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Published:Saturday | September 20, 2025 | 12:08 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): A Haitian gang attacked a small town northwest of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, killing, kidnapping and burning down buildings as gang violence devours the Caribbean nation. Gunmen opened fired on the streets of Bassin Bleu...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 12:52 PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A Haitian gang attacked a small town northwest of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, killing, kidnapping and burning down buildings as gang violence devours the Caribbean nation. Gunmen opened fire on the streets of...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 11:55 AM

OAK GLEN, California (AP) — Mudslides and debris flows knocked down trees, ploughed into homes and trapped drivers for 10 hours after several Southern California communities were hit by heavy rain, authorities said. No one was hurt and...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 12:50 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): The US Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned members of a Sinaloa cartel faction known as Los Mayos, one of the groups that has tormented Sinaloa’s capital in an ongoing war for control. The move came on the same day that US...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 12:50 AM

UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations Thursday said that last week’s deadly attack in the commune of Cabaret, in the West Department, has forced thousands of people to flee their home in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM)...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 12:51 AM

KINGSTOWN (CMC): The ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) will outline its policy on artificial intelligence in its manifesto for the general election widely expected by November 2025, ahead of the February 2026 constitutional deadline. Finance minister...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 12:52 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Barbados’ Foreign Minister, Kerrie Symmonds , has expressed concerns at the recent United States military strikes on vessels suspected of drug trafficking, saying the actions may have bypassed due process and risk...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 12:52 AM

NEW YORK (CMC): Caribbean immigration advocates in New York have welcomed a United States District Court ruling on Thursday granting a preliminary injunction prohibiting the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency from detaining...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 12:08 AM

CAIRO (AP): A boat carrying Sudanese refugees caught fire and sank over the weekend off Libya’s coast, killing at least 50 people as it headed toward Greece, the International Organization for Migration said Thursday. The boat sank about 60...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 12:07 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the US alone back to their home country, the latest step in a court struggle over one of...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 12:07 AM

AYLESBURY (AP): After ABC suspended comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show following a threat from the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), congressional Democrats have denounced the Trump administration’s threats against political...

Published:Friday | September 19, 2025 | 12:06 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): The United States once again vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Thursday that had demanded for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages after saying that the effort did not go far enough in...

Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 12:57 PM

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An immigration judge has denied bond to a man who has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since he sought police help as the victim of a near-fatal shooting in Iowa months ago. The ruling issued Wednesday...

Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 10:30 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel's television future hung in the balance Thursday after ABC suspended his late-night show following the host's comments about Charlie Kirk's killing, which prompted dozens of stations to say they wouldn't air the show,...

Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The last time she saw her husband, the father of her three children, was when he left their Washington apartment a month ago to buy milk and diapers. Before long he called to say he had been pulled over – but not to worry, because...

Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 12:09 AM

LONDON (CMC): Commonwealth Secretary General, Shirley Botchway, Wednesday said she is “deeply disturbed” at the recent incursion by members of the Guatemalan military into Belize. “I am deeply disturbed by recent reports that the Guatemalan Army...

Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 12:07 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Naika and Erica Lafleur stared at a pile of rubble where their house once stood in Haiti’s capital and began to cry. Their mother had instructed the two sisters, ages 10 and 13, to visit the home they fled last year and report...

Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 12:07 AM

LONDON (AP): US President Donald Trump received a royal reception at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, but beyond the castle walls many others did not welcome his unprecedented second state visit. Thousands of people marched through central London to...

Published:Wednesday | September 17, 2025 | 11:32 AM

LONDON (AP) — US President Donald Trump received a royal reception at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, but beyond the castle walls many others did not welcome his unprecedented second state visit. Several thousand people marched through central...

Published:Wednesday | September 17, 2025 | 10:21 AM

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Gabrielle formed Wednesday in the Atlantic Ocean but was far from land, forecasters said. Gabrielle was centred over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) east of the Northern Leeward Islands, with maximum sustained winds of...

Published:Tuesday | September 16, 2025 | 7:59 AM

Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of one of his best-loved characters, died Tuesday at 89. Redford died "at his home at Sundance in...

Published:Tuesday | September 16, 2025 | 12:08 AM

LONDON (AP): Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday condemned “dangerous” comments by Elon Musk after the X and Tesla owner told an anti-immigration rally that violence is coming to Britain and they must fight or die. But the UK government resisted...

Published:Tuesday | September 16, 2025 | 12:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump says the US military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing three aboard the vessel. “The Strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in...

Published:Tuesday | September 16, 2025 | 12:08 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Gunmen attacked an armoured vehicle in a community near Haiti’s capital, leaving two police officers injured and one driver dead, authorities said Monday. The attack occurred over the weekend in the once peaceful farming...

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 11:49 AM

MADRID (AP) — A framework deal has been reached between China and the US for the ownership of popular social video platform TikTok, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said after weekend trade talks in Spain. Bessent said in a press conference...

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