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Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2023 | 11:17 AM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — More than four years after gunmen killed emerging rap star XXXTentacion during a robbery outside a South Florida motorcycle shop, three suspects are now scheduled to go on trial. Shooting suspect...

Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2023 | 10:19 AM

PARIS (AP) — An attacker wounded six people in an unprovoked blade attack in Paris' busy Gare du Nord train station Wednesday morning before being shot and wounded by police, France's interior minister said, praising the swift...

Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2023 | 9:29 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is lifting a ground stop on flights across the US following a computer outage early Wednesday that resulted in thousands of delays and hundreds of cancellations quickly cascading through the...

Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2023 | 8:13 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — A computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration brought flights to a standstill across the US on Wednesday, with hundreds of delays quickly cascading through the system at airports nationwide. The FAA ordered all US...

Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2023 | 1:01 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Haiti awoke on Tuesday stripped of its last democratically elected institution – this time, its Senate – an alarming development that solidifies what some call a de facto dictatorship nominally in charge of a country...

Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2023 | 1:00 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): “No amnesty! No amnesty! No amnesty!” The chant reverberated off the walls of the jam-packed hall at the University of São Paulo’s law college on Monday afternoon. Within hours, it was the rallying cry for thousands of...

Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2023 | 12:58 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday pledged to promote prosperity for people throughout the hemisphere as they opened wide-ranging talks about the fragile security situation in Haiti, North...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 9:41 PM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's Vice President said on Tuesday that her security team found more than seven kilos of explosives buried next to a rural road that leads to her home in the southwestern province of Cauca. She described...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 9:35 PM

MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration is under growing pressure from leftists in Latin America as well as United States lawmakers to expel Jair Bolsonaro from a post-presidential retreat in Florida following his supporters' brazen attack...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 9:15 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with a proposal that would lower student debt payments for millions of Americans now and in the future, offering a new route to repay federal loans under far more generous terms. President...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 7:28 PM

HOUSTON (AP) — A former suburban Houston police officer was set to be executed Tuesday for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago. Robert Fratta, 65, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection for the November...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 4:27 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — “No amnesty! No amnesty! No amnesty!” The chant reverberated off the walls of the jam-packed hall at the University of Sao Paulo's law college on Monday afternoon. Within hours, it was the rallying cry...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 3:30 PM

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania's capital Bucharest has upheld the 30-day arrest of divisive social media personality and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate on charges of organised crime, human trafficking and rape, an...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 11:55 AM

LONDON (AP) — After weeks of hype and days of leaks, readers got a chance to judge Prince Harry's book for themselves when it went on sale around the world on Tuesday. In Britain, a few stores opened at midnight to sell copies...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 11:46 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy will come “perilously close” to a recession this year, led by weaker growth in all the world's top economies, the United States, Europe and China, the World Bank warned on Tuesday. In...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 8:24 AM

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government suspended issuing tourist and business visas Tuesday for South Koreans, and reportedly for Japanese, in apparent retaliation for COVID-19 testing requirements imposed by those countries on travellers...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 1:07 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Brazilian authorities vowed Monday to protect democracy and punish thousands of supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed and trashed the nation’s highest seats of power in chaos with striking similarities to the...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 1:05 AM

AP: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government has wasted no time implementing its ultra-nationalist agenda, including adopting a seemingly petty ban on displaying the Palestinian flag and shaking the foundations of Israel’s democracy with...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 1:02 AM

DAKAR (AP): At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in a bus crash in central Senegal, the country’s president said on Sunday. President Macky Sall tweeted that the collision happened in Gnivy village, in the Kaffrine region, at about 3:...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 1:00 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The 15-member CARICOM grouping has “strongly” condemned “the violent invasion of government buildings that occurred in Brasilia on Sunday as it reaffirmed its commitment to the rule of law”. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da...

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2023 | 12:58 AM

ST JOHN’S (CMC): The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has decided to eliminate the requirement for work permits for nationals of CARICOM countries who are gainfully employed in Antigua and Barbuda, effective January 1 this year. “The...

Published:Monday | January 9, 2023 | 2:17 PM

SANTA CRUZ, California (AP) — Californians grappled with flooding and mudslides Monday as the latest in a series of powerful storms walloped the state, shuttering schools, toppling trees and leaving tens of thousands without power. Evacuation...

Published:Monday | January 9, 2023 | 12:44 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian authorities vowed Monday to protect democracy and punish thousands of supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed and trashed the nation's highest seats of power in chaos with striking...

Published:Monday | January 9, 2023 | 12:18 AM

KABUL (AP): The Taliban’s “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralysing humanitarian work in Afghanistan, head of a major aid agency told AP on Sunday, after he arrived on a week-long trip to talk to Taliban leaders about reversing a ban...

Published:Monday | January 9, 2023 | 12:16 AM

BERLIN (AP): Climate activists pledged Sunday to defend a tiny village in western Germany from being bulldozed for the expansion of a nearby coal mine that has become a battleground between the government and environmental campaigners. Hundreds of...

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