Friday, March 29, 2024

World

Four killed during stabbing spree in Illinois

Illinois, USA - Four people have been killed and at least five injured after a man armed with a knife went on a rampage in the US state of...

Disgraced ‘Crypto King’ to be sentenced

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire crypto boss who was convicted of fraud and money laundering last year, will...

Gayle and T20 trophy ‘on top of the world’!

Former West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle lit up the iconic Empire State Building in New York recently as...

Joe Lieberman, former vice presidential candidate, dies at 82

Former US Senator and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman has died at 82. The cause was complications from a fall,...

Haiti: US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fuelling surge in violence

Haiti is a state out of action. More than two weeks after the country's prime minister resigned, following a...

Cuba-US warming held up by listing of Cuba as terror sponsor

HAVANA (AP) - American hopes of opening an embassy in Havana before presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet at a regional summit this...

Strikes proliferate in China as working class awakens

NANLANG TOWNSHIP, China (AP) - Timid by nature, Shi Jieying took a risk last month and joined fellow workers in a strike at her...

Gunman in Kenyan massacre was government official’s son

GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — One of the gunmen who slaughtered 148 people at a college in Kenya was identified Sunday as the law-school-educated son of a Kenyan government...

Pressure on Lufthansa CEO after crash

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in France has heaped intense pressure on Lufthansa’s CEO Carsten Spohr, who in less...

Hundreds of enslaved fishermen freed

TUAL, Indonesia (AP) – The same trawlers that had enslaved countless migrant fishermen for years carried more than 300 of them to freedom Saturday,...

Needle exchange to curb HIV outbreak

AUSTIN, Ind. (AP) – Health officials in Indiana on Saturday began a needle-exchange program Saturday in a county where an HIV outbreak among intravenous...