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Published:Thursday | November 20, 2025 | 11:16 AM

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday called for countries at climate talks in Brazil to compromise and "show willingness and flexibility to deliver results," even if they fall short of the strongest measures some...

Published:Wednesday | November 19, 2025 | 12:59 PM

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's Mount Semeru, the highest peak on Java island, erupted Wednesday, blanketing several villages with falling ash, prompting evacuations and leading authorities to raise the alert to the highest level. Mount...

Published:Tuesday | November 18, 2025 | 12:53 PM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Tuesday widened her ban on carnival activities at major sporting venues, a few weeks after announcing a similar ban at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy (BLCA). Persad Bissessar...

Published:Tuesday | November 18, 2025 | 8:38 AM

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, League of Legends and other prominent internet services. Cloudflare said on its status page...

Published:Monday | November 17, 2025 | 11:17 AM

From Miami to San Diego, schools around the US are seeing big drops in enrolment of students from immigrant families. In some cases, parents have been deported or voluntarily returned to their home countries, driven out by President Donald Trump...

Published:Monday | November 17, 2025 | 10:14 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Monday urged the United States to settle its differences with Venezuela "through diplomacy and dialogue”, reiterating that the Caribbean region should be a zone of peace...

Published:Monday | November 17, 2025 | 12:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The United States’ most advanced aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday in a display of US military power, raising questions about what the new influx of troops and weaponry could signal for the Trump...

Published:Monday | November 17, 2025 | 12:07 AM

WASHINGTON (CMC): The World Bank says its board of executive directors has approved a new project in Haiti aimed at improving resilient rural accessibility and road connectivity in the south and north departments. The Washington-based financial...

Published:Monday | November 17, 2025 | 12:07 AM

BOGOTA (AP): Colombia’s human rights ombudswoman said Saturday that seven children were killed in a controversial airstrike against a rebel group in the country’s south earlier this week, as the administration of President Gustavo Petro steps up...

Published:Monday | November 17, 2025 | 12:06 AM

BERLIN (AP): Pedestrians in the German city of Nuremberg made way for hundreds of bleating sheep on Sunday as a flock of the animals was herded through downtown on its way to its winter quarters. Curious bystanders, cellphones in hand to capture...

Published:Monday | November 17, 2025 | 12:06 AM

MANILA (AP): Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in the capital in the largest rally so far to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal that has implicated powerful members of Congress and top government...

Published:Monday | November 17, 2025 | 12:06 AM

BELEM (AP): Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian countryside near the town of Novo Repartimento. She’s piercing their ears. Their new jewellery – ear tags,...

Published:Sunday | November 16, 2025 | 4:48 PM

CARACAS, CMC – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is warning that Trinidad and Tobago’s joint military drills with the United States could “threaten peace” in the Caribbean. He made the statement in the aftermath of Trinidad and Tobago’s...

Published:Saturday | November 15, 2025 | 10:38 AM

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Some wore black dresses to signify a funeral for fossil fuels, hundreds wore red shirts, symbolizing the blood of colleagues fighting to protect the environment and others chanted, waved huge flags or held up signs Saturday in...

Published:Friday | November 14, 2025 | 12:59 PM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held...

Published:Friday | November 14, 2025 | 9:47 AM

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Nineteen West African nationals deported by the US to Ghana have been moved to an unknown location, a lawyer for one of the deportees said. Ana Dionne-Lanier, who represents one of the nationals, told The Associated Press on...

Published:Thursday | November 13, 2025 | 8:58 AM

President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without pay cheques, stranded scores of travellers at airports and generated long...

Published:Thursday | November 13, 2025 | 12:10 AM

MELBOURNE (AP): Australia’s highest court on Wednesday rejected Russia’s challenge to a law that evicted the state on security grounds from a site where Moscow wanted to build its new embassy. Seven High Court judges unanimously ruled that while...

Published:Wednesday | November 12, 2025 | 8:46 AM

CAIRO (AP) — At least 42 people are missing and presumed dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Libya last week, the UN's migration agency said on Wednesday. Seven survivors have been located after the vessel's engine...

Published:Tuesday | November 11, 2025 | 1:52 PM

LONDON (AP) — Britain's government rallied to the defence of the BBC on Tuesday after allegations of bias from its critics and the threat of a lawsuit from US President Donald Trump over the way the broadcaster edited a speech he made after losing...

Published:Tuesday | November 11, 2025 | 10:13 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber struck outside the gates of a district court in Islamabad on Tuesday, detonating his explosives next to a police car and killing 12 people, Pakistan's interior minister said, the latest in an uptick in violence...

Published:Tuesday | November 11, 2025 | 8:48 AM

Air travellers could face more frustration as busy US airports need to meet a higher Federal Aviation Administration target for reducing flights Tuesday after already cancelling thousands to scale back demands on the nation's aviation system...

Published:Monday | November 10, 2025 | 11:23 AM

LONDON (AP) — US President Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC over the way a speech he made was edited in a documentary aired by Britain's national broadcaster. BBC chairman Samir Shah on Monday apologised for the "error of...

Published:Monday | November 10, 2025 | 9:20 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced the latest in a series of strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs, killing six people in attacks on two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The dual strikes on Sunday...

Published:Monday | November 10, 2025 | 12:21 AM

SACRAMENTO (AP) : Acorn squash, Spam and baby food lined the shelves on a recent day at a college food pantry in California’s capital city, a resource that students receiving federal aid to purchase groceries may have to increasingly rely on...

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