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Cases of COVID-19 BA.5 subvariant increasing rapidly

Published:Friday | July 22, 2022 | 12:07 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): The Omicron BA.5 subvariant, discovered here just over a week ago, is responsible for a rapid increase in COVID-19 infections, Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram disclosed on Wednesday. He said at a Ministry of...

EU imposes more sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine invasion

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2022 | 5:26 PM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union imposed more sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine on Thursday after the bloc's 27 members backed measures that include a ban on gold imports, more restrictions on the country's...

WHO moves to roll out first malaria vaccine in Africa

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2022 | 2:27 PM

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — As the World Health Organization announces the next step in its rollout of the world's first authorised malaria vaccine in three African countries, concerns about its value have come from an unlikely source: the...

US House OKs bill to protect contraception from Supreme Court

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2022 | 2:22 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The right to use contraceptives would be enshrined in law under a measure that Democrats pushed through the House on Thursday, their latest campaign-season response to concerns a conservative Supreme Court that already...

WHO again considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2022 | 10:22 AM

LONDON (AP) — As the World Health Organization's emergency committee convened Thursday to consider for the second time within weeks whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis, some scientists said the striking differences...

Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19, has ‘mild symptoms’

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2022 | 9:39 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus as new variants challenge the nation's efforts to resume normalcy after two and a half years of...

Italy’s Premier Mario Draghi resigns, spelling trouble for nation and Europe

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2022 | 8:20 AM

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi resigned Thursday after his ruling coalition fell apart, dealing a destabilising blow to the country and Europe at a time of severe economic uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and...

Three weeks of protests in Panama cause food, fuel shortages

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2022 | 5:20 PM

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Three weeks of continuous demonstrations and road blockades to protest high fuel and food costs in Panama have begun to cause shortages of some food products, fuel and medicine. The closures, including of the Pan-American...

UK weather turmoil spurs calls to adapt to climate change

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2022 | 1:15 PM

LONDON (AP) — Britain's record-breaking heatwave has spurred calls for the government to speed up efforts to adapt to a changing climate, especially after wildfires created the busiest day for London firefighters since bombs rained down...

Unpopular Sri Lankan PM elected president, risks new turmoil

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2022 | 8:56 AM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers elected the unpopular prime minister as their new president Wednesday, a choice that risked reigniting turmoil in the South Asian nation reeling from economic collapse. The crisis has...

Man shot dead while working at ‘Law & Order’ film location in NY

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2022 | 8:46 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man working at a filming location for the TV series “Law & Order: Organized Crime” was shot and killed early Tuesday before filming was scheduled to start for the day. According to police, Johnny...

EU draws up energy plan in case of Russian gas cutoff

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2022 | 8:10 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's head office on Wednesday proposed that member states cut their gas use by 15% over the coming months as the bloc braced for a possible full Russian cutoff of natural gas supplies that could add a big...

UK breaks record for highest temperature as Europe sizzles

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2022 | 12:12 AM

LONDON (AP): Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, as the UK’s national weather forecaster said such highs are now a fact of life in a country ill-prepared...

UN decries rising death toll, rights violations

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2022 | 12:11 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): The UN human rights office on Saturday expressed concern about rising violence around Haiti’s capital, saying 99 people have been reported killed in recent fighting between rival gangs in the Cite Soleil district alone. The...

UK buys more vaccines for monkeypox as cases top 2,100

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2022 | 4:56 PM

LONDON (AP) — British has bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130, the majority of them in London, officials said Tuesday. Britain's Health...

Japan extends detention for Shinzo Abe’s alleged assassin

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2022 | 2:48 PM

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese authorities have obtained court approval to extend the detention of the suspect in former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination earlier this month for 10 more days until they file formal charges. Abe, one of...

Lawsuit: UK officials had concerns with Rwanda deportations

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2022 | 1:04 PM

LONDON (AP) — Officials at Britain's Foreign Office warned against the United Kingdom's plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, citing the East African country's human rights record, according to documents cited in a...

Judge sets October trial for Musk-Twitter takeover dispute

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2022 | 12:13 PM

Elon Musk lost a fight to delay Twitter's lawsuit against him as a Delaware judge on Tuesday set an October trial, citing the “cloud of uncertainty” over the social media company after the billionaire-backed out of a deal to buy it...

Sri Lanka lawmakers to pick new president

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2022 | 10:38 AM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's prime minister and acting president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, will face two rivals in a parliamentary vote Wednesday on who will succeed the ousted leader who fled the country last week amid...

UK breaks record for highest temperature as Europe sizzles

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2022 | 8:59 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain shattered its record for the highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe — and the national weather forecaster predicted it would get hotter still in a country...

Rowley declares crime a public health issue

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2022 | 12:12 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will meet in Barbados to discuss the crime situation in the region, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said on Monday as his administration warned that the “dramatic escalation in violent...

Europe broils in heat wave that fuels fires

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2022 | 12:12 AM

LA TESTE-DE-BUCH (AP): A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northwards Monday to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames in...

Gunfire, shootings and panic mar weekend

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2022 | 12:12 AM

(AP): A man firing a rifle killed shoppers at an Indiana mall’s food court. A gunfight at a Houston home killed four people. A stand-up act by the comedian Craig Robinson in North Carolina didn’t even begin before club goers fled from a man with a...

European leaders ink energy deals in bid to sidestep Russia

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2022 | 12:11 AM

ROME (AP): European leaders ramped up their push to secure alternative energy supplies on Monday as fears escalate of a complete natural gas cut-off by Russia, with the leaders of Italy, France and the European Union sealing deals with their...

China floods leave at least 12 dead, thousands evacuated

Published:Sunday | July 17, 2022 | 6:23 PM

BEIJING (AP) — Flash floods in southwest and northwest China have left at least a dozen dead and put thousands of others in harm's way, state media reported Sunday. In the southwestern province of Sichuan, at least six people have died...

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