night after an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 on the Richter scale was recorded near Croix-des-...
COCKBURN TOWN, Turks and Caicos Islands (CMC): The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) has announced an immediate six-month moratorium on the issuance of first-time work permits to Haitians, citing escalating violence in the French-speaking Caribbean...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump’s day began typically enough, with a television interview and a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Then it took an unexpected and unusual turn when he appeared on the roof of the White House’s...
BIRMINGHAM: After a 25-year forced exile in Poland, 72-year-old George Lee, a member of the Windrush generation, returned to the United Kingdom last week, arriving at Birmingham Airport. Lee, born in Clarendon, Jamaica, arrived in the UK in 1961...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Eight people including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child remained missing Monday after gunmen stormed an orphanage in Haiti, the latest attack in an area controlled by a powerful collection of armed gangs....
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP): Dozens of Palestinians were killed or wounded on Monday as desperate crowds headed toward food distribution points and airdropped parcels in the Gaza Strip, according to witnesses and local health officials. Israel’s...
WASHINGTON (AP): The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to US$15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many. In a notice to be published...
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a room-temperature building admitted in federal court Monday that she cheated customers and defrauded the federal government out of nearly $900,000...
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Henriette formed Monday in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said. Henriette was centred 895 miles (1,440 kilometres) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, according to the...
LONDON (AP): Britain says people who advertise fake passports or people-smuggling services on social medial could face up to five years in prison, in the government's latest effort to deter migrants from crossing the English Channel in small...
KYIV (AP): Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies say they had uncovered a major graft scheme involving inflated military procurement contracts, just two days after Ukraine’s parliament voted to restore the agencies’ independence. In a joint statement...
LAGOS (AP): It is like any other church in Nigeria ‘s megacity of Lagos. A lectern faces rows of plastic chairs. A biblical quote is written on a beam above. There is a music section, with a set of drums. Sash-wearing church wardens move around to...
ZAPOPAN, Mexico (AP): First the scientists dress dead swine in clothes, then they dispose of the carcasses. Some they wrap in packing tape, others they chop up. They stuff the animals into plastic bags or wrap them in blankets. They cover them in...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Former US Vice President Kamala Harris will not run for California governor next year, leaving open the possibility that she could mount a third run for the White House in 2028. “Over the past six months, I have spent time...
Associated Press: International outcry over images of emaciated children and increasing reports of hunger-related deaths have pressured Israel to let more aid into the Gaza Strip. This week, Israel paused fighting in parts of Gaza and airdropped...
WASHINGTON (AP): A federal judge agreed on Friday to temporarily block the Trump administration’s efforts to expand fast-track deportations of immigrants who legally entered the US under a process known as humanitarian parole – a ruling that could...
SAO PAULO (AP): Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said Friday that the country’s top court will not yield to sanctions or foreign pressure over the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro, which is expected to take place later...
BOGOTA (AP): Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was sentenced Friday to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and bribery in a historic case that gripped the South American nation and tarnished the conservative strongman’s legacy. The...
ST GEORGE’S: Governor General, Dame Cecile La Grenade, has given official approval to two pieces of legislation that will stop State officials from taking the Oath of Allegiance or the Affirmation of Allegiance to Britain’s King, his heirs and...
WASHINGTON (AP): In a warning to Russia, President Donald Trump said Friday he’s ordering the repositioning of two US nuclear submarines “based on the highly provocative statements” of the country’s former president Dmitry Medvedev. Trump posted...
NEW YORK (CMC): New York Attorney General Letitia James has welcomed a court order upholding birthright citizenship for Caribbean and other immigrants. A United States District Court judge in the District of Massachusetts has ruled that birthright...
