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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment. Two of the officers suspected of the...
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka experienced an islandwide power outage for several hours Saturday after a system failure with one of the main transmission lines, the country's power and energy ministry said. The power outage began...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some Missouri lawmakers are renewing a call for the state to take an anti-abortion step that goes further than prominent anti-abortion groups want to go and that has not gained much traction in any state so far: a...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe is holding special elections Saturday for nine seats in Parliament after opposition lawmakers were removed from their positions and disqualified from running again. The opposition called it an...
PARIS (AP) — A French juvenile court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their roles in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist, an attack that shocked the country and shone a light on the real-world dangers of...
LONDON (AP): Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was under pressure Friday to explain why Britain has paid Rwanda £240 million (US$300 million) as part of a blocked asylum plan, without a single person being sent to the East African country. The total is...
NASSAU (CMC): The head of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF), Commodore Raymond King, says recruitment efforts are being hampered by plans to send officers to Haiti as recruits are opting to join other law enforcement agencies instead. “What...
SAN JUAN (AP): The authorities in Dominica are investigating the killings of a wealthy Canadian businessman and his partner who owned an eco-resort in the eastern Caribbean island. Two men have been arrested and charged in the slaying of Daniel...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Friday called on main opposition United National Congress (UNC) to “shut up” and allow for the ongoing border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo region to be solved by...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States vetoed a United Nations resolution Friday backed by almost all other Security Council members and dozens of other nations demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. Supporters called it a...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former...
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was under pressure Friday to explain why Britain has paid Rwanda 240 million pounds ($300 million) as part of a blocked asylum plan, without a single person being sent to the East African country...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting pharmaceutical companies on notice, warning them that if the price of certain drugs is too high, the government might cancel their patent protection and allow rivals to make...
MIAMI (AP): Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raúl Castro who worked with the CIA against their communist government, has died in Miami at 90. Florida had been her home since shortly after fleeing the island nearly 60 years ago....
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Thursday granted a pregnant woman permission to obtain an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to the state's ban that took effect after Roe v Wade was overturned last year. It was unclear how...
LAS VEGAS (AP) —The gunman in Wednesday's shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) was a professor who had unsuccessfully sought a job at the school, a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation told...
