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The New Democratic Party (NDP) has secured victory in the 2025 national elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines, defeating the Dr Ralph Gonsalves-led United Labour Party (ULP). Dr Godwin Friday, the NDP leader, will become the island’s...
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A deadly crash has forced UPS Airlines to ground a fleet of planes for inspections and possible repairs that could last through the peak delivery season, the company said Wednesday in an internal memo. The airline grounded its McDonnell Douglas...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government on Wednesday defended its decision to pilot legislation allowing for homeowners to defend their properties, even by the use of deadly force, as the opposition warned that the...
Two West Virginia National Guard members who were shot Wednesday near the White House have died, the state's governor said. Governor Patrick Morrisey confirmed their deaths in a social media post. "We are in ongoing contact with federal...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Rodrigo Paz of Bolivia said Tuesday he planned to scrap a ream of taxes, in one of his first moves since becoming the nation's first conservative leader in nearly two decades in a bid to rescue a crisis-stricken...
BELEM (AP): Indigenous people filled the streets, paddled the water ways and protested at the heart of the venue to make their voices heard during the United Nations climate talks that were supposed to give them a voice like never before at the...
NABUMALI (AP): Among the most sensitive family disputes Moses Kutoi mediates are those involving upset men questioning why some of their children don’t resemble them. For the Ugandan clan leader attuned to the wisdom of his ancestors, the matter...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump’s administration is promoting efforts to work with Nigeria’s government to counter violence against Christians, signalling a broader strategy since he ordered preparations for possible military action and...
The Government of Grenada will host the Connected Caribbean Summit 2025 (CCS2025) from December 1–5 at the Radisson Grenada Beach Resort, Grand Anse. The summit will bring together more than 200 senior leaders from across the Caribbean and the...
LONDON (AP) — The BBC's chairman acknowledged Monday that it was too slow in responding over a misleading edit of a speech by US President Donald Trump but rejected claims that the broadcaster's impartiality was being undermined from within its...
GENEVA (AP) Talks between Ukraine and its Western allies on a US-proposed peace plan to end Russia's invasion got underway in Geneva on Sunday, Ukrainian officials. The head of the Ukrainian delegation, presidential chief of staff Andrii Yermak...
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) launched at COP30 on November 13 the Caribbean Multi-Guarantor Debt-for-Resilience Joint Initiative, a...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A detention order has been issued for a woman who posted an image of Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s private residence on social media and urged Venezuela to target it, the Trinidad Guardian...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Armed men attacked a Catholic boarding school in a western region of Nigeria and abducted several schoolchildren and staff early Friday, the latest in a spate of abductions in Africa's most populous country that came just...
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Several nations and environmental groups on Friday slammed proposals put forward at the UN climate talks in Brazil, saying they failed to explicitly mention the cause of global warming — the burning of fuels such as oil, gas...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington National Cathedral on Thursday hosted a bipartisan show of respect and remembrance for Dick Cheney, the consequential and polarising vice president who in later years became an acidic scold of fellow Republican...
