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...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused Tuesday of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store...
DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) — Human rights activists are calling on the Dominican Republic's government for a temporary reprieve in deportations as neighbouring Haiti's crisis spirals and people attempt to flee over the...
NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly's lawyer told an appeals court Monday that all kinds of legitimate organisations — even college fraternities — could be deemed racketeering organisations under a law used to convict the R&B...
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and...
WASHINGTON (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington to discuss with Biden administration officials a prospective Rafah operation as each side is looking to make “clear to the...
ERREKUNDA (AP): Lawmakers in Gambia on Monday rejected, for now, an attempt to repeal a ban on female genital cutting, which would make the West African nation the first country anywhere to make that reversal. Activists in the largely Muslim...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds has questioned whether residents of an east Port of Spain area will “go back to life and business as normal” following the killing of five people, including a senior police officer,...
WASHINGTON (CMC): Republican lawmakers on Friday said the Biden administration “owes Congress a lot more details in a more timely manner before it gets more funding” for Haiti, even as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday warned that the...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP): The UN food agency said on Monday that “famine is imminent” in northern Gaza, where 70 per cent of the remaining population is experiencing catastrophic hunger, and that a further escalation of the war could push around half...
LONDON (AP): The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. A bill aimed at overcoming a UK Supreme Court block on the deportation flights returns to the House of...
MEXICO CITY (AP): A state police officer and her two bodyguards were killed in a highway attack in Mexico’s violent western state of Michoacan, security officials said on Monday. Michoacan’s state security agency said on X, formerly Twitter, that...
ABUJA, (AP): Armed gangs attacked two villages in Nigeria’s northwest over the weekend and seized at least 100 people from their homes, residents and a state official told The Associated Press on Monday in the latest mass abduction in the region....
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Gangs attacked two upscale neighbourhoods in Haiti’s capital early Monday in a rampage that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas. Gunmen looted homes in the communities of Laboule and Thomassin before sunrise...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing programme after lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles severely hampered the legal market and allowed black-market sellers to flourish, Governor Kathy Hochul...
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan is closing all schools starting Monday in preparation for an extreme heat wave that is expected to last two weeks. The health and education ministries advised parents to keep all children indoors...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC) The United Nations children’s agency said one of its containers carrying essential supplies for the survival of newborn babies and their mothers was looted by gangs at Haiti’s main port in the capital on Saturday. UNICEF...
GEORGETOWN (CMC) Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh says the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will soon acquire two new aircraft from India with a US$23.27 million loan from India’s Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank). The agreement was signed on...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC) The Trinidad and Tobago government has introduced new legislation that will reduce the rate of residential property tax by as much as 33 per cent, according to Finance Minister Colm Imbert. Imbert told legislators on Friday...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill campus has stoutly defended its law programme after Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham questioned the quality of the programme and the lawyers it was producing . In...
DEARBORN, Michigan (AP): While Muslim students remain a rarity in many US school districts, they are a major presence in some communities, prompting public schools to be more attentive to their needs during the holy month of Ramadan, when dawn-to-...
MEXICO CITY (AP): It’s her choice – but one on which the hopes of millions of Venezuelans fighting to restore their democracy depends. Barred from running for office, opposition leader María Corina Machado is facing pressure from foreign leaders...
BENGALURU (AP): Bhavani Mani Muthuvel and her family of nine have around five 20-litre (five-gallon) buckets worth of water for the week for cooking, cleaning and household chores. “From taking showers to using toilets and washing clothes, we...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) A crowd of about 100 people tried to shove through a metal gate in Haiti’s capital as a guard with a baton pushed them back, threatening to hit them. Undeterred, children and adults alike, some of them carrying babies,...
