WANICA - A 21-year-old woman, MK, was arrested Tuesday after she was charged with embezzlement...
PARAMARIBO – The historic center of Paramaribo will transform into one big open air stage for Fête de la Musique 2026. The international music festival that is celebrated in more than 120 countries will bring...
US - US President Donald Trump celebrated his 80th and America's 250th birthday with an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event on the White House lawn.
BRAZIL - The alt-pop US musician and internet personality Oliver Tree was among six people who died when the helicopter he was travelling in collided with another in Brazil.
SEOUL - North Korea said Sunday its status as a nuclear weapons state was "irreversible" and key to ensuring regional stability, rejecting calls by the United States and its allies for denuclearisation.
SOMALI - Somali referee Omar Artan, who was denied entry to the United States to officiate at the World Cup, will still receive his full tournament fee. Artan was interrogated for eleven...
CARACAS - The Tren de Aragua leader killed in a US-Venezuelan raid was a high school dropout who lived in comfort behind bars as he transformed a prison gang into one of the
NIGERIA - A suspected attack by the Lakurawa jihadist group in Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria, has left over 20 people dead, according to a confidential UN security report.
MEXICO CITY - A mayor was shot dead in an area of southern Mexico where drug cartels are battling to control trafficking routes, local authorities said Saturday.
FRANCE - Royal Marine Commandos have boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the English Channel on Sunday morning. Marines, joined by National Crime Agency officers,...
VS - President Donald Trump has said a deal to end fighting between the US and Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday, after Iran cast doubt on the timing.
US - Donald Trump celebrates his 80th birthday in typically forceful style on Sunday, as the oldest US president ever to take office holds a bloody cage match on the White House lawn.
INDIA - A Russian-made Indian military transport plane crashed on Saturday while landing at an air force station in the...
IRAN - Iran's former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for nearly 37 years before being killed by Israeli and US airstrikes on February 28,...
NIGERIA - Gunmen killed 17 farmers in northwestern Nigeria on Friday in the latest violence against agriculturalists since...
SWITZERLAND - Can a country put a fixed limit on its population? That is the question Switzerland will be answering on Sunday...
PARAMARIBO – Several police officers were recently questioned as part of the investigation into the theft of mercury that had been stored in a shipping container that...
PARAMARIBO - The management team at the Academic Hospital Paramaribo (AZP) recently denied that the nation’s biggest...
IRAN - Israel has carried out air strikes in the south of Lebanon after ordering people to leave about 20 locations, Lebanese state media has said.
CANADA - Ghana's government has called for a review of what it describes as a ‘high-handed and extremely unfair’ decision by Canada to ban midfielder Thomas Partey from entering the country.
CARACAS - Venezuela on Thursday granted British oil giant Shell a license to explore and export natural gas, as it joins the ranks...
US - SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket loaded with Starlink satellites Friday less than an hour before Elon Musk's company lifts off for the largest IPO in history on Wall Street.
INDONESIA - Hundreds of students took to the streets of Indonesia's capital on Friday to protest government policies they said could "bankrupt" the country.
US - SpaceX has raised $75bn (£56bn) from financial firms ahead of becoming a publicly traded company on Friday, in what is expected to be the highest-value stock...
PARAMARIBO – The French ambassador to Suriname, Nicolas de Lacoste, recently explained at the National Education Congress that the French army has developed special programs...
PARAMARIBO – Foreign Affairs, International Trade and International Collaboration (BIS) Minister Melvin Bouva recently made it clear that Xaviera Jessurun worked...
BOGOTÁ - Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the United States of trampling his freedom by preventing him from meeting New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani,...
IRAN - Iran reaffirmed its right to enrich uranium and maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz under any potential deal with the US, following President Trump's claim...
NIGERIA - Nigeria has become the latest African state to repatriate some of its citizens from South Africa following a rise in anti-migrant sentiments in the country.
RUSSIA - The Kremlin called on the United States and Iran Thursday to restart peace talks and said the new strikes in their war would be bad for the world economy.
MEXICO - Five Mexican police officers were shot dead and five others wounded Wednesday in violence-hit Michoacan state on the eve of the World Cup opener in Mexico City,...
US - Three Indian sailors have been confirmed killed after the US military struck a tanker in the Gulf of Oman which it accused of violating its blockade on Iranian ports.
MEERZORG – Police officers from the Meerzorg Police Station recently arrested a man who is the prime suspect in a hit-and-run case.
IRAN - US President Donald Trump says the US will hit Iran "very hard" tonight. In a post on Truth Social, he also vows to "assume total control" of Iran's oil and gas markets and to take Kharg Island,...
US - El Niño, the natural Pacific weather pattern that pushes up global temperatures, has officially begun, US scientists say.
WASHINGTON - US president Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Iran has taken too long to negotiate a deal over the conflict in the Middle East and will now "have to pay the price".
PARAMARIBO – Traffic safety does not start at the primary school but in kindergarten. This is the message that the Traffic Safety Institute (VVI)...
INDIA - The father of one of the pilots killed in last year's Air India plane crash has said he will continue to defend his son's reputation, days before investigators are expected to release an update on their findings.
WEST-AFRIKA - The collapse of an informal gold mine in Guinea has killed at least 11 people and left others missing, rescue workers and local sources told AFP on Tuesday.
BEIJING /PARAMARIBO - The first edition of the ‘Caribbean Ball - The Caribbean Experience’, an initiative of the Caribbean Caucus of Embassies in Beijing was held in...
DUBAI - Qatari negotiators travelled to Tehran to address remaining differences between the US and Iran, a diplomat told AFP on Wednesday, as talks between the warring sides appeared stalled.
