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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro points at a map of the Americas during a press conference in Caracas.
21 Sep, 2025 0

President Maduro’s YouTube account offline as tensions with US escalate

BOGOTA (AP) The YouTube account of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was offline Saturday, with Venezuelan state-run channel Telesur claiming in a message on X that it was “eliminated” late the…
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Prycee (left) celerates her 17th World Championship medal, a silver in the women's 4x100 metres, by taking a selfie with her teammates from left: Tina Clayton, Tia Clayton, and Jonielle Smih.
21 Sep, 2025 0

Fraser-Pryce mines 17th medal in final World Championships

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made a wet, yet wonderful exit from big-time international athletics with a lead-off leg which spurred her colleagues onto a memorable silver medal in the women’s 4x100-metre…
(From left): Igal Scott, Nickoy Binnie, Aaliyah Innis, Emeka Maxwell and Troy Cardwell pose for a photo after the beach clean-up exercise at Coral Gardens Citizen Association Beach in St James.
21 Sep, 2025 0

FWCF joins International Coastal Cleanup for cleaner seas

The Fi We Children Foundation (FWCF) hosted the sixth annual International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day activity at the Coral Gardens Citizen Association Beach, joining millions of volunteers across the…
21 Sep, 2025 0

A booming longevity industry wants to sell us ‘immortality’

If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren’t just making tech products, they’ve set their sights on immortality. Social media is flooded with influencers…
Jamaica's 4x400-metre women, from left: Dejanea Oakley, Nickisha Pryce, Stacey-Ann Williams, and Andrenette Knight celebrate the silver medal they won at the World Athletics Championships. The Jamaicans clocked 3:19.25.
21 Sep, 2025 0

Jamaica's 400m women mine silver

Jamaica splashed their way to another silver medal in horribly wet conditions in Tokyo at the World Athletics Championships inside the Japan National Sadium. Like their male counterparts, the island’s…
A young member of the Afro-Bolivian community dances the ‘saya’, a traditional dance performed with drums and chants, as part of the celebrations to mark the National Day of Afro-Bolivian people, in La Paz.
21 Sep, 2025 0

Afro-descendants fight invisibility with dance and memory

YUNGAS (AP): Cielo Torres had always lived in Bolivia. Yet, before moving at age 17 to the remote town of Tocaña – where much of the country’s Afro-descendant community lives – she had rarely…
Jamaica’s Jashauna Dennis (right) hands over to Rusheen McDonald (second right) during the men’s 4x400-metre final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. Jamaica finished seventh in 3:03.46.
21 Sep, 2025 0

Jamaican men miss out on 4x400m medal

Jamaica’s hopes of gaining a medal in the men’s 4x400m relay were washed away in monsoon-like conditions at Japan’s National Stadium in Tokyo. The Island went with nearly the same team, which…
Tourists visit the Egyptian museum in Cairo, Egypt.
21 Sep, 2025 0

Outrage after ancient Pharaoh's bracelet stolen and melted down

CAIRO (AP) Egyptians reacted with outrage this week after officials said that a 3,000-year-old bracelet that had belonged to an ancient Pharaoh was stolen from Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum…
In this 2021 photo, a gate is seen at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
21 Sep, 2025 0

Taliban reject Trump’s bid to retake Bagram Air Base

JALALABAD (AP): The Taliban government on Sunday rejected US President Donald Trump’s bid to retake Bagram Air Base, four years after America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan left the sprawling…