LOS ANGELES (AP) — Duelling groups of protesters clashed overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, shoving, kicking and beating each other with sticks after pro-Israel demonstrators tried to pull down barricades surrounding a...
BEIJING (AP) — A section of a highway collapsed early Wednesday in southern China, sending cars tumbling and leaving at least 24 people dead, according to state media. Eighteen cars fell down a slope after a 17.9-meter long section of the...
NEW YORK (AP): Donald Trump was held in contempt of court on Tuesday and fined US$9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose former Sports Minister Fritz Bélizaire as the Caribbean country’s prime minister on Tuesday as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that hundreds of thousands of pieces of ammunition have gone missing from two military bases in the South American country. In a brief statement, Petro said that an...
SHANGHAI (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility — a sign of Beijing's continuing pressure on...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an FBI report released Tuesday that shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics to trick...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects...
LONDON (AP) — A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a east London suburb early Tuesday, killing a 13-year-old boy and injuring four others, authorities said. A 36-year-old man was arrested in a...
NAIROBI (AP): Flash floods and a landslide swept through houses and cut off a major road in Kenya, killing at least 45 people and leaving dozens missing on Monday, the interior ministry said. Police official Stephen Kirui initially told The...
NASSAU (CMC): A magistrate’s court will on May 8 decide the fate of a man who allegedly threatened to kill Prime Minister Philip Davis last year. The prosecution said that Isaac Roberts called the Central Police Station on February 8, 2023, warning...
LONDON (AP): British and Irish officials met on Monday as tensions rise over the movement of asylum seekers from the UK to neighbouring Ireland and Ireland’s proposal to send them back. Irish Premier Simon Harris said on Sunday that Ireland will...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands pro-Beijing Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare on Monday withdrew from the contest to remain head of the strategically important South Pacific island nation’s government following general elections two...
NEW YORK (AP): Colleges around the US implored pro-Palestinian student protesters to clear out tent encampments with rising levels of urgency on Monday, including an ultimatum from Columbia University for students to sign a form and leave the...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union announced on Monday that it is tightening visa requirements for people from Ethiopia, accusing the government there of a failure to cooperate in taking back citizens found to be living illegally in the 27-...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Elon Musk over a settlement with securities regulators that requires him to get approval in advance of some tweets that relate to Tesla, the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A dam collapsed in western Kenya early Monday, killing at least 40 people after a wall of water swept through houses and cut off a major road, police said. The Old Kijabe Dam, located in the Mai Mahiu area of the Great...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Guyana has launched a campaign to distribute long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) in the Amerindian village of Aishalton, Deep South Rupununi, Region Nine, as part of a national strategy to eliminate malaria in the...
UNITED STATES (CMC): Haitian Rapper Wyclef Jean is hopeful that the installation of a transitional Presidential Council would help to “pivot the nation away from past destructive practices”. In a post on his social media account X (formerly Twitter...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Grenada’s Opposition Leader Dr Keith Mitchell has accused the government of purposefully debating and passing the gun amnesty resolution while he was unavoidably absent. Speaking to the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) on the...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC:) Trinidad and Tobago will host a high-level conference on Tuesday, aimed at supporting decision and policy makers, civil society and innovators to define what a Small Island Digital State (SIDS 2.0) requires, and identify the...
VENICE (AP): Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly gem of a city. But, even for a place...
BAGHDAD (AP): Human rights groups and diplomats criticised a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison sentences on gay and transgender people. United States (US) State Department...
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours. But, the next evening, the college...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital yesterday that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the nation’s multicolored flag. But any...
