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Russian sentenced to life in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 10:53 AM

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian soldier who pleaded guilty to killing a Ukrainian civilian was sentenced to life in prison on Monday in the first war crimes trial since Moscow invaded three months ago, unleashing a brutal conflict ...

Pfizer says three COVID shots protect children under 5

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 10:34 AM

Three doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday. Pfizer plans to give the data to United States regulators later this week in a step toward letting the littlest kids get...

78,000lbs of baby formula shipped

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 12:07 AM

INDIANAPOLIS (AP): A military plane carrying enough speciality infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis, the first of several flights expected from Europe aimed at relieving a shortage that has sent...

Albanese elected leader in complex poll result

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 12:07 AM

SYDNEY (AP): Australians awoke on Sunday to a new prime minister in Anthony Albanese, the centre-left Labour Party leader whose ascension to the nation’s top job from being raised in social housing by a single mother on a disability pension was...

Taliban enforcing face-cover order for female TV anchors

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 12:07 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP): Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Sunday began enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air. The move is part of a hard-line shift, drawing condemnation from rights activists...

Coast Guard repatriates 43 migrants to Cuba

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 12:07 AM

MIAMI (CMC): The United States Coast Guard says the crew of its cutter Bernard Webber crew on Saturday repatriated 43 Cuban migrants to their homeland following four interdictions off the Florida Keys. The US Coast Guard said an Air Station...

COVID-19 test bar lifted for vaccinated travellers to Barbados

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 12:07 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The government of Barbados has announced that effective Wednesday, May 25, vaccinated travellers to the island will no longer be required to present a negative COVID-19 test for entry. During a press conference on Saturday, Prime...

Haitian gangs strangle capital as deaths, kidnappings soar

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 12:06 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): It was about 6 a.m. when Venique Moïse flung open the door of her house and saw dozens of people running – their children in one hand and scant belongings in the other – as gunfire intensified. Minutes later, she joined the...

Indonesia lifts ban on cooking oil export as supply improves

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 4:54 PM

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia said Thursday it will lift a monthlong ban on palm oil export, citing improvements in the supply and domestic price of bulk cooking oil. President Joko Widodo said exports will resume on Monday. Indonesia...

Parts of Spain on alert amid ‘extreme’ May temperatures

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 3:16 PM

MADRID (AP) — Large parts of Spain were under alert Friday as a wave of intense heat began sweeping across the country, leaving residents sweltering through May temperatures that rank among the hottest in two decades. A mass of hot, dry air...

Trump pays $110K fine, must submit paperwork to end contempt

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 3:10 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York's attorney general. Trump paid the fine...

CDC urges Pfizer booster for children ages 5 to 11

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 9:44 AM

Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the United States government said Thursday. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention quickly adopted the panel's recommendation, opening a third...

Sri Lanka closes schools, limits work amid fuel shortage

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 9:39 AM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan authorities closed schools and asked public officials not to come to work in a desperate move to prepare for an acute fuel shortage that is expected to last days amid the nation's worst economic crisis...

African scientists baffled by monkeypox cases in Europe, US

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 9:10 AM

LONDON (AP) — Scientists who have monitored numerous outbreaks of monkeypox in Africa say they are baffled by the disease's recent spread in Europe and North America. Cases of the smallpox-related disease have previously been...

Shanghai to reopen subways in easing of COVID lockdown

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:12 AM

BEIJING (AP): The locked-down Chinese metropolis of Shanghai will reopen four of its 20 subway lines Sunday as it slowly eases pandemic restrictions that have kept most residents in their housing complexes for more than six weeks. The city will...

Tea and infomercials: North Korea fights COVID with few tools

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:12 AM

SEOUL (AP): ON A recent nighttime visit to a drugstore, a double-masked Kim Jong Un lamented the slow delivery of medicine. Separately, the North Korean leader’s lieutenants have quarantined hundreds of thousands of suspected COVID-19 patients and...

Ukrainian troops surrendering at Mariupol registered as POWs

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:12 AM

KYIV (AP): The fate of hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who surrendered after holding out against punishing attacks on Mariupol’s steel factory hung in the balance Thursday amid international fears that the Russians may take reprisals against the...

Captive medic’s bodycam shows first-hand horror of Mariupol

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:11 AM

KHARKIV (AP): A celebrated Ukrainian medic recorded her time in Mariupol on a data card no bigger than a thumbnail, smuggled out to the world in a tampon. Now she is in Russian hands, at a time when Mariupol itself is on the verge of falling....

UN warns war in Ukraine adds to hunger woes

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 5:04 PM

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations food chief is warning that the war in Ukraine has created “an unprecedented crisis” of escalating food prices that has sparked protests. World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said...

Grand jury indicts man in Buffalo supermarket shooting

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 3:01 PM

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man accused of killing 10 black people at a supermarket in Buffalo appeared in court Thursday, standing silently during a brief proceeding attended by some relatives of the victims after a grand jury indicted...

UK police conclude probe into Johnson’s ‘partygate’ scandal

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 9:58 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain's Metropolitan Police says it has concluded its investigation into breaches of COVID-19 regulations at British government offices, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official residence, and has issued a...

Spirit tells shareholders to reject hostile bid from JetBlue

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 9:51 AM

Spirit Airlines is advising shareholders to reject a tender offer for shares from JetBlue three days after it went hostile in its bid to create what would be the nation's fifth-largest airline. Spirit repeated Thursday that any attempt to merge...

US to ease a few economic sanctions against Venezuela

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 9:43 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The United States government is moving to ease a few economic sanctions on Venezuela in a gesture meant to encourage resumed negotiations between the US-backed opposition and the government of President Nicolá...

NATO talks with Finland, Sweden falter but will continue

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 12:08 AM

BRUSSELS (AP): NATO envoys failed to reach a consensus Wednesday on whether to start membership talks with Finland and Sweden, diplomats said, as Turkey renewed its objections to the two Nordic countries joining. The envoys met at NATO’s...

EU rushes out US$300-billion road map to ditch Russian energy

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 12:08 AM

BRUSSELS (AP): The European Union’s (EU) executive arm moved on Wednesday to jump-start plans for the 27-nation bloc to abandon Russian energy amid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, proposing a nearly 300-billion euro (US$315-billion) package that...

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