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Former BVI premier sends notice of absence to legislature

Published:Sunday | July 3, 2022 | 12:07 AM

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (CMC): The former premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Andrew Fahie, has officially sent word to the legislature of this British overseas territory informing them of his absence from the latest sitting. Since...

With COVID-19 hospitalisations up, France weighs return to masks

Published:Sunday | July 3, 2022 | 12:07 AM

NICE, France (AP): Tourism is booming again in France – and so is COVID-19. French officials have "invited" or "recommended" people to go back to using face masks, but stopped short of renewing restrictions that would scare visitors away or revive...

UN condemns protesters' storming of Libya's parliament

Published:Sunday | July 3, 2022 | 12:07 AM

AP: A senior United Nations (UN) official for Libya on Saturday condemned the storming of the parliament's headquarters in the east of the oil-rich country as part of protests in several cities the previous day against the political class and...

Palestinians give bullet that killed journalist to US team

Published:Sunday | July 3, 2022 | 12:07 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): The Palestinian Authority on Saturday said it has given the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to American forensic experts, taking a step toward resolving a stand-off with Israel over the investigation into...

Bodies of 3 missing kids, mom found in US lake

Published:Sunday | July 3, 2022 | 12:07 AM

VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minnesota (AP): The bodies of three young children and a woman believed to be their mother have been recovered from a Minnesota lake, and authorities say the deaths are being investigated as a triple murder-suicide. Meanwhile, the...

South Africans struggle in the dark to cope with power cuts

Published:Saturday | July 2, 2022 | 6:31 PM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans are struggling in the dark to cope with increased power cuts that have hit households and businesses across the country. The rolling power cuts have been experienced for years but this week the country's...

Protesters storm into parliament building in eastern Libya

Published:Saturday | July 2, 2022 | 12:14 PM

Demonstrators broke into the building that houses the eastern Libya-based parliament in Tobruk on Friday, setting fire to parts of it amid protests over months of failed efforts to set the divided country on a path toward elections. One witness,...

Regulator urges Germans to prepare for possible gas shortage

Published:Saturday | July 2, 2022 | 9:54 AM

BERLIN (AP) — Fearing Russia might cut off natural gas supplies, the head of Germany's regulatory agency for energy called for residents Saturday to save energy and to prepare for winter when use increases. Federal Network Agency...

African officials: Monkeypox spread is already an emergency

Published:Saturday | July 2, 2022 | 12:08 AM

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP): Health authorities in Africa say they are treating the expanding monkeypox outbreak there as an emergency and are calling on rich countries to share the world’s limited supply of vaccines in an effort to avoid the glaring...

French airport workers strike for higher pay amid inflation

Published:Friday | July 1, 2022 | 9:36 AM

PARIS (AP) — Flights from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and other French airports faced disruptions Friday as airport workers held a strike to demand salary hikes to keep up with inflation and an urgent hiring push to deal with resurgent...

Supreme Court: Biden can end Trump-era asylum policy

Published:Friday | July 1, 2022 | 12:10 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The Supreme Court said Thursday the Biden administration can scrap a Trump-era immigration policy that was at the centre of efforts to deter asylum-seekers, forcing some to wait in Mexico. Two conservative justices joined their...

Despair, denial amid search for mall victims

Published:Friday | July 1, 2022 | 12:09 AM

KREMENCHUK (AP): How do you grieve when there is no body to be found? How do you move forward when the person you loved vanished into the dust in a matter of seconds? These are some of the unthinkable questions many in Kremenchuk are now grappling...

Jackson sworn in, becomes first black woman on Supreme Court

Published:Friday | July 1, 2022 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a glass ceiling as the first black woman on the nation’s highest court. The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice, and she took the place of...

California sets nation's toughest plastics reduction rules

Published:Thursday | June 30, 2022 | 10:31 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Companies selling shampoo, food and other products wrapped in plastic have a decade to cut down on their use of the polluting material if they want their wares on California store shelves. Major legislation passed...

Mudslide in India leaves 14 dead, over 30 missing

Published:Thursday | June 30, 2022 | 2:34 PM

GAUHATI, India (AP) — Pounding rain following weeks of heavy downpours triggered a mudslide in northeast India that killed at least 14 people and left more than 30 others missing, authorities said Thursday. Disaster response workers, police...

WHO: COVID-19 cases rising nearly everywhere in the world

Published:Thursday | June 30, 2022 | 11:00 AM

GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases rose by 18% in the last week, with more than 4.1 million cases reported globally, according to the World Health Organization. The United Nations health agency said in its latest weekly report...

Toll now at 53 in San Antonio as families wait for answers

Published:Thursday | June 30, 2022 | 12:10 AM

SAN ANTONIO (AP): In the chaotic minutes after dozens of migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering under the Texas sun, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors, a Mexican immigration official said...

NATO deems Russia its ‘most significant and direct threat’

Published:Thursday | June 30, 2022 | 12:09 AM

MADRID (AP): NATO declared Russia the “most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security on Wednesday and vowed to strengthen support for Ukraine, even as that country’s leader chided the alliance for not doing more to help it...

WHO chief: Abortion ruling ‘a setback,’ will cost lives

Published:Thursday | June 30, 2022 | 12:09 AM

(AP): The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday criticised the US Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v Wade, saying the decision to no longer recognise a constitutional right to abortion was “a setback” that would ultimately cost...

Tropical disturbance shutters schools, businesses

Published:Thursday | June 30, 2022 | 12:09 AM

(AP): The government of Venezuela shuttered schools, opened shelters and restricted air and water transportation on Wednesday as a tropical disturbance sped through the southern Caribbean on a path to Central America. Venezuelan President Nicolás...

WHO chief: US abortion ruling ‘a setback,’ will cost lives

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2022 | 1:16 PM

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday criticised the United States Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, saying the decision to no longer recognise a constitutional right to abortion was “a...

Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2022 | 9:11 AM

MADRID (AP) — Spain's prime minister has defended the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants last week as they tried to cross the shared border into the north African enclave of Melilla, depicting the attempt in which at least...

President: A man threatened my life

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2022 | 12:11 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): President Irfaan Ali Tuesday said that the protest by residents over the alleged release of a police officer linked to the murder of a young man “is not all about justice” and that “a man threatened my life”. Ali in an earlier...

Macron: Russia can’t win after strike on mall

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2022 | 12:10 AM

KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (AP): France’s president denounced Russia’s fiery airstrike on a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine as a “new war crime” Tuesday and vowed the West’s support for Kyiv would not waver, saying Moscow “cannot and should not win” the...

Former aide: Trump wanted armed protesters allowed into the Capitol

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2022 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Cassidy Hutchinson, a key aide in Donald Trump’s White House, told the House committee investigating the violent January 6, 2021 insurrection on Tuesday that Trump was informed that the supporters he addressed that morning had...

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