RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's federal police arrested on Sunday the men suspected of ordering the killing of a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman in 2018, a long-awaited step after years of society clamouring for justice. The brutal...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis decided at the last minute to skip his homily during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, avoiding a strenuous speech at the start of a busy Holy Week that will test his increasingly frail health....
KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 137 of nearly 300 Nigerian children abducted more than two weeks ago from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna were released on Sunday, the West African nation's military said. An...
RAFAH CROSSING, Egypt (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stood near a long line of waiting trucks Saturday and declared it was time to “truly flood Gaza with lifesaving aid,” calling the starvation...
LONDON (AP) — A British IT worker who befriended and worked for an older couple, poisoned them with fentanyl, and monitored their death with his cell phone was sentenced Friday to a minimum 37 years in prison. The sentencing of Luke D'Wit...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — For more than a century, it has been a crime to cheat on your spouse in New York. But adultery may soon be legal in the Empire State thanks to a bill working its way through the New York Legislature, which would finally...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of students in northern Nigeria rushed to get food donated to their school by the government to help ease hardship, resulting in a stampede that left two dead and 23 others injured, school authorities said...
LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, said Friday she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. Her condition was disclosed in a video message recorded on Wednesday and broadcast Friday, coming after weeks of speculation on social...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China on Friday vetoed a United Stated-sponsored United Nations resolution calling for “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to protect civilians and...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of people....
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday that a Texas law giving state authorities the power to arrest and deport migrants who have entered the country illegally is unconstitutional. Mayorkas spoke during...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada's immigration minister said Thursday the country will set targets to reduce the number of new temporary residents in the country. Marc Miller said it's the first time Canada will do this. The federal government plans...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan doctors stopped providing emergency services at public hospitals on Thursday, as they escalated a national strike that entered its second week. Thousands of doctors have stayed away from hospitals since last...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors and stifles innovation. The...
OHANNESBURG (AP) — For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country's largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of...
AP: Fighting around Gaza’s largest hospital raged on for a third day Wednesday as the Israeli military said it had arrested hundreds of Palestinians during its raid at Shifa Hospital. Gaza officials said thousands of Palestinian patients, medical...
LONDON (AP): Vaughan Gething was elected first minister of Wales on Wednesday, becoming the first black leader of a government in the UK. Gething was elected government leader by members of the Welsh parliament in Cardiff, four days after winning...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York state lawyers urged an appellate court Wednesday not to buy former President Donald Trump's claims that it's impossible to post a bond fully covering a US$454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals. The...
CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio mother whose 16-month-old daughter died after being left home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. Kristel...
CAPE TOWN, (AP): South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by a former president to court, underscoring a fractious buildup to what could be the country’s...
SAO PAULO (AP): Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused on Tuesday of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store....
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Tuesday urged families to crack down on relatives engaged in criminal activities as Trinidad and Tobago law enforcement authorities seek to stem the rise in murders here. Speaking at the sod-...
BOGOTA, (AP): Colombia’s largest criminal group said Tuesday it has accepted President Gustavo Petro’s offer to start peace negotiations, but the next steps in any talks were not immediately clear. The Gaitanista Self Defense Forces of Colombia –...
GEORGETOWN (AP): Caribbean leaders said Tuesday that all groups and political parties, except one, have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti, which remains engulfed in...
