CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP): Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find can help explain how solar...
Hanukkah – also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew – is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah – a multibranched...
London (AP): The UK’s former health secretary told a COVID-19 inquiry Thursday that the British government would have saved many lives if it had acted sooner and imposed a national lockdown weeks earlier than it did in March 2020. Matt Hancock, who...
Helsinki (AP): NATO member Finland on Wednesday closed its last remaining border crossing with Russia after the government decided to seal the entire border with its eastern neighbour amid rising political tensions. The Cabinet of Finnish Prime...
Dubai (AP): Pressure to phase out fossil fuels mounted Thursday on the oil company chief who took over fragile international climate negotiations that opened in Dubai amid concerns about what some say is contradictory dual roles. The climate talks...
LONDON (AP) — Saudi Arabia will extend a cut in the amount of oil it sends to the world after a series of previous reductions by members of the OPEC+ alliance of major producing countries failed to prop up prices. That's been a good thing...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Nations weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, and warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt, and heat...
New Delhi (AP): The rescue mission was expected to last only a few days. Instead, it took 17 days to reach 41 construction workers who were trapped when a landslide collapsed a mountain tunnel in northern India earlier this month. The excruciating...
Algiers (AP): Algeria’s National Council passed a new media law that officials hailed as a major victory for the country’s journalists as concerns about press freedoms have plagued President Abdelmajid Tebboune’s first term in office. The new law...
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, his consulting...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's government said Wednesday it reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million Canadian dollars annually to the country's news industry to comply with a new Canadian law requiring...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Tighter water restrictions for drought-stricken northeast Spain went into effect Wednesday when authorities in Catalonia said that Barcelona may need to have fresh water shipped in by boat in the coming...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy, which has proved surprisingly resilient this year, is expected to falter next year under the strain of wars, still-elevated inflation and continued high interest rates. The Paris-based Organization...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government on Wednesday proposed new laws that would place behind bars some of the 141 migrants who have been set free in the three weeks since the High Court ruled their indefinite...
Published:Wednesday | November 29, 2023 | 12:10 AM
UTTARKASHI (AP): All 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in northern India for more than two weeks were pulled out on Tuesday, bringing an end to a drawn-out rescue mission that had grabbed the country’s...
Published:Wednesday | November 29, 2023 | 12:09 AM
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 rattled parts of Barbados on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries. The Trinidad-based University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre reported...
Published:Wednesday | November 29, 2023 | 12:09 AM
WASHINGTON (AP): Hunter Biden offered on Tuesday to testify publicly before Congress, striking a defiant note in response to a subpoena from Republicans and setting up a potential high-stakes face-off, even as a separate special counsel probe...
Published:Wednesday | November 29, 2023 | 12:09 AM
ABUJA (AP): Hundreds of rebels were killed as they tried to seize a town in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, the state broadcaster reported, in one of the largest clashes in recent years in the West African nation under threat from fighters linked...
Published:Wednesday | November 29, 2023 | 12:08 AM
THE HAGUE (CMC): The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Tuesday said it would deliver, on Friday, its Order on Guyana’s request for ”the indication of provisional measures” aimed at preventing Venezuela from holding a referendum over the...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 metres (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75 — 14 of them critically, the mine operator said Tuesday...
ATLANTA (AP) — Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former US first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Attacks on Sierra Leone's main military barracks and prisons were a failed coup attempt and have resulted in the arrest of 13 military officers, the government's spokesman said Tuesday. The attackers attempted to...
UTTARKASHI, India (AP) — All 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in northern India for more than two weeks were pulled out on Tuesday, bringing a happy end to a drawn-out rescue mission that had gripped the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan High Court on Tuesday struck out key clauses of a contentious finance law that has been blamed for significantly raising taxes and the cost of living in East Africa's largest economy. High court judges...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): VICE-PRESIDENT BHARRAT Jagdeo has warned Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro not to ”ever question” the resolve of Guyana, reiterating that the population remains united in the face of claims by Caracas to the ownership of the...
