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September 2025

Venezuela seeking closer ties with Suriname

PARAMARIBO (CMC): Venezuela is seeking closer ties with Suriname and has described as “ a new beginning” discussions held on Monday between Finance and Planning Minister, Adelien Wijnerman and the…
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September 2025

UN authorises much larger force to fight gangs in Haiti

UNITED NATIONS (AP): The UN Security Council voted Tuesday to authorise a much larger, 5,550-member international force to help stop escalating gang violence in Haiti. The resolution co-sponsored by…
Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit.
September 2025

Skerrit urges region against sowing seeds of discord among themselves

ROSEAU (CMC): Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit on Monday urged Caribbean countries against sowing “seeds of discord among ourselves”, maintaining his adopted position of many years that he would not…
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September 2025

Two-year-old chosen as new living goddess worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists

KATHMANDU (AP): A two-year-old girl chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess was carried by family members from their home in a Kathmandu alley to a temple palace Tuesday during the country’s longest and…
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September 2025

One man killed in Cuba as Tropical Storm Imelda, Hurricane Humberto threaten Bahamas and Bermuda

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Authorities in The Bahamas closed most schools yesterday as Tropical Storm Imelda dropped heavy rain in the northern Caribbean, including over Cuba where landslides killed…
A YouTube sign is shown near the company's headquarters in San Bruno, California, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)
September 2025

YouTube to pay US$24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Trump's account suspension after January 6 attack

Google's YouTube has agreed to pay US$24.5 million to settle a lawsuit President Donald Trump brought after the video site suspended his account following the January 6, 2021 attacks on the…
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September 2025

Trump, Netanyahu agree on plan to end Gaza war, await Hamas acceptance of terms

WASHINGTON (AP): United States (US) President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday they’ve agreed on a plan to end the war in Gaza, but it’s unclear whether Hamas…
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September 2025

Congressional leaders leave White House meeting without deal to avoid government shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP): A government shutdown fast approaching, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left a White House meeting with President Donald Trump yesterday afternoon showing little…
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September 2025

Weighing confrontation or diplomacy after UN sanctions reimposed over nuclear programme

DUBAI (AP) Iran’s theocracy prepared Sunday for a possible confrontation with the West after the United Nations reimposed sanctions over its nuclear programme, even as some pushed for continued…