KISSIMMEE, Florida (AP) — The longtime boyfriend of a central Florida mother whose teenage daughter was reported missing in February was charged Wednesday with the 13-year-old girl's murder, officials said. Stephan Sterns was charged...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations called Tuesday for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation” of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops. Credible...
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's government on Tuesday rolled out new incentives to reduce electricity consumption in the South American nation, which has been hit by a severe drought that has diminished the capacity of...
The Biden administration issued final rules Wednesday to require airlines to automatically issue cash refunds for things like delayed flights and to better disclose fees for baggage or cancelling a reservation. The...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her. They stuck electrodes to her chest and...
NEW DELHI (AP): India’s main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators” – some of his most incendiary rhetoric to date about the minority faith in a campaign rally days after...
PARIS (AP): French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine river on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ‘’social cleansing’’ ahead of the Summer Olympics. Before dawn...
BERLIN (AP): A man who works for a prominent German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, authorities said on Tuesday. The detention came less than 24 hours after three people were...
LONDON (AP): Britain’s plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda were swiftly condemned by international humanitarian organisations after Parliament approved legislation allowing the deportation flights to begin later this year. Both the UN...
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman has been convicted of killing and dismembering her landlord and putting some of the victim's remains inside a freezer in the boarding house where she lived. A Cook County jury convicted Sandra Kolalou, 37,...
LAVAL, Quebec (AP) — A family in Quebec is searching for answers after discovering that their father's remains didn't make it to Canada from Cuba, where he died while on vacation, and instead received the remains of another man....
LONDON (AP) — Britain's plans to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda were swiftly condemned by international humanitarian organisations after Parliament approved legislation allowing the deportation flights to begin later this...
HAMILTON (CMC): A member of the main opposition One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) is calling on the government to hold a referendum ahead of Bermuda’s move towards gaining fully membership of CARICOM. “Full membership of CARICOM should be decided by a...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Barbados will be officially recognising Palestine as a state, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds has disclosed. At a media launch to highlight activities for the 166th Regular Session of the Inter-...
ROSEAU (CMC): High Court Judge Justice Kimberly Cenac-Phulgence, Monday ruled that sections of the Sexual Offenses Act contravene the Dominica Constitution as she ruled in favour of a “gay man” who challenged legislations that criminalise buggery...
MELBOURNE (AP): An Australian judge on Monday ruled that social media platform X must block every user in the world from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church, extending the prohibition beyond users in Australia. X Corp., the...
MELBOURNE (AP): Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Prime Minister James Marape accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that an uncle of the US president had been eaten by “cannibals” there during World War II. Biden’s...
CAPE TOWN (AP): South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) lost a second court case against a new rival party fronted by former President Jacob Zuma on Monday. A judge in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in the eastern city of Durban...
LONDON (AP): UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged Monday that the first deportation flights carrying migrants who enter the country illegally to Rwanda would leave in 10-12 weeks, as he vowed to end the parliamentary deadlock over a key policy...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The head of Israeli military intelligence resigned on Monday because of Hamas' October 7 attack, becoming the first senior figure to step down over his role in the stunning failure to anticipate or...
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations labour organisation warned Monday that over 70% of the world's workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat during their careers, citing increased concern about exposure to sunlight. It also warned...
New Delhi (AP) The world’s largest democratic election could also be one of its most consequential. With a population of over 1.4 billion people and close to 970 million voters, India’s general election pits Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an...
TOKYO (AP): Two Japanese navy helicopters carrying eight crew members crashed in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo during night-time training in a possible collision, leaving one dead while rescuers on Sunday searched for seven others missing,...
JERUSALEM (AP): Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgement that despite launching a massive assault, few projectiles...
KYIV (AP) Ukrainian and Western leaders welcomed a desperately needed aid package passed by the US House of Representatives, as the Kremlin warned the passage of the bill would “further ruin” Ukraine and cause more deaths. The House swiftly...
