JERUSALEM (AP): Hamas announced Monday it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a ceasefire to halt the seven-month-long war with Israel in Gaza, hours after Israel ordered about 100,000 Palestinians to begin evacuating from the southern...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Qantas Airways agreed to pay 120 million Australian dollars in compensation and a fine for selling tickets on thousands of cancelled flights, the airline and Australia's consumer watchdog said on...
A man who tried to shoot a pastor during a service at a Pennsylvania church because “God told him to do it” was thwarted when his gun didn't fire and he was tackled by a congregant, authorities said. The chaos at the Jesus'...
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge presiding over Donald Trump's hush money trial fined him $1,000 on Monday and warned of jail time for future gag order violations while jurors heard detailed testimony for the first time about the...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas announced Monday it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but there was no immediate word from Israel, leaving it uncertain whether a deal had been sealed to bring a halt to the seven-month-long war in...
KIBBUTZ MEFLASIM (AP): When Hamas fighters invaded southern Israel on October 7, the militant group that rules the Gaza Strip perpetrated the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. So this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins...
Just a few months short of a quarter-century as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin on Tuesday will put his hand on a copy of the constitution and begin another six-year term as president, wielding extraordinary power. Since becoming acting president...
BERLIN (AP) — A teenager surrendered to police on Sunday over an attack on a candidate from the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz that fuelled concern about intimidation and violence in the run-up to next month's election for...
Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry's database. As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelenskyy and his predecessor, Petro...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Massive floods in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state killed at least 60 people and another 101 were reported missing, according to Sunday's toll from local authorities. At least 155 people were injured,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A driver died after a vehicle crashed into an outer perimeter gate of the White House complex, and the incident late Saturday was being investigated as a traffic crash, police said. President Joe Biden was spending the...
MIAMI (AP): Airport security officers in Miami found a slithering surprise last month – a bag of snakes hidden in a passenger’s pants. According to an X post by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), officers at the Miami International...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC: Commonwealth Secretary General, Patricia Scotland, on Friday underscored the importance of the Commonwealth to the continued future development of the international community. Delivering the inaugural Commonwealth Lecture...
HAVANA, Cuba, CMC: Several international carriers have announced plans to resume flights to Cubs, starting later this month. This was revealed by tourism marketing director Gihana Galindo during the 42nd International Tourism Fair, FITCuba 2024,...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan and India on Saturday decried remarks by United States President Joe Biden describing them as “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, which the president said during a campaign...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — A military court in eastern Congo on Friday sentenced eight soldiers to death for cowardice and other crimes linked to fleeing the battlefield, as the government struggles to contain violence and attacks in the mineral-rich...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
