HAVANA (CMC): The Government of Cuba has announced that banks will again accept cash deposits in US dollars following the lifting of a ban prohibiting the practice. Cubans had been unable to deposit dollars in cash into their accounts at banks...
NIAMEY (AP): One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country’s ousted president or face military intervention, the junta has not acquiesced. No military action has been taken, and the coup leaders appear...
LAHAINA (AP): Richy Palalay so closely identifies with his Maui home town that he had a tattoo artist permanently ink 'Lahaina Grown' on his forearms when he was 16. But a chronic housing shortage and an influx of second-home buyers and wealthy...
The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide a framework for cooperation between the two organisations and assist with delivering services to the...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Seven former prime ministers say they are “deeply disturbed by the continued deterioration of the general situation” in the French-speaking CARICOM country and are calling for “a spirit of openness for a constructive...
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP): Hawaii emergency management records show no indication that warning sirens sounded before people ran for their lives from wildfires on Maui that killed at least 55 people and wiped out a historic town. Instead, officials sent...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP): Ecuador will hold six Colombian men for at least a month as the country probes their involvement in the slaying of a presidential candidate whose life’s work was fighting crime and corruption, the national prosecutor’s office...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP): It was a funeral no one had envisaged; Sadig Abbas’ lifeless body was lowered hastily into a shallow unmarked grave in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, not long after dawn. Even the few family members and neighbours who could attend...
NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried left a federal courtroom in handcuffs Friday when a judge revoked his bail after concluding that the fallen cryptocurrency wiz had repeatedly tried to influence witnesses against him. Bankman-...
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit police chief said he's setting new policies on the use of facial-recognition technology after a woman who was eight months pregnant said she was wrongly charged with robbery and carjacking in a case that was...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A man in Bosnia killed his ex-wife while streaming the slaying live on Instagram and then killed two other people while on the run before taking his own life Friday, according to police and media reports....
Record hot ocean temperatures and a tardy El Niño are doubling the chances of a nasty Atlantic hurricane season this summer and fall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. With the Atlantic hurricane season...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's transformation into a major drug trafficking hub and the ensuing three-year surge of violence is weighing on the nation following the killing of a presidential candidate whose life's work was to fight...
LONDON (AP): Northern Ireland’s top police officer apologised Thursday for what he described as an “industrial scale” data breach in which the personal information of more than 10,000 officers and staff was released to the public. The incident is...
QUITO, (AP): An Ecuadorian presidential candidate who recently pledged to root out corruption and lock up the country’s “thieves” was fatally shot at a political rally in the capital as the South American country reels from drug-related crime and...
WAILUKU, (AP): THE SEARCH of the wildfire wreckage on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday revealed a wasteland of burned out homes and obliterated communities as firefighters battled the stubborn blaze that has already claimed 36 lives, making...
NEW YORK (AP) — About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the US, the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which posted the numbers, has not yet...
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — Police in Alabama on Wednesday arrested two more boaters on misdemeanour assault charges in connection with a riverside brawl that drew national attention. Major Saba Coleman of the Montgomery Police Department...
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — The search of the wildfire wreckage on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday revealed a wasteland of burned out homes and obliterated communities as firefighters battled the stubborn blaze that has already claimed 36...
BUCHAREST (AP): After receiving distressed text messages from a young man worried about the conditions his friend was living in at a social care home in central Romania, Georgiana Pascu arranged an impromptu visit to inspect the facility. “In...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP): Flaming cars, violent clashes, dozens of people detained. As the country marks 30 years of independence, festivals held by Eritrea’s diaspora in Europe and North America have been attacked by exiles, whom the regime...
TOKYO (AP): Nagasaki marked the 78th anniversary of the US atomic bombing on Wednesday with the mayor urging world powers to abolish nuclear weapons, saying nuclear deterrence also increases risks of nuclear war. Shiro Suzuki made the remark...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — An Ecuadorian presidential candidate known for speaking up against corruption was shot and killed Wednesday at a political rally in the capital, an attack that comes amid a wave of startling violence in the South...
PROVO, Utah (AP) — An armed Utah man accused of making violent threats against President Joe Biden was shot and killed by FBI agents hours before the president landed in the state Wednesday, authorities said. Special agents were trying to...
NEPTUNE BEACH, Florida (AP) — A single ticket sold in Florida is good for a $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot, ending weeks of anticipation over who would win the eye-popping top prize. A Publix grocery store in Neptune Beach sold the...
