LONDON (AP): During her 49 days as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, Liz Truss sparked mayhem on the financial markets and turmoil within her Conservative Party. Now she is speaking up, and her message is: It wasn’t me. In interviews and a...
LONDON (AP): A Muslim student who wanted to pray during lunchtime lost a court fight on Tuesday against a strict London school that had banned prayer on campus. A High Court judge said the female student had accepted when she enrolled in the school...
ST LOUIS (AP): A St Louis judge on Monday awarded nearly $23.5 million to a former police officer who was beaten by colleagues while working undercover during a protest. Luther Hall was badly injured in the 2017 attack during one of several...
NEW YORK (AP) — Four people were shot, one fatally, on a street corner in the Bronx Tuesday evening by shooters riding on scooters, police said. About 10 shots were fired after two scooters pulled up to the intersection after 6 p.m...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador on Tuesday began to ration electricity in the country's main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants that produce about...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The mayor of Colombia's capital on Monday announced new measures to reduce water consumption in the city of eight million people, where a drought associated with the El Niño weather pattern has already...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Floods have killed 58 people in Tanzania during the last two weeks, the government said, as heavy rains continue in the East African country. The coastal region was hit hardest, with 126,831 people affected, according to...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The North-West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) is being sued for medical negligence by the parents of seven babies who died earlier this month as a result of bacterial outbreaks at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH...
CHICAGO (AP): Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked a freeway leading to three Chicago O’Hare International Airport terminals on Monday morning, temporarily stopping vehicular traffic into one of the nation’s busiest airports and causing headaches...
World leaders are urging Israel not to retaliate after Iran launched an attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. British Foreign Secretary David Cameron told the BBC on Monday that the UK does not support a...
ISLAMABAD (AP): Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 36 people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said on Monday, as authorities in the country’s southwest declared a state of emergency. Most of the deaths...
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (AP) — Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife were charged Monday with abusing and assaulting their teenage daughter on multiple occasions, including hitting her in the head with a broom and knocking her unconscious....
The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation into the deadly collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge that is focused on the circumstances leading up to it and whether all federal laws were followed, according to a person familiar...
WASHINGTON (CMC) A former United States ambassador who admitted to secretly acting for decades as an agent of the government of Cuba has been jailed for 15 years. Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, a former US Department of State employee who served on...
MEXICO CITY (AP) Giovanny Tovar left Venezuela five years ago in search of a job after his country came undone under the watch of President Nicolás Maduro. He now sells empanadas and tequeños in the streets of Peru's capital, where he pushes...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC) The Barbados government on Saturday signed a US$25 million loan from the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank) to redevelop Kensington Oval, with chairman of the Kensington Oval Management Inc (KOMI) outlining plans to...
MUKONO (AP): In a forested area outside Uganda’s capital, a few dozen youth gather around a makeshift ring to watch two amateur wrestlers tangle in the mud. The training sessions, complete with an announcer and referee, imitate the pro...
NEW DELHI (AP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday vowed to boost social spending, develop infrastructure and make India into a global manufacturing hub as companies shift away from China, as he unveiled his Hindu nationalist party’s...
WARSAW (AP): Thousands of Polish opponents of abortion marched in Warsaw on Sunday to protest recent steps by the new government to liberalise the predominantly Catholic nation's strict laws and allow termination of pregnancy until the 12th...
TEL AVIV (AP): Israel on Sunday hailed its air defences in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran, saying the systems thwarted 99 per cent of the more than 300 drones and missiles launched towards its territory. Regional tensions were high...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Giovanny Tovar left Venezuela five years ago in search of a job after his country came undone under the watch of President Nicolás Maduro. He now sells empanadas and tequeños in the streets of Peru's...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday sided with a group of Peruvian villagers who have complained that companies linked to a powerful South American church group have tried to evict them from their land using lawsuits and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden convened the Group of Seven advanced democracies on Sunday to coordinate a rebuke to Iran for its unprecedented and largely unsuccessful aerial attack on Israel and to prevent a wider...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in Afghanistan has killed at least 33 people and injured 27 others in three days, a Taliban spokesman said Sunday. Abdullah Janan Saiq, the Taliban's spokesman for the State Ministry for...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles toward Israel late Saturday in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Middle East ever closer to a regionwide war. The attack marked the first time Iran had ever...
