PARIS (AP): French authorities announced the discovery Sunday of a body on a beach used as one of the launch points for migrants attempting the perilous sea crossing from northern France to the UK on flimsy inflatable boats. Attempted crossings...
DUBAI (AP) Iran’s theocracy prepared Sunday for a possible confrontation with the West after the United Nations reimposed sanctions over its nuclear programme, even as some pushed for continued negotiations to ease the economic pain squeezing the...
MIAMI (AP) — Dangerous tropical weather brewed Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean with Humberto intensifying into a powerful Category 4 hurricane and a separate weather system taking aim at the Southeast US. The mayor of South Carolina's port city...
Published:Saturday | September 27, 2025 | 11:41 AM
DES MOINES, CMC-The Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) Friday confirmed that the superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, Dr Ian Roberts, had been arrested by federal immigration authorities. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
Published:Saturday | September 27, 2025 | 12:08 AM
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed says Haiti is “at the eye of a storm” with armed gangs tearing apart communities and families being forced from their homes. Addressing the high-level meeting on...
Published:Saturday | September 27, 2025 | 12:08 AM
LONDON (AP): Russia is selling military equipment and technology to China that could help Beijing prepare an airborne invasion of Taiwan, according to an analysis of leaked Russian documents by a UK-based defence and security forum. The Royal...
Published:Saturday | September 27, 2025 | 12:07 AM
TALLAHASSEE (AP): Over the past five months, Florida law -enforcement officials have arrested more than 6,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a US Border Patrol official announced Friday, as the state continues its aggressive...
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Humberto formed Friday in the Atlantic Ocean on track to become a major hurricane, while forecasters monitored a nearby tropical disturbance that could bring dangerous weather to the southeastern United States in the coming...
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said...
Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute him and other perceived political enemies...
HOUSTON (AP): A Texas man faced execution Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter during a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the child’s body. Blaine Milam, 35, was condemned for...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): One of Haiti’s leaders on Thursday asked the world to help his troubled Caribbean country fight what he characterised as a war against relentless gang violence and widespread hunger. Laurent Saint-Cyr, head of Haiti’s...
PARIS (AP): A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya, a verdict that the still...
Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 12:41 PM
Starbucks said Thursday it's closing hundreds of stores in the US, Canada and Europe and laying off 900 nonretail employees as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround. The Seattle coffee giant said store closures would start immediately...
Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 11:42 AM
SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon has reached a historic US$2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after...
Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 11:00 AM
ST PETERSBURG, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Diligence earlier this week offloaded approximately 8,700 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated US$64.5 million, some of which was seized off the coast of...
PARIS (AP) — A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in an alleged scheme to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya. The...
Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 12:10 AM
CAIRO (AP): An aid worker and a local group in Sudan said a drone strike by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 15 people at a bustling market in the besieged city of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. The strike on...
Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 12:10 AM
SAN JUAN (AP): Federal immigration agents have arrested Dimitri Vorbe, one of Haiti’s most powerful businessmen and the latest elite figure from the troubled Caribbean country to be detained on US soil. Vorbe was in custody of US Immigration and...
Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 12:06 AM
WELLINGTON (AP): A jury in New Zealand on Tuesday found a woman guilty of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for years before they were discovered. The verdict meant the jury at the High Court in Auckland rejected a...
Published:Wednesday | September 24, 2025 | 1:33 PM
DALLAS (AP) — A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing two detainees and wounding another before taking his own life, authorities said. The exact...
Published:Wednesday | September 24, 2025 | 10:33 AM
DALLAS (AP) — Three people, including detainees, have been shot at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas and the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, federal authorities said. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons...
Published:Wednesday | September 24, 2025 | 9:29 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC -Trinidad and Tobago is observing the 49th anniversary of Republicanism with President Christine Kangaloo noting that there were persons who had questioned whether the country was ready for that stage of its political...
Published:Wednesday | September 24, 2025 | 8:58 AM
SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Typhoon Ragasa, one of the strongest storms to hit Asia in years, whipped waves taller than lampposts onto Hong Kong promenades and turned seas rough on the southern Chinese coast on Wednesday after leaving deadly...
Published:Wednesday | September 24, 2025 | 12:09 AM
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers have reiterated their support for Haiti as the regional grouping received an updated report on the efforts being made to transition of the Kenya-led Multinational Security...
