RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's government extended exemptions to tourist visa requirements for citizens of the United States, Australia and Canada until April 2025, extending a program aimed at boosting tourism that had been scheduled to...
US President Joe Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's approach to the war against Hamas is mistaken. Biden's remarks in a television interview that aired late Tuesday deepen an already growing rift between the two staunch...
CAIRO (AP): Egyptian officials said Tuesday that mediators have presented a new ceasefire proposal to Hamas and Israel that would include a six-week pause in fighting and a swap of 40 Hamas-held hostages for at least 700 Palestinians imprisoned by...
NAIROBI (AP): A public hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi has laid off 100 doctors who are taking part in a nationwide strike that has been ongoing for almost a month, its management said Tuesday. The Kenyatta University Referral Hospital said...
PONTIAC, Michigan (AP): A judge sentenced the parents of a Michigan school shooter to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for failing to take steps that could have prevented a “runaway train” – the killing of four students in 2021. Jennifer and...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been charged with felony child neglect more than a year after a six-year-old boy brought a gun to class and shot his first-grade teacher. A...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A public hospital in Kenya's capital, Nairobi has laid off 100 doctors who are taking part in a nationwide strike that has been ongoing for almost a month, its management said Tuesday. The Kenyatta...
PONTIAC, Michigan (AP) — The parents of a Michigan school shooter were each sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for failing to take steps that could have prevented the killing of four students in 2021. Jennifer and James...
QUITO(AP): The global condemnation of Ecuador’s government for its decision to break into the Mexican Embassy snowballed Sunday with more presidents and other leaders expressing disapproval, shock and dismay. The criticism came as Mexico’s...
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines has denied permission for two airlines operating chartered flights from Nigeria, Dubai, and Morocco to land in the country. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, who is also Minister of...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, (CMC): Bishop Clive Harvey has announced the “immediate and indefinite” suspension of a Roman Catholic priest after he failed to stop making contentious remarks regarding the ongoing war in the Gaza between Israel and the...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP): A Malaysian shoe company has apologised and stopped selling some of its footwear after some Muslims said the logo resembled the Arabic writing for the word God. Vern’s Holdings said the logo stamped on the soles of some high-...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (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 undetermined number of...
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...
