Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:11 AM
KATHMANDU (AP): Protests against Nepal’s short-lived ban on social media grew increasingly violent Tuesday as demonstrators set government buildings and politicians’ homes on fire and attacked some leaders. The prime minister resigned amid widening...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:10 AM
TACOMA, Washington (AP): A 13-year-old boy, described by the police as obsessed with school shooters, was arrested on multiple firearms possession charges and causing a threat after they say they found social media posts about intentions to kill...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:07 AM
NASSAU (CMC): A High Court has dismissed the charges of abortion against Dr Jamil Minnis, the son of former prime minister Dr Hubert Minnis, in a case in which a 15-year-old girl ended a pregnancy. The court also dismissed the charges against the...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:07 AM
WASHINGTON (CMC): The Donald Trump administration has reaffirmed the strength of its partnership with the Trinidad and Tobago government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, as tension rises between the United States and Venezuela over the...
SAN JUAN (AP): US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Air Force General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Puerto Rico on Monday as the US steps up its military operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean. The arrival...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Tens of thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro took to the streets on Sunday, the country’s Independence Day, to rally against the Supreme Court ahead of its verdict this week in their leader’s...
SAN JUAN (AP): A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ban on US commercial flights to Haiti’s capital that expired Monday has been extended to March 7, 2026 because of the risk that powerful gangs might attack flights with drones and small arms....
ATLACOMULCO, Mexico (AP) — A freight train sheared a double-decker bus in half at a crossing northwest of Mexico City on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 55, authorities said. The accident took place in an industrial area of...
One of two unnamed lottery winners bought a ticket worth $893.5 million from a QuikTrip gas station in north St Louis County, Missouri, lottery officials announced Monday. The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61 and 62 with a Powerball number of...
MUMBAI (AP): Indians marked the final day of the Ganesh Chaturthi, a vibrant, 10-day Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Ganesh, revered as the remover of obstacles and god of wisdom, prosperity and new beginnings. At the end of the...
KATHMANDU (AP): Trishna Shakya, eight, looks imposing in her finery as she is carried high in the arms of a helper from the temple palace. As she rides a chariot bedecked in garlands of brilliant orange marigolds, a crowd of devotees lifts their...
NEW YORK (AP) : Armen Kirakosian remembers the frustrations of his first job as a call centre agent nearly 10 years ago: the aggravated customers, the constant searching through menus for information, and the notes he had to physically write for...
ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic (AP): Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a US government ship searching for...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine, particularly while its invasion was still ongoing, would be considered “legitimate targets” by Moscow’s forces. Putin’s comments came hours after European...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP): A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others, a police spokesman said Friday. The accident occurred near the town of Wellawaya...
LONDON (AP): The United Kingdom (UK) deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, resigned Friday after an independent inquiry found that she fell short of the standards expected of government ministers over a tax error on a recent house purchase. Rayner...
CARACAS (AP): María Alejandra Rubio hasn’t seen her son in five months. They were separated in the United States when she was detained to be deported to her native Venezuela and he was sent to live with a family friend. Rubio said US immigration...
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA (AP): Some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles, according to a Homeland Security official. Steven Schrank, special...
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit pleaded guilty or no-contest to all charges against him Friday, saying in court that he...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it will no longer allow Haitian nationals into the country for the purpose of applying for a visa to visit the United States. A brief statement from the Office of the Prime Minister noted that...
MUZAFFARGARH : Rivers are swelling to dangerous levels in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, forcing more than half a million people to flee their homes in the past 24 hours, officials said Thursday. The latest evacuations bring the total number...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States and Panama are urging the UN Security Council to authorise a 5,550-member force with the power to detain gang members in Haiti to help stop the escalating violence. The two countries outlined their proposal to...
LA PAZ (AP): A former Bolivian interior minister was deported late Wednesday from Florida to Bolivia, where authorities say he faces charges ranging from breach of duty for illegally importing weapons, to crimes against humanity for overseeing a...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (CMC): Governor Daniel Pruce has described gun crime as one of the most pressing security concerns facing the territory and said it must be addressed with urgency. Speaking during a recent press conference, Pruce...
DAKAR (AP): Congo’s health ministry on Thursday announced a new Ebola outbreak, the 16th in the central African country, after a case was confirmed in the southern Kasai province. “To date, the provisional report shows 28 suspected cases and 15...
