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Published:Saturday | May 4, 2024 | 10:40 AM

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said. The accident occurred around 10:40...

Published:Saturday | May 4, 2024 | 12:06 AM

LONDON (AP): Britain’s governing Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in local election results Friday, further cementing expectations that the Labour Party will return to power after 14 years in a UK general election that will take place in...

Published:Saturday | May 4, 2024 | 12:06 AM

PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): At least 12 people have been reported dead following the torrential rains that drenched Cap-Haitien for several days causing widespread floods and landslides, the authorities have confirmed. The Municipal Commission of Cap-...

Published:Friday | May 3, 2024 | 9:21 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Google's preeminence as an Internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up by more than $20 billion spent each year by the tech giant to lock out competition, United States Justice Department lawyers argued at...

Published:Friday | May 3, 2024 | 8:09 PM

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has authorised the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first state to put a person to death with the previously untested method. The Alabama Supreme Court on Thursday...

Published:Friday | May 3, 2024 | 1:34 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the US as children are expected to enrol in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance next year under a directive the Biden administration released Friday. The move took...

Published:Friday | May 3, 2024 | 8:23 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto has postponed next week's planned reopening of schools until further notice, as heavy rains and floods that have killed more than 200 people continue. The president in his state of the...

Published:Friday | May 3, 2024 | 12:10 AM

OTTAWA (CMC): The prime ministers of Canada and Barbados have held talks on the ongoing political, security and humanitarian crisis in Haiti. During a meeting on Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Barbadian counterpart, Mia...

Published:Friday | May 3, 2024 | 12:09 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP): Human Rights Watch accused Kenyan authorities on Thursday of not responding adequately to ongoing floods that have killed more than 170 people since the start of the rainy season. The New York-based rights group said the...

Published:Friday | May 3, 2024 | 12:09 AM

LONDON (AP): A man accused of brandishing a sword in a rampage in London that killed a teenage boy, severely injured two police officers and wounded two men appeared in court Thursday to face charges of murder and attempted murder. Marcus Arduini...

Published:Friday | May 3, 2024 | 12:09 AM

BEIRUT (AP): Hamas said Thursday that it was sending a delegation to Egypt for further ceasefire talks, in a new sign of progress in attempts by international mediators to hammer out an agreement between Israel and the militant group to end the war...

Published:Friday | May 3, 2024 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain their economic circumstances and contrasted the four...

Published:Friday | May 3, 2024 | 12:06 AM

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines has joined 10 other Caribbean countries in achieving UNAIDS certification of the dual elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV and syphilis. In addition, the island...

Published:Thursday | May 2, 2024 | 11:30 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Human Rights Watch accused Kenyan authorities on Thursday of not responding adequately to ongoing floods that have killed more than 170 people since the start of the rainy season. The New York-based rights...

Published:Thursday | May 2, 2024 | 9:04 AM

BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area. One side of the four-lane highway in the city of...

Published:Thursday | May 2, 2024 | 12:08 AM

KYIV (AP): A 98-year-old woman in Ukraine who escaped Russian-occupied territory by walking almost 10 kilometres (six miles) alone, wearing a pair of slippers and supported by a cane, has been reunited with her family days after they were separated...

Published:Thursday | May 2, 2024 | 12:08 AM

CHARLOTTE, NC (AP): United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s long-standing ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practising homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers....

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2024 | 9:33 PM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ecuador on Wednesday defended its storming of the Mexican Embassy in Quito last month, telling judges at the United Nations' top court that it acted to take in “a common criminal”...

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2024 | 7:15 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of eight United States newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or...

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2024 | 2:49 PM

A subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson is now proposing to pay approximately $6.48 billion over 25 years as part of a settlement in the United States to cover allegations that its baby powder containing talc caused ovarian cancer. The lawsuits filed...

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2024 | 12:33 PM

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...

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2024 | 8:27 AM

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...

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2024 | 12:09 AM

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...

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2024 | 12:09 AM

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...

Published:Tuesday | April 30, 2024 | 9:54 PM

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...

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