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Published:Tuesday | March 26, 2024 | 2:42 PM

LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can't be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless American authorities guarantee he won't get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder...

Published:Tuesday | March 26, 2024 | 12:10 AM

CARACAS (AP): It’s a tale of two dramatically different political campaigns. On Monday, throngs of supporters of President Nicolás Maduro rallied at a giant stage draped in the red, yellow and blue colours of Venezuela’s flag outside the electoral...

Published:Tuesday | March 26, 2024 | 12:09 AM

NEW YORK (CM): Two New York City legislators have called on the United States to increase its intervention and support for Haiti, where criminal gangs are seeking to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry. New York City Council...

Published:Tuesday | March 26, 2024 | 12:06 AM

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP): The southern African nation of Malawi has declared a state of disaster over drought in 23 of its 28 districts, and the president says it urgently needs more than US$200 million in humanitarian assistance, less than a...

Published:Tuesday | March 26, 2024 | 12:06 AM

LONDON (AP): Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary pleaded not guilty Monday in a London courtroom to two terrorism-related charges. Choudary, 57, pleaded not guilty to membership in a banned organisation, the radical Muslim group al-Muhajiroun,...

Published:Tuesday | March 26, 2024 | 12:06 AM

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP): South African prosecutors said Monday they intend to charge the Parliament Speaker with corruption, alleging that she took US$135,000 and a wig in bribes over a three-year period while she was defence minister. Speaker...

Published:Tuesday | March 26, 2024 | 12:06 AM

KADUNA, Nigeria (AP): More than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren rescued after more than two weeks in captivity arrived Monday in their home state in northwestern Nigeria ahead of their anticipated reunions with families, following the latest in a...

Published:Tuesday | March 26, 2024 | 12:06 AM

TALLINN, Estonia (AP): The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theatre have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics...

Published:Monday | March 25, 2024 | 4:57 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Two properties belonging to rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs' in Los Angeles and Miami were searched Monday by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as part of an ongoing sex...

Published:Monday | March 25, 2024 | 2:18 PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled a high-level delegation's planned visit to Washington after the US decided not to use its veto power on Monday's UN Security Council resolution for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza....

Published:Monday | March 25, 2024 | 9:30 AM

Boeing CEO David Calhoun will step down from the embattled plane maker at the end of the year as part of a broader management shakeup after a series of mishaps at one of America's most storied manufacturers. Stan Deal, president and CEO of...

Published:Monday | March 25, 2024 | 12:06 AM

MOSCOW (AP): Family and friends of those still missing after an attack that killed over 130 people at a suburban Moscow concert hall waited for news of their loved ones as Russia observed a day of national mourning on Sunday. Events at cultural...

Published:Sunday | March 24, 2024 | 6:31 PM

MOSCOW (AP) — Three of the four suspects charged with carrying out the concert hall attack in Moscow that killed more than 130 people admitted guilt for the incident in a Russian court Sunday. Moscow's Basmanny District Court formally...

Published:Sunday | March 24, 2024 | 6:22 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Heavy rains in Brazil this weekend have killed at least 23 people between the southeastern states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo. Espirito Santos' state government said on Sunday that 15 people died and almost...

Published:Sunday | March 24, 2024 | 1:25 PM

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...

Published:Sunday | March 24, 2024 | 11:30 AM

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....

Published:Sunday | March 24, 2024 | 10:14 AM

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...

Published:Saturday | March 23, 2024 | 5:43 PM

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...

Published:Saturday | March 23, 2024 | 3:35 PM

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...

Published:Saturday | March 23, 2024 | 1:11 PM

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...

Published:Friday | March 22, 2024 | 4:11 PM

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...

Published:Friday | March 22, 2024 | 1:26 PM

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...

Published:Friday | March 22, 2024 | 9:46 AM

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...

Published:Friday | March 22, 2024 | 9:26 AM

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 ...

Published:Friday | March 22, 2024 | 12:10 AM

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....

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