CHRISTIANSTED — In observance of World AIDS Day, the Virgin Islands Department of Health’s Communicable Diseases Division and Frederiksted Health Care Inc.’s Division of Social and Community Program reaffirm its commitment to advancing health equity. Together,…
DAMASCUS — Syrian opposition forces said they had captured the city of Maraat Al-Numan, south of Idlib city, putting the whole of Idlib province under opposition control, two opposition sources told Reuters today. Meanwhile, the…
MEXICO CITY — Miss Universe Cuba caused a splash in her national costume on the preliminary night of Miss Universe 2024 in Mexico. Marianela Ancheta wore an outfit inspired by the Yoruba goddess of love…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A member of Haiti’s transitional presidential council has publicly criticized remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron, who was caught on camera calling the Caribbean country’s leaders “total morons.” The council’s former president,…
DAMASCUS (AP) — Insurgents breached Syria’s largest city today and clashed with government forces for the first time since 2016, according to a war monitor and fighters, in a surprise attack that sent residents fleeing…
HONG KONG (AP) — A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday. Chinese-born Justin…
DAMASCUS – Fighting in northwestern Syria over the last three days has killed 27 civilians, including eight children, a U.N. official said today, in some of the worst violence in years between Syrian government forces…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — A senior police precinct chief in Haiti, jailed in the assassination of a motorcycle driver with alleged gang ties, has been freed from a Port-au-Prince jail along with a senior police inspector and…
KINGSTON (AP) — Five people were fatally shot while playing dominoes in Jamaica, marking the latest mass shooting on this Caribbean island. Local media reported that the shooting late Monday occurred in the southeastern parish…
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump declared a win on stopping illegal immigration through Mexico on Wednesday after talking with that country’s leader. But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Mexico was already…