Johnson & Johnson is pulling baby powder containing talc worldwide next year after it did the same in the United States and Canada amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it had caused cancer. Talc will be replaced by cornstarch, the company said....
NEW YORK (AP): The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person. The United States Centers...
KIGALI (AP): United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday rebuked Rwandan authorities over democracy and human-rights concerns, saying the Central African country may not reach its full potential without opening up political space...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union expressed concern Thursday that a new United States tax credit plan aimed at encouraging Americans to buy electric vehicles would discriminate against European producers and break World Trade Organization...
DALLAS (AP) — Travellers got some welcome news in Wednesday's inflation report from the government: Airfares are coming down, and at a faster clip. The price of the average airline ticket dropped 7.8% in July, to $311, after a 1.8% dip in...
PARIS (AP) — Firefighters were battling a wildfire in southwestern France on Wednesday in a region known for its pine forests that was ravaged by flames last month. The blaze forced the evacuation of about 8,000 people and destroyed at least...
LONDON (AP): As Britain swelters through a roasting summer, and braces for a cold financial reckoning in the fall, calls for the Conservative government to act are getting louder. But the Conservatives are busy choosing a new leader, through a...
NAIROBI (AP): Human-rights groups on Wednesday warned anxious Kenyans over “rising levels of false or misleading information being shared on social media” as the country awaited results of a close presidential election. The electoral commission...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment and wouldn't answer questions under oath in the New York attorney general's long-running civil investigation into his business dealings, the former president...
LONDON (AP) — British health authorities say they will offer a polio booster dose to children aged one to nine in London, after finding evidence the virus has been spreading in multiple regions of the capital, despite not confirming any cases...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's justice minister submitted a proposed constitutional amendment to Parliament on Wednesday that would clip the powers of the president, a key demand of protesters calling for political reforms and...
SAO PAULO (AP) — The World Health Organization expressed sorrow on Tuesday for the killing of monkeys in Brazil amid fears of monkeypox contagion. Brazilian news website G1 reported on Sunday that 10 monkeys had been poisoned in less...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will be questioned under oath Wednesday in the New York attorney general's long-running civil investigation into his dealings as a real estate mogul, he confirmed in a...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MOVE by migrating workers at a hotel construction site in Coopers Pen, Trelawny, to illegally construct makeshift homes and live on lands owned by the National Housing Trust (NHT) has sparked security and health concerns. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James Custos Bishop Conrad Pitkin urged parents and guardians to be vigilant and to shield their children from online paedophiles as a free community Wi-Fi service was being launched in the Rose Heights and Farm Heights areas of...
WESTERN BUREAU: DANIEL DAWES, chief executive officer of the Universal Service Fund (USF), says public Wi-Fi will be installed at the Harmony Beach Park in Montego Bay, St James, at a cost of $30 million. The state-of-the art recreational space,...
MEMBER OF Parliament for St Andrew Western Anthony Hylton has voiced support for plans by the Government to close down the Riverton City dump. Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Friday that the Government was moving to decommission the...
A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and an unpublished...
BEIRUT (AP) — Tarek Younes was once solidly middle class and felt he helped contribute to society as an inspector in the Lebanese government's consumer protection agency. But the country's economic free-fall has eroded his income and...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Some of the heaviest rain in decades swamped South Korea's capital region, turning Seoul's streets into car-clogged rivers and sending floods cascading into subway stations. At least eight people were killed...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Senate President Joseph Lambert says former Senator Yvon Buissereth, who was assassinated over the weekend, had “loved Haiti” and that the French-speaking CARICOM country cannot continue to allow armed gangs and other...
HAVANA (AP): A deadly fire that began at a large oil storage facility in western Cuba spread on Monday after flames enveloped a third tank that firefighters had tried to cool, as they struggle to fight the massive blaze. At least one person has...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said in a lengthy statement today that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe. A person familiar with the matter said the action...
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The white father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery's fatal shooting after they chased the 25-year-old Black man through a Georgia neighborhood were sentenced today to life in prison for committing a...
NEW YORK (AP) — Olivia Newton-John, the Grammy-winning superstar who reigned on pop, country, adult contemporary and dance charts with such hits as "Physical" and "You're the One That I Want" and won countless hearts...
