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Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne.
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…
Principal Fernando Hernandez looks on in an empty classroom where a teacher is taking a lunch break at Perkins K-8 School Thursday, November 13, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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…
Cattle graze on land burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil.
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…
Members of the religious sect Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) shout slogans during a three-day anti-corruption rally at Manila’s Rizal Park, Philippines.
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…
Tim Gackstatter (left) and Dirk Gissel lead sheep past the Frauenkirche and the main market square in Nuremberg’s city centre, Germany.
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.…
American aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.
December 9, 2025

Aircraft carrier arrives in the Caribbean in major build-up

WASHINGTON (AP): The United States’ most advanced aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday in a display of US military power, raising questions about what the new influx of troops and…
Colombian President Gustavo Petro
December 9, 2025

Seven children killed in an airstrike against a rebel group

BOGOTA (AP): Colombia’s human rights ombudswoman said Saturday that seven children were killed in a controversial airstrike against a rebel group in the country’s south earlier this week, as the…
Police officers patrol an area near the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
December 9, 2025

World Bank supports upgrades in transport infrastructure

WASHINGTON (CMC): The World Bank says its board of executive directors has approved a new project in Haiti aimed at improving resilient rural accessibility and road connectivity in the south and…
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro attends a meeting at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, February 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
December 9, 2025

Venezuelan president says regional peace threatened by joint military drills between Trinidad and US

CARACAS, CMC – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is warning that Trinidad and Tobago’s joint military drills with the United States could “threaten peace” in the Caribbean. He made the statement…