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Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East: - Turkey says missile from Iran destroyed - A ballistic missile launched from Iran and heading towards Turkish airspace via Iraq and Syria was destroyed by NATO air defence systems, Turkish officials said. The defence ministry did not specify the missile's intended target. Iran has been hitting sites across the region in retaliation after the United...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé has named a new 17-member cabinet, noting that the “time for fine speeches is over. Today is the time for action”. Fils-Aimé, who remains confident that presidential and national elections will take place by year's end, thanked the outgoing administration for their commitment and dedication in a particularly challenging crisis. Elections were last held in the French-speaking Caribbean...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Manchester City stumbled in the Premier League title race on Wednesday, held to a costly 2-2 draw by Nottingham Forest as Bukayo Saka's goal against Brighton sent Arsenal seven points clear. The Gunners are favourites to win their first English league crown since 2004 but have found it impossible to shake off the attentions of Pep Guardiola's charging City. The two teams will go head...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Wednesday, March 4, ended trading at $157.32, up 12 cents according to Bank of Jamaica’s daily exchange trading summary. Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar ended trading at $115.56 up from $114.46 and the British pound at $211.00 up from $209.01.

  KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister, Dr Andrew Holness, has announced that the country has officially entered the reconstruction phase of the Hurricane Melissa disaster response. Holness noted that this transition was supported by the near-completion of utility restoration, a rebounding agricultural sector, and lower-than-expected inflation. “For electricity, I can say that we are 98 per cent recovered [and] for water, we are 97 per cent restored. Agricultural output has...

In the eyes of bereaved family members and friends of Melissa Silvera, the assertion that her voice somehow provoked the violence that ended her life is an insult layered upon grief. Gathering at the entrance of Emancipation Park in St Andrew on Tuesday evening, they chanted loudly, “Provocation is no justification,” insisting that her death must be recognised as murder. “It doesn’t matter what they want to call it; manslaughter?...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Suspected widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) to select targets and launch attacks on Iran raises many questions, and fears that human control of war machinery could be slipping, a leading expert said Wednesday. The United States (US) and Israel have carried out thousands of strikes across Iran since launching their offensive, including one that killed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday on the...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Suspected widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) to select targets and launch attacks on Iran raises many questions, and fears that human control of war machinery could be slipping, a leading expert said Wednesday. The United States (US) and Israel have carried out thousands of strikes across Iran since launching their offensive, including one that killed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday on the...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Guyana's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC, says Guyanese-born, Ronley Floyd Bynoe, has been extradited to the United States on various fraud related charges dating back to 2023. The DPP said that Bynoe, was taken from the Georgetown Camp Street Prison where he was held on remand and escorted under security to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) where he was handed over to...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — There will never be another Hurricane Melissa as the World Meteorological Organization’s Hurricane Committee has retired ‘Melissa’ from its rotating list of names used each hurricane season. It is practice for the names of deadly hurricanes to be retired from the list, the WMO noted in a press release on Wednesday, citing the death and destruction the hurricane caused in the Caribbean in October 2025. The storm,...

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — A grid failure knocked out power to two-thirds of Cuba, including Havana, on Wednesday, the national electric company UNE said. The issue stemmed from an "unexpected" breakdown at the Antonio Guiteras power plant, one of the island's largest, the utility said, adding that the centre and west of the island were affected. Cuba's electricity generation system is in shambles. Daily power outages of up to 20...