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NEW DELHI (AP): India and Pakistan’s latest military conflict has expanded, days after India carried out airstrikes in Pakistan that followed an attack by gunmen on tourists in India-controlled Kashmir last month. The two nuclear-armed rivals have...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP): India and Pakistan have fought three full-scale wars since they gained independence from Britain in 1947. They’ve also had dozens of skirmishes and conflicts, including one atop a glacier dubbed the coldest and highest-...
CHICLAYO, Peru (AP): The people of northern Peru call him ‘el obispo’. Sometimes he is also ‘Padre Prevost’. Maybe when the shock wears off, they will get used to his new title, Pope Leo XIV. Waiters, taxi drivers, teachers and others – faithful or...
CHICAGO (AP): After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signalling that a pope had been chosen, students in every classroom at The Frances Xavier Warde School in Chicago had their eyes glued to TV screens. As the image of the new...
NEW YORK (AP): United States President Donald Trump is eyeing Hollywood for his next round of tariffs, threatening to levy all films produced outside the US at a steep rate of 100 per cent. Last weekend, Trump accused other countries of “stealing...
GENEVA, CMC – Grenada is being urged to amend its Criminal Code to legalise abortion under all circumstances, which is among the 171 recommendations suggested to the Caribbean island during its 2025 Universal Periodic Review held in Geneva,...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC -Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad Bissessar has once again sought to assure the population that she is in “good health” and that she intends on carrying out her responsibilities as head of a new...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history's first US-born pontiff, said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass as the head of the Catholic Church. Leo spoke off-the-cuff in English in the...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Two leaders from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are at odds over the benefit of the controversial Citizenship By Investment (CBI) programme that some regional countries use to attract foreign investments....
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Ministry of Home Affairs has announced the appointment of a Canadian investigator to assist with the ongoing probe into the death of 11-year-old Adriana Younge. The move is in line with a commitment made by President Dr...
NEW DELHI (AP): Airlines in India have suspended flight operations from two dozen airports across northern and western regions of the country amid heightened tensions with Pakistan. India’s Civil Aviation Ministry late Thursday confirmed in a...
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. On Thursday, he ascended to become Pope Leo XIV...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP): Denmark on Thursday summoned the top US diplomat in the country for an explanation following a Wall Street Journal report about the United States stepping up intelligence gathering on Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish...
ISLAMABAD (AP): India fired missiles at Pakistan early Wednesday, in what it said was retaliation for last month’s massacre of Indian tourists. Pakistan called the strikes an act of war and claimed it downed several Indian fighter jets. The...
WASHINGTON (AP): US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office on Tuesday and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of "extra omnes" — Latin for "all out" — and 133 cardinals began the secretive, centuries-old ritual of electing a new pope to lead the Catholic Church, opening...
