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McCarthy fails for third long day in GOP House Speaker fight

Published:Friday | January 6, 2023 | 1:37 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): For a long and frustrating third day, divided Republicans left the Speaker’s chair of the US House sitting empty Thursday, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed and failed again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough...

Beds run out at hospital as COVID-19 spreads

Published:Friday | January 6, 2023 | 1:28 AM

BEIJING (AP): Mostly older men and women wearing masks rested on cots in hallways, while others slept upright in crowded waiting rooms with numbered chairs. Many received fluids intravenously, while others were given oxygen. The sound of people...

Putin orders weekend truce; Kyiv won’t take part

Published:Friday | January 6, 2023 | 1:22 AM

KYIV (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered his armed forces to observe a unilateral 36-hour ceasefire in Ukraine this weekend for the Orthodox Christmas holiday, the first such sweeping truce move in the nearly 11-month-old war...

Rotarians help to welcome Westmoreland’s first born for 2023

Published:Friday | January 6, 2023 | 1:08 AMAlbert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer

Western Bureau: Rotarians joined in the celebration to welcome Rajay Hessing, the first baby born at the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital in Westmoreland on New Year’s Day, Sunday, January 1. At exactly 1:50 am, health-care workers delivered...

Int’l foundation to support NCU’s expansion

Published:Friday | January 6, 2023 | 12:31 AM

The Northern Caribbean University (NCU) International Development Foundation has embarked on a massive fundraising campaign to culminate in its official launch in August 2023. The foundation’s goal is to raise US$10 million at the time of the...

EU urges pre-flight COVID-19 tests on passengers from China

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 5:11 PM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has “strongly encouraged” its member states to impose pre-departure COVID-19 testing of passengers from China, in a move that is likely to upset Beijing and has already been criticised by the...

UK gov't urges unions to end strikes, vows to curb walkouts

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 4:01 PM

LONDON (AP) — The British government on Thursday dangled the prospect of public-sector pay hikes next year in an attempt to end strikes by nurses and ambulance staff that have piled pressure on an already overburdened health system. The...

Biden toughens border, offers legal path for 30,000 a month

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 3:55 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday the United States would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally, his boldest move yet to confront the arrivals of migrants...

US removes Cuban migrants from remote Florida islands

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 3:39 PM

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The Coast Guard removed more than 300 Cuban migrants from a remote island national park off the Florida coast Thursday as the United States government sought to handle the latest influx of people arriving by boat from...

Woman charged with repeatedly poisoning husband

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 1:27 PM

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — A Wisconsin woman accused of repeatedly poisoning her veterinarian husband with animal euthanasia drugs has been charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide. Amanda Chapin, 50, of Monroe, was charged...

Eight found fatally shot in Utah home, including five children

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 12:39 PM

ENOCH, Utah (AP) — A southern Utah community was struggling for answers on Thursday after police found eight people from one family, including five children, shot to death in the small town of Enoch. Police sent officers to check on them on...

Faithful mourn Benedict XVI at funeral presided over by pope

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 7:57 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP) — With bells tolling, tens of thousands of faithful, political leaders and the pope himself mourned Benedict XVI, the German theologian who made history by resigning the papacy, at a rare requiem Mass Thursday for a...

Beds run out at Beijing hospital as COVID-19 spreads

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 7:47 AM

BEIJING (AP) — Patients, mostly older people, laid on stretchers in hallways or took oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as a COVID-19 outbreak stretched public health facilities' resources in China's capital Beijing, even after its...

McCarthy rejected for House Speaker with GOP in disarray

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 1:07 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): House Republicans flailed through a second day of multiple balloting Wednesday, unable to elect their leader Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker or come up with a new strategy to end the political chaos that has tarnished the start of...

Rockets hit US base in eastern Syria, no casualties reported

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 1:07 AM

BEIRUT (AP): Two rockets struck a base housing American troops in eastern Syria on Wednesday without causing any human or material losses, the US military said. The morning attack on Mission Support Site Conoco came as Iran and its allies in the...

WHO worried about surge of COVID in China amid lack of info

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 1:05 AM

GENEVA (AP): The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday the agency is “concerned about the risk to life in China” amid the coronavirus’ explosive spread across the country and the lack of outbreak data from the Chinese...

Cuban migrants flow into Florida Keys, overwhelm officials

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 1:03 AM

KEY LARGO (AP): More than 500 Cuban immigrants have come ashore in the Florida Keys since the weekend, the latest in a large and increasing number who are fleeing the communist island and stretching thin US border agencies both on land and at sea....

Haiti rocked by four earthquakes

Published:Thursday | January 5, 2023 | 12:58 AM

PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): Haiti has been rocked by four earthquakes within five hour period on Wednesday, but Civil Protection Directorate (DPC) reported that there was no loss of life or damage. It said that the first quake occurred at 7.31 a.m. local...

College scam mastermind Rick Singer gets 3.5 years in prison

Published:Wednesday | January 4, 2023 | 8:18 PM

BOSTON (AP) — The mastermind of the nationwide college admissions bribery scheme that ensnared celebrities, prominent businesspeople and other parents who used their wealth and privilege to buy their children's way into top-tier...

Cuban migrants flow into Florida Keys, overwhelm officials

Published:Wednesday | January 4, 2023 | 5:52 PM

KEY LARGO, Florida (AP) — More than 500 Cuban immigrants have come ashore in the Florida Keys since the weekend, the latest in a large and increasing number who are fleeing the communist island and stretching thin US border agencies...

McCarthy rejected for House speaker with GOP in disarray

Published:Wednesday | January 4, 2023 | 4:30 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans flailed through a second day of multiple balloting Wednesday, unable to elect their leader Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or come up with a new strategy to end the political chaos that has...

WHO worried about surge of COVID in China amid lack of info

Published:Wednesday | January 4, 2023 | 2:46 PM

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday the agency is “concerned about the risk to life in China” amid the coronavirus' explosive spread across the country and the lack of outbreak data from the...

FDA finalises rule expanding availability of abortion pills

Published:Wednesday | January 4, 2023 | 2:25 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday finalised a rule change that broadens the availability of abortion pills to many more pharmacies, including large chains and mail-order companies. The Biden administration...

California seeks sterilisation victims to pay reparations

Published:Wednesday | January 4, 2023 | 11:46 AM

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — About 600 people alive today can't have children because California's government sterilised them either against their will or without their knowledge, and now the state is trying to find them so it...

Philippines seeks to cleanse police force of drug ties

Published:Wednesday | January 4, 2023 | 11:22 AM

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines' interior secretary announced Wednesday he has asked all police generals and full colonels to submit their courtesy resignation to clean the ranks of ties to illegal drugs. Around 300 officers...

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