BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania's capital on Friday ruled that a trial can start in the case of influencer Andrew Tate, who is charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The...
PORT AU PRINCE, (CMC): A new provisional government was sworn in on Thursday in this French-speaking CARICOM member state, nearly two months after a criminal insurrection plunged the capital into chaos. The nine-person “transitional council” was...
DAKAR (AP): Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Thursday. The mass killings took...
ISTANBUL (AP): A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an...
JERUSALEM (AP): A rapper in Iran who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and criticising the Islamic Republic has been sentenced to death, his lawyer and rights activists said Thursday. Confusion still surrounds the...
ABUJA (AP): More than 100 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria near the capital city of Abuja after overnight heavy rains destroyed parts of the facility, a prison official said Thursday, as security agencies searched for the fleeing...
NAIROBI (AP): Flooding in Tanzania caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others, the prime minister said Thursday. That is more than double the number of deaths reported two weeks ago as the amount of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Ariel Henry resigned Thursday as prime minister of Haiti, leaving the way clear for a new government to be formed in the Caribbean country, which has been wracked by gang violence that killed or injured more than 2,500 people...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Congo 's government is questioning Apple about the tech company's knowledge of “blood minerals” from a conflict zone in the African country that could be smuggled into its...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — More than 100 inmates escaped from an old and decrepit prison near Nigeria's capital after overnight heavy rains destroyed parts of the facility, a prison official said Thursday as security agencies searched for the...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein 's 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious”...
The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church has suspended a priest who participated in services for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Dmitry Safronov took part in Navalny’s funeral as well as presiding at the commemoration on March 26,...
COLOMBO (AP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his country has proven the West doesn’t have a monopoly on technology while inaugurating a hydropower and irrigation project in Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Raisi is the first Iranian leader to visit...
SHANGHAI (AP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken begun a critical trip to China armed with a strengthened diplomatic hand following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel...
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....
