Moderna on Thursday asked United States regulators to authorise low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 6, a long-awaited move toward potentially opening shots for millions of tots by summer. Frustrated families are waiting...
MEXICO CITY (AP): At least eight people were killed and 11 injured when competing groups of workers clashed at a cement plant before dawn on Wednesday in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, authorities said. The deadly clash to control the cement...
HAVANA (CMC): Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit was awarded the Order of José Marti on Tuesday night, noting that the Cuban revolution is no longer one of guns but one of ideas, “which seeks to elevate the dominant principle of our world...
POKROVSK (AP): Russia cut off natural gas to NATO members Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday and threatened to do the same to other countries, dramatically escalating its stand-off with the West over the war in Ukraine. European leaders decried the...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's government has announced plans to drastically reduce flights at Warsaw's two airports starting Sunday if talks with air traffic controllers demanding better working conditions fail. Regulations published...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia and the United States have carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange, trading a Marine veteran jailed by Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America, both countries...
BOSTON (AP): Harvard University is vowing to spend US$100 million to research and atone for its extensive ties with slavery, the school’s president announced Tuesday, with plans to identify and support the descendants of enslaved people who...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Grenada police have confirmed that at least one person died when a Coast Guard vessel collided with a small fishing boat at Grand Anse along the southwestern coast of the island. In a statement, the police said that the accident...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): The State University of Haiti (UEH) has condemned the murder of a fifth-year medical student, saying that Haiti and the university “are tired of counting corpses in their ranks”. Police said that 27-year-old Osny Zidor, a...
PARAMAIRBO (CMC): President of the Suriname Seafood Association (SSA), Udo Karg, says he is against government providing licences to Guyanese fishermen amid complaints of overfishing. Over the last weekend, President Chandrikapersad Santokhi told...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland and Bulgaria said Tuesday that Russia is suspending their countries' natural gas deliveries after they refused to pay for their supplies in Russian rubles. The governments of the two European...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is taking steps to expand the availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, seeking to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, the White House announced, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus even as the US eases restrictions in a bid to return to pre-...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Supreme Court struck down on Monday a 2021 law that would have required cell phone companies to collect biometric data like fingerprints or eye scans from customers. The court ruled the law was too invasive of...
ISTANBUL (AP) — For months, Istanbul restaurant Tarihi Balikca tried to absorb the surging cost of the sunflower oil its cooks use to fry fish, squid and mussels. But in early April, with oil prices nearly four times higher than they were in...
ROSEAU (CMC): Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit left here on Monday at the head of a five-member delegation for an official visit to Cuba. Skerrit will receive the Order of Jose Marti, named after the Cuban national hero who became the symbol of...
KYIV (AP): Russia unleashed a string of attacks Monday against rail and fuel installations deep inside Ukraine, far from the front lines of Moscow’s new eastern offensive, in a bid to thwart Ukrainian efforts to marshal supplies for the fight. The...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): North Korea began a much-anticipated military parade in its capital on Monday to mark the 90th anniversary of its army’s founding, with outside experts saying it was likely to display powerful missiles and other weapons...
PARIS (AP): After winning another five years in the French presidential palace, Emmanuel Macron intends to go back to work straightaway on domestic and foreign policy — but he will soon face crucial parliamentary elections, where he may struggle to...
NEW YORK (AP) — Several dozen New York City teachers and other school employees who officials said submitted fraudulent proof of COVID-19 vaccination were placed on leave as of Monday. The United Federation of Teachers is challenging the...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge found former President Donald Trump in contempt of court and set in motion $10,000 daily fines Monday for failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued by the state's attorney general as part of a...
Billionaire Elon Musk has reached an agreement to acquire Twitter for approximately $44 billion, the company said. The outspoken Tesla CEO, the world's wealthiest person, has said he wants to buy Twitter because he thinks it's not living up...
BEIJING (AP) — Beijing will conduct mass testing of most of its 21 million people, authorities announced Monday, as a new COVID-19 outbreak sparked stockpiling of food by residents worried about the possibility of a Shanghai-style lockdown....
Twitter's board is negotiating with CEO Elon Musk over his bid to buy the social media platform and a deal could be announced as early as Monday, according to media reports. Twitter and Musk negotiated into the early hours Monday over his bid...
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron comfortably won a second term Sunday, triggering relief among allies that the nuclear-armed power won't abruptly shift course in the midst of the war in Ukraine from European Union and NATO...
