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An American Airlines jetliner lands on a runway as a United Airlines plane waits for clearance to take off as high winds strafe Denver International Airport Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Published 22 hours ago

Jet fuel prices and airfares are rising but travellers are still booking flights, US airlines say

Major United States airlines say they are not expecting a significant dent in quarterly profits despite soaring jet fuel costs tied to the war in the Middle East adding hundreds of millions of dollars…
A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol on June 20, 2024, in Atlanta.
Published 19 hours ago

US judge strikes down Arkansas law mandating schools display Ten Commandments

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms was struck down by a federal judge Monday. The law is among those…
President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Justice Winston Anderson.
Updated 10 hours ago

CCJ president proposes international climate injuries compensation fund

BRASILIA, Brazil, CMC – President of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Justice Winston Anderson has proposed the establishment of an international climate injuries compensation…
The YouTube app is displayed on an iPad in Baltimore on March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
March 17, 2026

YouTube makes World Cup deal with FIFA that lets broadcasters show parts of games live

ZURICH (AP) — YouTube made a World Cup deal with FIFA on Tuesday that lets rights-holding broadcasters stream game action live on the video platform that offers global access to young viewers. FIFA…
 An airplane is refuelled at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash., on Sunday, November 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
March 18, 2026

Jet fuel prices are rising. That could make summer flights more expensive

Jet fuel prices are rising as the war in the Middle East disrupts global oil supplies, putting cost pressure on airlines as the busy summer travel season approaches. Experts say it’s not a question…
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne. - File photo.
March 16, 2026

Antigua gov’t absorbing fuel price increases, says PM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Prime Minister Gaston Browne says the Government of Antigua and Barbuda has been absorbing part of the impact of rising global fuel prices in an effort to limit increases in…
Two women from the Iranian Red Crescent Society stand as a thick plume of smoke from a US-Israeli strike on an oil storage facility rises in the sky in Tehran.
March 16, 2026

After attacks on oil facilities, toxic black rain endangers the public

Clouds of toxic smoke unleashed into the atmosphere by US-Israeli airstrikes on Iranian oil facilities made a dangerous return to Earth in the form of ‘black rain’, prompting international health…
Meghan Markle, and her husband Prince Harry, at One World Trade in New York, in 2021.
March 16, 2026

Harry and Meghan slam author of new book on royals for ‘deranged conspiracy’

LONDON (AP): Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have hit back at the author of a new book on Britain’s royal family, describing his writing as “deranged conspiracy and melodrama”. In…
A rescuer helps an elderly woman to leave her home damaged by Russian aerial guided bomb in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
March 16, 2026

Zelenskyy waiting on US and Russia for next round of talks

KYIV (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he was ready for the next round of trilateral peace talks to end Russia’s more than four-year-old invasion of Ukraine, but that it was up…