April 1 (Reuters) – Voters will head to the polls in the Bahamas for an early election on May 12, the prime minister said on Wednesday, as the Caribbean nation battles affordability issues. The announcement came the day the government scrapped a value-added tax on unprepared grocery items to help ease a cost of living …
NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged in the 2024 shooting death of a New York City police officer has been convicted of aggravated manslaughter but acquitted of murder. A Queens jury delivered its verdict Wednesday evening — after coming close earlier in the day — in the case of Guy Rivera, who was charged …
SEOUL, April 2 (Reuters) – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday urged parliament to promptly pass a 26.2 trillion won ($17.3 billion) supplementary budget to shore up the economy amid “the worst energy security threat” posed by the Middle East crisis. “Even if the war ends tomorrow, it will take a considerable period …
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand and Cook Islands signed a defense and security pact Thursday, easing more than a year of tension between the Pacific nations over Cook Islands’ deepening ties with China. The fraught diplomatic standoff that prompted Wellington to pause millions of dollars in aid to Avarua was hardly a clash …
By Alexander Dziadosz, Aaron McNicholas and Vinaya K CAIRO, April 2 (Reuters) – Eastern Libya’s military leader, Khalifa Haftar, has acquired what appear to be Chinese and Turkish combat drones, Reuters reporting has found, despite a long-standing U.N. embargo on supplying weapons to the divided North African country. Commercial satellite images show at least three …
Ottawa, April 1 – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday that he and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed developments in the Middle East conflict. (Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
MIAMI (AP) — The Boston Celtics had a first quarter like none other in their storied history. Boston’s barrage is now tied for the second-highest-scoring first quarter in NBA regular-season history. Golden State had a 55-point opening quarter at Portland on April 9, 2023, and Miami had a 53-point opening quarter against Charlotte on Nov. …
The Afghan man had fled the Taliban for refuge in upstate New York when U.S. immigration authorities ordered him deported to Uganda. The Cuban woman was working at a Texas Chick-fil-A when she arrested after a minor traffic accident and told she was being sent to Ecuador. There’s the Mauritanian man living in Michigan told …
HONOLULU (AP) — Kaʻiulani Murphy is quick to spot white terns flapping their wings when she’s guiding Polynesian voyaging canoes across the Pacific. The birds hunt for food at sea and lay eggs on land. So traditional navigators like her, who look to the stars, waves and other elements in nature to pilot across the …
April 2 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s parliament will hold a bicameral vote to elect a president on Friday, house speaker Aung Lin Dwe said on Thursday, with the country’s former military chief and junta leader Min Aung Hlaing in the running for the position. The 69-year-old general, who led a 2021 coup that ousted the democratically …