PARIS (AP): France’s bold decision to recognise the state of Palestine could help to shift conversations about the future of the Middle East, even if it’s unlikely to have an immediate impact for people in Gaza or on Israel’s war with Hamas. In a...
DEIR AL-BALAH (AP): Five starving children at a Gaza City hospital were wasting away, and nothing the doctors tried was working. The basic treatments for malnourishment that could save them had run out under Israel’s blockade. The alternatives were...
AP: Deportation flights from the remote Everglades immigration lockup known as “Alligator Alcatraz” have begun and are expected to increase soon, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Friday. The first flights operated by the Department of Homeland...
NEW YORK (AP): Disgraced former US Representative George Santos is expected to begin serving a seven-year prison sentence on Friday for the fraud charges that got him ousted from Congress. The New York Republican pleaded guilty last summer to...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados is reporting an increase in gastroenteritis cases and is urging the public to take extra precautions to prevent the spread of the illness, particularly during the Crop Over season. The Ministry of Health and...
The executive who was caught on camera embracing the CEO of her company at a Coldplay concert in a moment that went viral has resigned. The company, Astronomer, confirmed that its executive in charge of human resources has left. "Kristin Cabot...
ISTANBUL (AP) — New wildfires broke out on Turkey's Mediterranean coast Friday, as the government declared two western provinces in the country to be disaster zones. Images showed flames and smoke billowing into the sky close to high-rise...
BANGKOK (AP): Thai and Cambodian soldiers clashed in several areas along their border Thursday in a major escalation of their conflict that left at least 12 people dead, mostly civilians. The two sides fired small arms, artillery and rockets, and...
DAKAR (AP): Twelve people have been rescued from an informal gold mine in eastern Congo that collapsed over the weekend, trapping an unknown number of the thousands of miners working there, the provincial governor said Wednesday. The Lomera gold...
NEW YORK (AP): The fertility rate in the US dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman, new federal data released Thursday shows. The US was once among only a few developed countries with a rate that ensured each...
FORT PIERCE, Florida (AP) — A man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump last year in South Florida can represent himself during his trial, a federal judge ruled Thursday. US District Judge Aileen Cannon signed off on Ryan...
NEW YORK, CMC – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella policy and advocacy organisation that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York, says that new video shows inhumane conditions inside a...
MOSCOW (AP) — All 48 passengers and crew onboard a passenger plane that crashed in Russia's Far East have died, the head of the country's Amur region said in a statement Thursday. Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said earlier that it had...
AP: A judge on Wednesday rejected a Trump administration request to unseal transcripts from grand jury investigations of Jeffrey Epstein years ago in Florida, though a similar request for the work of a different grand jury is pending in New York....
AP: The fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police raids on their homes, watched their friends being thrown into jail and jumped between safe houses so they can stay in...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Three Haitian police officers and two civilians were killed in the country’s central region, where gang violence has surged, the government and a police union said Wednesday. The officers were members of a specialised unit...
Instagram parent company Meta has introduced new safety features aimed at protecting teens who use its platforms, including information about accounts that message them and an option to block and report accounts with one tap. The company also...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' top court in a landmark advisory opinion Wednesday said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and nations...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Three Haitian police officers and two civilians were killed in the country's central region, where gang violence has surged, the government and a police union said Wednesday. The officers were members of a...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenadian government has restricted public access to the male surgical ward of the General Hospital in response to recent safety concerns involving suspected gang-related activity in the vicinity of the hospital....
JOHANNESBURG (AP): A head-on collision between a minibus taxi and a haulage truck killed 17 people in northeastern Zimbabwe on Tuesday police said. Police spokesman Paul Nyathi said all 17 victims, including some pedestrians, died at the scene of...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): A High Court has awarded US$3.6 million to the family of a child after a botched delivery 12 years ago left their newborn boy with lifelong brain injuries and near-total physical disability. “I, therefore, find on a balance...
The head of a violent Ecuadorian gang accused of smuggling cocaine and firearms between South America and the US pleaded not guilty to drug and gun charges on Monday in New York. José Adolfo Macías Villamar, whose nickname is ‘Fito’, appeared in...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP): Hundreds of students protested Tuesday near the site of the crash of a Bangladesh air force training jet into a school in the nation’s capital, demanding accountability, compensation for victims’ families and the halt of...
SAN JUAN (AP): Puerto Rico’s government filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a private power company, claiming it is responsible for damages to customers’ appliances caused by chronic power outages in the US territory. The civil lawsuit by the consumer...
