DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Five people remain unaccounted for, including two people whose remains may be in a pile of rubble at the site of a partially collapsed apartment building, officials of the city of Davenport, Iowa, said Tuesday. Mayor...
BRASILIA (AP): South America’s leaders will gather in Brazil’s capital tomorrow as part of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s attempt to reinvigorate regional integration efforts that have previously floundered amid the continent’s political...
KAMPALA (AP): Uganda’s president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country, but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni doesn’...
(AP): In an edited video of his meeting on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that was released by Zelenskyy’s office, Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, noted that “the Russians are dying” and described the US...
ROME (AP): Two UN agencies warned on Monday of rising food emergencies, including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war, and in Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali due to restricted movements of people and goods. The four countries join...
GEORGETOWN (AP): A teenage student who police in Guyana accuse of deliberately setting a fire in a girl’s dormitory that killed 18 schoolmates and a five-year-old boy was charged Monday as an adult with 19 counts of murder. The 15-year-old girl...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Nine people were injured Monday evening when gunfire erupted along a boardwalk in Hollywood, Florida, sending people frantically running for cover along the crowded beach on Memorial Day. Several of the victims were...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A judge sentenced former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes to 14 years in prison Monday for negotiating with gangs during his administration. Funes' trial began in April with the former leader living in...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations that the country supplied arms to Russia on a ship that docked secretly at a naval base in December. The...
MILAN (AP) — A body was retrieved early Monday in a northern Italian lake by police divers, raising to four the final death toll in the capsizing of a tourist boat a day earlier during a sudden, violent storm that included a whirlwind. Two...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill signed by President...
CHICAGO (AP): During Donald Trump’s first visit as president to Chicago, a frequent target in his attacks on urban violence, he disparaged the nation’s third largest city as a haven for criminals and a national embarrassment. At a recent town...
NEW DELHI (AP): India’s major opposition parties on Sunday boycotted the inauguration of a new parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a rare show of unity against his Hindu nationalist ruling party, which has ruled for nine...
Christian Jonathan’s mother was holding the nine-month-old boy in her arms when she was shot dead during an attack on their village in northwestern Nigeria. The assailants cut off one of Christian’s fingers and abandoned him by the side of the road...
SEOUL (AP): A passenger opened an emergency exit door during a plane flight in South Korea on Friday, causing air to blast inside the cabin and slightly injure 12 people, officials said. The plane landed safely. Some people aboard the Asiana...
NASSAU (CMC): United States Vice-President Kamala Harris will meet with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders early next month, it has been officially announced here. Press Secretary Clint Watson said that Harris, who will be the highest US...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have appointed three former prime ministers as members of an Eminent Persons Group (EPG) as the regional integration grouping seeks to extend its good offices to the government of Haiti and...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis skipped meetings Friday because he was running a fever after a particularly busy day, the Vatican said. The Vatican No 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said Francis was tired and attributed the fever to the fact...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation Friday that will ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list of protected categories such as race, sex, and religion. “We all deserve...
LANTANA, Fla. (AP) — Two people died Friday when a small plane crashed at a small South Florida airport, Palm Beach County sheriff's officials said. The crash at the Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana happened shortly after 11 a.m...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nearly five years after he was arrested at a South African airport, Mozambique's former finance minister has lost a last-ditch court appeal and faces extradition to the United States over a $2 billion corruption...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP): Prosecutors have widened their case against members of a small polygamous group that resides near the Utah-Arizona border, detailing its leader’s sexual encounters with children he took as wives in new charges filed earlier...
NEW YORK (AP): Ron DeSantis ’ entry into the 2024 White House race against former President Donald Trump sets up a clash of the Republican Party’s two leading figures as the Florida governor attempts to topple a man who has dominated the GOP for...
LONDON (AP): When Peter Brown died alone in London without any known family, neighbours made sure that the humble 96-year-old Jamaican man who had volunteered as a teen to fight for Britain in World War II was not forgotten. Hundreds of people –...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 struck late Wednesday in the Caribbean Sea just off the Panama-Colombia border. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), there was no immediate...
