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Blanco Brown performs during CMA Fest, Saturday, June 8, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee..
December 9, 2025

AI country hit built on Blanco Brown’s sound sparks questions

LOS ANGELES (AP): When an AI-generated country song called Walk My Walk hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artiste named Breaking…
Jeffrey Bostic
December 9, 2025

Jeffrey Bostic installed as second president of Barbados

BRIDGETOWN (CMC) The second president of Barbados, Jeffrey Bostic, was sworn in early Sunday during the 59th anniversary of Independence and the fourth as a republic. A former minister of health and…
December 9, 2025

Health officials monitor H5 avian flu

GEORGE TOWN (CMC): Officials from the agriculture and health ministries have confirmed that H5 avian flu has been detected in animals on a farm here, and immediate coordinated action is being taken…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (left) listens to Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López during a government-organised civic-military march in Caracas.
December 9, 2025

Maduro may seem desperate, but his loyalty vs punishment strategy is hard to crack

CARACAS (AP): English phrases once bothered Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro so much that he urged his State of the Union address audience to phase out words like skatepark and fashion. But, as…
Actress and playwright Debra Ehrhardt.
December 9, 2025

New date for Debra Ehrhardt’s ‘Look What Fell Out De Mango Tree’

Two performances of Look What Fell Out De Mango Tree, actress and playwright Debra Ehrhardt’s newest play, have been rescheduled for January 17 and 18, 2026 at the University of Technology on Old Hope…
An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis oil and petroleum complex on the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Russia.
December 9, 2025

Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil tankers off Black Sea coast condemned

ISTANBUL (AP): The Turkish government has condemned Ukrainian drone attacks on two Russian “shadow fleet” oil tankers in the Black Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said the attacks on the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
December 9, 2025

Netanyahu submits request for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial

TEL AVIV (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges – seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly…
People offer flowers and pray for the victims near the site of a deadly fire at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong’s New Territories.
December 9, 2025

Death toll in apartment complex blaze rises to 146 as the city mourns

HONG KONG (AP): The death toll in Hong Kong’s apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings. A steady stream of people placed…
Rescuers carry the body of a flood victim in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
December 9, 2025

Residents hunt for food and water after deadly floods

MEDANC (AP): Some residents of the flood-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra have resorted to stealing food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday, while Sri Lankan officials said deaths from…