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Pelosi to step aside from Democrat leadership,…
WASHINGTON (AP): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, making way for a new generation to steer the party after Democrats lost…
Republicans win slim House majority, complicating…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans won control of the US House on Wednesday, returning the party to power in Washington and giving conservatives leverage to blunt President Joe Biden's agenda and spur a…
Trump prepares to launch third campaign for the…
PALM BEACH (AP) : Former United States President Donald Trump is preparing to launch his third campaign for the White House on Tuesday, looking to move on from disappointing midterm defeats and defy…
Human Rights Defenders Condemn Mass Deportations…
Over 250,000 Haitian descendants do not have legal residence due to a deliberate policy of non-regularization of migration. On Monday, the Dominican Human Rights Committee (CDDH) and other social…
Biden, Xi clash on Taiwan but try to ‘manage’…
NUSA DUA (AP): United States President Joe Biden objected to China’s “coercive and increasingly aggressive actions” towards Taiwan during the first in-person meeting of his presidency with Xi Jinping,…
‘We don’t want to be refugees’: Antigua &…
Source: The Independent By Louise Boyle Antigua and Barbuda’s prime minister, Gaston Browne, has accused the United States of “subterfuge” in its approach to climate compensation for vulnerable…
UN Human Rights Urges To Stop Forced Deportation…
The current violence crisis in Haiti does not allow for a safe return, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk. Given the continued forced returns of Haitians, the…
WHO reports 90% drop in world COVID-19 deaths…
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization chief on Wednesday said a nearly 90% drop in recent COVID-19 deaths globally compared to nine months ago provides “cause for optimism,” but still urged…
America’s Democracy not trumped in mid-term…
By Sir Ronald Sanders In my commentary last week entitled, US Mid-term elections: a defining moment for the World, I pointed out that no less a person than Joseph R Biden Jr, the president of the…
COP27: UK Foreign Secretary pledges new support…
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is in Sharm el-Sheikh at COP27 to call for tangible action to deliver on the commitments made at COP26 in Glasgow and support developing economies to tackle the…
Ahead of COP27, young climate activists speak out
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP): Young climate activists from African nations have high demands but low expectations for the UN climate conference which began on Sunday in the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm…
US supports calls for external ethics probe into…
MIAMI (AP) — The head of the Organization of American States (OAS) is facing growing calls, including from the Biden administration, for an external probe into possible misconduct tied to his intimate…
Singer-rapper Aaron Carter dies in California at…
LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Aaron Carter, the singer-rapper who began performing as a child and had hit albums starting in his teen years, was found dead Saturday at his home in Southern California. He…
2023 World Athletics Relays postponed
The World Athletics Council has decided to postpone the World Athletics Relays scheduled for May 13 and 14, 2023 in Guangzhou, China, until April/May 2025. In a press release yesterday, World…
Caribbean brands stand out at int’l trade show
PARIS, France (CMC): Caribbean food and drink brands stood out from the crowd at the recently concluded international tradeshow SIAL Paris 2022, which attracted importers, buyers, distributors, and…