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December 9, 2025
Dick Cheney's funeral brings bipartisan tributes, but Trump was not invited
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington National Cathedral on Thursday hosted a bipartisan show of respect and remembrance for Dick Cheney, the consequential and polarising vice president who in later years…
December 9, 2025
Indonesia's Mount Semeru erupts, blanketing villages with ash and prompting evacuations
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's Mount Semeru, the highest peak on Java island, erupted Wednesday, blanketing several villages with falling ash, prompting evacuations and leading authorities…
December 9, 2025
Cloudflare outage disrupts ChatGPT, X, other internet services
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, League of Legends and other prominent internet…
December 9, 2025
T&T government widens bans on fetes at sporting venues
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Tuesday widened her ban on carnival activities at major sporting venues, a few weeks after announcing a similar ban at the Brian…
December 9, 2025
Antigua PM urges US to resolve differences with Venezuela using diplomacy
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Monday urged the United States to settle its differences with Venezuela "through diplomacy and dialogue”, reiterating…
December 9, 2025
Immigrant student enrolment is dwindling at schools across the US amid immigration crackdowns
From Miami to San Diego, schools around the US are seeing big drops in enrolment of students from immigrant families. In some cases, parents have been deported or voluntarily returned to their home…
December 9, 2025
A new push to track cattle is key to slowing deforestation
BELEM (AP): Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian countryside near the town of Novo Repartimento. She’s piercing…
December 9, 2025
Hundreds of thousands rally in Manila against flood-control corruption scandal
MANILA (AP): Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in the capital in the largest rally so far to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal that has implicated powerful…
December 9, 2025
Make way for the flock! Hundreds of sheep head to their winter pastures
BERLIN (AP): Pedestrians in the German city of Nuremberg made way for hundreds of bleating sheep on Sunday as a flock of the animals was herded through downtown on its way to its winter quarters.…