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September 2025
Zookeeper reflects on caring for Latin America’s last panda
MEXICO CITY (AP): After a decade of caring for camels, lions, lynxes and lemurs, Joel Frías joined the team handling the Chapultepec Zoo’s star attraction: the giant pandas. It was 2000, and Mexico…
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September 2025
Body of young migrant found on the beach as crossings to UK rise
PARIS (AP): French authorities announced the discovery Sunday of a body on a beach used as one of the launch points for migrants attempting the perilous sea crossing from northern France to the UK on…
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September 2025
Death toll climbs to 40 after stampede at political rally for popular actor
NEW DELHI (AP) The death toll following a stampede at a political rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 40, the state’s health minister…
September 2025
Prominent educator with Guyanese heritage detained by ICE
DES MOINES, CMC-The Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) Friday confirmed that the superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, Dr Ian Roberts, had been arrested by federal immigration authorities. …
September 2025
Tropical weather in the Atlantic is slamming the Caribbean and may strike Southeast US next
MIAMI (AP) — Dangerous tropical weather brewed Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean with Humberto intensifying into a powerful Category 4 hurricane and a separate weather system taking aim at the Southeast…
September 2025
UN says Haiti remains in the ‘eye of the storm’
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed says Haiti is “at the eye of a storm” with armed gangs tearing apart communities and families being forced from…
September 2025
Former FBI Director Comey indicted on charges of making a false statement, obstruction
Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to…
September 2025
Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black militant sought by the US since 1979, dies in Cuba
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has…
September 2025
Humberto becomes a hurricane in the Atlantic as Gabrielle moves away from the Azores
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Humberto formed Friday in the Atlantic Ocean on track to become a major hurricane, while forecasters monitored a nearby tropical disturbance that could bring dangerous weather…