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Displaced girls sit at a school converted into a temporary shelter for displaced residents in residents in Bidur, in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, on Tuesday, September 1.
September 2, 2026

Mass burials as death toll from flash floods exceeds 1,000

KATHMANDU (AP): Rescue teams with search dogs continued to search through mud, rocks and debris yesterday on the border with Nepal and China for thousands of people still missing following the…
From left: French conservative Party Les Republicains Bruno Retailleau, co-president of French centre-left party, Place Publique Raphael Glucksmann, far-right leader Marine Le Pen, former French Prime Minister and head of Horizons political party Edouard P
September 2, 2026

Election campaign to replace Macron heats up

PARIS (AP): With the end of France’s summer vacation season, the election campaign to replace Emmanuel Macron as president next May is bursting to life. An unusually large and broad field of…
FILE - New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during the annual New York State Financial Control Board meeting, Aug. 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
September 2, 2026

NYC, largest school system in US, bans AI for students through 8th grade

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s public schools will temporarily ban elementary and middle school students from using artificial intelligence tools during the upcoming school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani…
Tiger Woods appears in County Judge Darren Steele's courtroom for a plea hearing from an arrest in March, at the Martin County Courthouse in Stuart, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Crystal Vander Weit/Treasure Coast Newspapers via AP, Pool)
September 3, 2026

Tiger Woods pleads no contest to reckless driving charge over rollover crash in Florida

STUART, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge and his driver’s licence was suspended for five years on Wednesday following a March rollover crash in Florida, where he…
Nepal Army soldiers carry a body of a worker recovered from the site of a hydropower project in Upper Trishuli, Nepal, on Tuesday. - AP photo
September 1, 2026

Mass burials in Nepal as death toll from flash floods exceeds 1,000

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Rescue teams with search dogs continued to search through mud, rocks and debris on Tuesday on the border with Nepal and China for thousands of people still missing following…
Apple's new CEO John Ternus
September 1, 2026

Apple's new CEO, John Ternus, takes over from Tim Cook after 15 years

AP – Apple's new CEO John Ternus takes the helm of the iconic tech giant on Tuesday, ending Tim Cook's 15-year tenure during which the company's value skyrocket to $4.6 trillion thanks…
St Lucia’s Foreign Affairs, International Trade, Civil Aviation and Diaspora Affairs Minister, Alva Baptiste.
September 1, 2026

First group under US TCN programme arrives this week

CASTRIES (CMC): The St Lucian government says the first group of people being transferred to the island under a bilateral agreement with the United States will arrive later this week. Alva Baptiste,…
St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew
September 1, 2026

PM hospitalised, to receive care abroad

BASSETERRE (CMC): Prime Minister Terrance Drew of St Kitts and Nevis is to be flown overseas for further medical observation after being admitted to the Joseph N. France (JNF) General Hospital on…
People stand on remnants of a bridge that spanned across the Trishuli River and was washed away in flash floods in Dhading District, Nepal, on Sunday.
September 1, 2026

Hundreds feared stuck in hydropower tunnels

KATHMANDU (AP): Rescuers raced yesterday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border as…