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A United Parcel Service truck makes deliveries in Pittsburgh on June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, file)
05 Nov, 2025 0

Shipping delays expected after UPS cargo plane crash

NEW YORK (AP) — The UPS cargo plane crash on Tuesday at the company's global aviation hub in Kentucky, which killed at least 12, will temporarily disrupt the supply chain and result in some…
A United Airlines flight arrives at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Monday, November 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
05 Nov, 2025 0

FAA reducing air traffic by 10 per cent across 40 'high-volume' markets during government shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it was taking the extraordinary step of reducing air traffic by 10 per cent across 40 "high-volume" markets…
Zohran Mamdani tries to talk to pedestrians while surrounded by reporters in New York, Monday, October 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
04 Nov, 2025 0

Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected New York City mayor

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has become the city's first Muslim mayor and its youngest in generations. The 34-year-old state lawmaker harnessed enthusiasm and social media savvy to…
People gather, among them students, to walk on the street towards the northern city of Novi Sad, for a huge rally on November, marking the first anniversary of a train station disaster that killed 16 people, in Belgrade, Serbia.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Anniversary of deadly train station disaster marked with large rally

NOVI SAD (AP): Tens of thousands of people from all over Serbia commemorated the victims of a railway station disaster a year ago in the northern city of Novi Sad in a gathering on Saturday seen as a…
Forensic investigators on the platform by a train at Huntingdon station after a mass stabbing on a London-bound train in Cambridgeshire, England.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Police rule out terrorism in stabbing attack on train after two men are arrested

LONDON (AP): British police dismissed speculation on Sunday that a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train the previous evening was terrorism-related, but said two people who were wounded remain…
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (left) listens to his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein during a news conference after a meeting at the foreign ministry in Baghdad, Iraq.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Foreign minister calls for disarmament of Kurdish fighters

BAGHDAD (AP): Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on Sunday called on Kurdish separatist fighters, who have withdrawn to the country’s north after waging a decades-long insurgency in Turkey, to…
A woman observes All Saints’ Day, a time for reflecting on those who have died, in Kroczewo near Warsaw, Poland.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Catholics honour All Saints’ Day with family gatherings,cemetery visits

WARSAW (AP): Poles met up with families and visited their beloved dead on All Saints’ Day, which was celebrated Saturday across the Catholic world. All Saints’ Day, annually celebrated on November 1,…
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31 Oct, 2025 0

CARICOM countries vote in favour of resolution to end US trade embargo against Cuba

UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations General Assembly Wednesday has, for the 33rd consecutive year, adopted a resolution calling for an end to the decades-long United States embargo against Cuba.…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk
31 Oct, 2025 0

US strikes on alleged drug boats ‘unacceptable’

GENEVA (AP): The UN human rights chief said Friday that US military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are…