PANAMA CITY (AP): The trial of 27 people charged in connection with the worldwide ‘Panama Papers’ money laundering started on Monday in a Panamanian criminal court. Those on trial include the owners of the Mossack Fonseca law firm that was at the...
MADRID (AP): Spain’s government said on Monday it plans to scrap so-called ‘golden visas’ that allow wealthy people from outside the European Union to obtain residency permits on investing more than half a million euros (dollars) in real estate....
DALLAS (AP): Millions across North America witnessed the moon block out the sun during a total solar eclipse Monday. The eclipse’s path of totality stretched from Mazatlán, Mexico, to Newfoundland, an area that crosses 15 US states and is home to...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice has included Elon Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news, and has opened a separate investigation into the United States business...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two Muslim women who were forced to remove their head coverings to be photographed after they were arrested. The class-action lawsuit was...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours. Two police officers were injured and an...
MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — A chilly, midday darkness fell across North America on Monday as a total solar eclipse began its race across the continent, thrilling those lucky enough to behold the spectacle through clear skies. Eclipse mania...
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors has been ordered to complete a year-long counselling programme but avoided jail time Monday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case that derailed the once-promising star's career. The...
MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — Millions of spectators along a narrow corridor stretching from Mexico to the US to Canada eagerly awaited Monday's celestial sensation — a total eclipse of the sun — even as forecasters called for clouds...
WAXAHACHIE (AP): The last time a total solar eclipse passed through this Texas town, horses and buggies filled the streets and cotton fetched nine cents a pound. Nearly 150 years later, one thing hasn’t changed: the threat of clouds blocking the...
GUNTUR (AP): There’s a pungent odour on Ratna Raju’s farm that he says is protecting his crops from the unpredictable and extreme weather that’s become more frequent with human-caused climate change. The smell comes from a concoction of cow urine...
KIGALI (AP): Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering the small East African country that continues to grapple with the horrific legacy of...
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC): The St Lucia government Wednesday said it has uncovered a fraudulent social media account impersonating Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre. In a statement, the Office of the Prime Minister said that the account, which is...
NEW YORK (CMC): New York Attorney General, Letitia James, says the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and a multistate coalition have won a US$366-million judgment against a bond services company for unfairly targeting Caribbean and other...
ROSEAU (CMC): Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Friday said that China has agreed to provide over EC$27 million (one EC dollar = US$0.37 cent) towards budget support to Dominica, as he described his official visit to Beijing last week as a major...
NEW YORK (AP): An earthquake centred between New York and Philadelphia shook skyscrapers and suburbs across the northeastern US for several seconds Friday morning, causing no major damage but startling millions of people in an area unaccustomed to...
LIMA (AP): Peruvian President Dina Boluarte was interrogated by prosecutors for more than three hours Friday as authorities investigate whether she illegally received hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, luxury watches and jewellery....
HUYE (AP): The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for – and often finding – human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence. The digging goes on, a scene that’s become all too...
WASHINGTON (AP): For the first time in nearly two years, US and Chinese defence officials met this week to discuss unsafe and aggressive ship and aircraft incidents between the two militaries in the Pacific region, restarting a dialogue that...
BOGOTÁ (AP): Colombia suffered a series of attacks Thursday night and Friday morning, marking the first major assault against its military since a mafia group born from the now-defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced it was...
SANTO DOMINGO (AP): A judge denied a request by Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco to suspend required monthly meetings with Dominican authorities investigating allegations he had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl, according to a...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe on Friday launched a new currency to replace its previous one that in recent months has been battered by depreciation, and in some instances rejection by the population. Authorities hope the new...
DALLAS (AP) — Federal officials are investigating a reported engine fire that forced a Southwest Airlines plane to cancel takeoff and return to the gate at the Lubbock, Texas, airport on Thursday. Southwest said Friday that pilots “...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Shelves have gone empty, as residents hunt in vain and resort to DIY alternatives. And surging resale prices are shocking even to Argentines accustomed to triple-digit inflation. The country's latest crisis...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte testified to prosecutors behind closed doors Friday as authorities investigate whether she illegally received hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, luxury watches and jewellery....
