Instagram parent company Meta has introduced new safety features aimed at protecting teens who use its platforms, including information about accounts that message them and an option to block and report accounts with one tap. The company also...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' top court in a landmark advisory opinion Wednesday said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and nations...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Three Haitian police officers and two civilians were killed in the country's central region, where gang violence has surged, the government and a police union said Wednesday. The officers were members of a...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenadian government has restricted public access to the male surgical ward of the General Hospital in response to recent safety concerns involving suspected gang-related activity in the vicinity of the hospital....
JOHANNESBURG (AP): A head-on collision between a minibus taxi and a haulage truck killed 17 people in northeastern Zimbabwe on Tuesday police said. Police spokesman Paul Nyathi said all 17 victims, including some pedestrians, died at the scene of...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): A High Court has awarded US$3.6 million to the family of a child after a botched delivery 12 years ago left their newborn boy with lifelong brain injuries and near-total physical disability. “I, therefore, find on a balance...
The head of a violent Ecuadorian gang accused of smuggling cocaine and firearms between South America and the US pleaded not guilty to drug and gun charges on Monday in New York. José Adolfo Macías Villamar, whose nickname is ‘Fito’, appeared in...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP): Hundreds of students protested Tuesday near the site of the crash of a Bangladesh air force training jet into a school in the nation’s capital, demanding accountability, compensation for victims’ families and the halt of...
SAN JUAN (AP): Puerto Rico’s government filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a private power company, claiming it is responsible for damages to customers’ appliances caused by chronic power outages in the US territory. The civil lawsuit by the consumer...
WASHINGTON (CMC ):T he Trump administration says it is taking deportation actions against legal permanent residents in the United States affiliated with the Haitian foreign terrorist organisation, Viv Ansanm. “I am pleased to announce the latest US...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): The Trinidad-based Caribbean Freedom Project (CFP) is calling on the Bahamian authorities to pardon Shervandaze Smith, who was convicted in 2023 for smashing the Christopher Columbus statue outside Government House in 2021....
ISLAMABAD (AP: The United Nations on Monday expressed concern about the Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for their alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress code. In May 2022, the Taliban government issued a decree calling for...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Authorities in Bermuda said Tuesday that they arrested four US cruise ship passengers accused of drug possession. Police said in a statement that the suspects had a “significant quantity of illegal drugs” including...
ALBANY, NY (AP) — New York will soon make phone calls free in its state prisons, officials said Tuesday. People who are incarcerated in the state's prisons currently receive three free, 15-minute phone calls a week. After that, the calls cost 2....
The United States announced Tuesday it will again pull out of the UN's educational, scientific and cultural agency because it believes that its involvement is not in the country's national interest, and that the agency promotes anti-Israel speech...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Former Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Monday said he had been detained on a stopover in Antigua and Barbuda and that his name had been placed on a watch list of the Paris-based International Police (INTERPOL). Rowley, a trained...
MANADO, (AP): The number of people saved from an Indonesian passenger ferry that caught fire at sea rose to 575, rescuers said Monday, but three died and two remained missing. The KM Barcelona V-A caught fire around midday Sunday while making its...
DHAKA (AP): A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka, shortly after takeoff on Monday, killing at least 19 people including the pilot and injuring more than 100, officials said. According to the...
LATHAM, NY (AP): A Canadian man who reported his nine-year-old daughter missing in New York has been arrested after she was found dead, authorities said Monday. Luciano Frattolin, the father of Melina Frattolin, was charged with second-degree...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former prime minister Dr, Keith Rowley Monday said he had been detained on a stopover in Antigua and Barbuda and that his name had been placed on a watch list of the Paris-based International Police (INTERPOL)....
LATHAM, NY (AP) — A Canadian man whose 9-year-old daughter was found dead after he reported that she had been abducted while they were vacationing in upstate New York was charged Monday with murder. Luciano Frattolin is charged with murder and...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The new United States Ambassador to Haiti, Henry Wooster, says his priority is to address the security situation in the CARICOM country where criminal gangs have been seeking to overthrow the government. In a video...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) says it has detained an attorney and the main suspect in the death of a 22-year-old woman, whose body was found in a black suitcase dumped in a pond in Sangre Grande,...
AUSTIN (AP): The number of people still missing in a Texas county ravaged by deadly flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend now stands at three, down from nearly 100. The announcement Saturday by Kerr County that the list of missing has...
SUVA PLANINA (AP): A severe drought this summer has left over 1,000 cows and horses without water on a mountain in southeast Serbia, forcing the authorities to bring up emergency supplies. The early drought that started in May has affected people...
