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Surrogate babies wait out war in basement

Published:Monday | March 21, 2022 | 12:07 AM

KYIV, Ukraine (AP): At a makeshift basement bomb shelter in Ukraine’s capital, at least 20 babies born to surrogate mothers are waiting for their foreign parents to be able to travel to the war-torn country and take them home. Some just a few days...

Zelenskyy evokes Holocaust as he appeals for aid

Published:Monday | March 21, 2022 | 12:07 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): Ukraine’s president on Sunday called on Israel to take a stronger stand against Russia, delivering an emotional appeal that compared Russia’s invasion of his country to the actions of Nazi Germany. In a speech to Israeli lawmakers...

Africa mostly quiet amid widespread condemnation of Russia

Published:Monday | March 21, 2022 | 12:07 AM

KAMPALA (AP): Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni recently remarked that Russia’s war on Ukraine should be seen in the context of Moscow being the “centre of gravity” for Eastern Europe. His son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, was more forceful, declaring that...

Hong Kong will review COVID-19 restrictions as cases decline

Published:Sunday | March 20, 2022 | 5:38 PM

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Hong Kong's leader said Sunday that the government would consider lifting strict social distancing measures as new COVID-19 infections in the city continued trending downward. “I wouldn't promise now that...

Trains halt across Canada as union workers strike

Published:Sunday | March 20, 2022 | 3:51 PM

OTTAWA (AP) — The union and CP Rail blamed each other for a work stoppage Sunday that saw trains come to halt across Canada. More than 3,000 CP Rail conductors, engineers, train and yard workers represented by Teamsters Canada Rail Conference...

Ferry sinks near Bangladesh capital, at least six dead

Published:Sunday | March 20, 2022 | 10:42 AM

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Rescuers on Sunday recovered six bodies after a cargo vessel hit a ferry carrying dozens of people along a river outside Bangladesh's capital, officials and survivors said. It was not clear immediately how many...

Ukraine Crisis | Russians push deeper into Mariupol as locals plead for help

Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 3:05 PM

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces pushed deeper into Ukraine's besieged and battered port city of Mariupol on Saturday, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more Western help. The fall of...

China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year

Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 11:25 AM

BEIJING (AP) — China's health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years driven by a surge in the highly transmissible omicron variant. The...

High energy costs trigger unrest in parts of Europe

Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 10:05 AM

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — High energy costs are stoking unrest in parts of Europe, with Spain deploying more than 23,000 police officers amid a truckers' strike and farmers in France and Greece snarling traffic with...

UN: 6.5 million people displaced inside Ukraine due to war

Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 12:10 AM

GENEVA (AP): The UN migration agency said Friday that nearly 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine, on top of the 3.2 million who have already fled the country. That means that around a quarter of Ukraine’s 44 million people have...

US sanctions gold dealer, citing illicit Congo origin

Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 12:09 AM

KAMPALA (AP): A Belgian businessman sanctioned by the US over allegations of illicit gold trade in Congo said Friday the action undermines efforts to improve transparency in a region seeing rising official exports of the mineral. The US announced...

Putin likens opponents to ‘gnats,’ signalling new repression

Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 12:09 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Facing stiff resistance in Ukraine and crippling economic sanctions at home, Russian President Vladimir Putin is using language that recalls the rhetoric from Josef Stalin’s show trials of the 1930s. Putin’s ominous speech on...

House passes bill to end marriage for 14- and 15-year-olds

Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 12:09 AM

JUNEAU (AP): The Alaska House passed legislation Wednesday that would repeal a provision of law that allows a court to grant permission for someone as young as 14 to marry. The repeal provision was adopted last week as representatives weighed...

Court orders ex-president Fujimori freed from prison

Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 12:08 AM

LIMA (AP): Peru’s Constitutional Court on Thursday approved the release from prison of former president, Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for murder and corruption charges. The decision restored a humanitarian pardon granted to...

US House passes bill to prohibit discrimination based on hair

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 5:31 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Black people who wear hairstyles like Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists should not face bias in society, school and the workplace, the US House said Friday in voting to make it explicit that such discrimination...

UN: 6.5 million people displaced inside Ukraine due to war

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 4:47 PM

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations migration agency said Friday that nearly 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine, on top of the 3.2 million who have already fled the country. That means that around a quarter of Ukraine...

Canada says no COVID test results needed for vaccinated travellers

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 1:34 PM

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The Canadian government's announcement it is dropping the requirement for vaccinated travellers to show a negative COVID-19 test result to enter the country was greeted with relief by tourism and...

India buys Russian oil despite pressure for sanctions

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 1:25 PM

NEW DELHI (AP) — The state-run Indian Oil Corp. bought three million barrels of crude oil from Russia earlier this week to secure its energy needs, resisting Western pressure to avoid such purchases, an Indian government official said Friday...

Moderna seeks FDA authorisation for fourth dose of COVID shot

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 9:50 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to authorise a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for all adults. The request is broader than rival pharmaceutical company Pfizer's...

Rescuers search theatre rubble as attacks continue

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 12:10 AM

KYIV (AP): Rescue workers searched for survivors Thursday in the ruins of a theatre blown apart by a Russian airstrike in the besieged city of Mariupol, while scores of Ukrainians across the country were killed in ferocious urban attacks on a...

Man admits stabbing his father to death

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 12:10 AM

HAMILTON (CMC): A 28-year-old man has been remanded in custody after appearing in Supreme Court where he admitted stabbing his father, a former football team manager, to death. Tyshaun Brown was joined by his family, who were close to tears as he...

Young Trinidadian wins Commonwealth Youth Award

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 12:09 AM

A young man from Trinidad and Tobago has won a regional prize at this year’s Commonwealth Youth Awards. Mickel Alexander was named the Caribbean’s regional winner for founding ‘The 2 Cents Movement’ – a youth-led, arts-based educational programme...

UNITED NATIONS | Kremlin won’t ask UN council to vote on Ukraine resolution

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 12:08 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): Russia announced it will not ask the United Nations Security Council to vote Friday on its draft resolution on humanitarian relief for Ukraine, which has been criticised for making no mention of Moscow’s invasion of its...

More than 30 companies to start making Pfizer’s COVID pill

Published:Thursday | March 17, 2022 | 2:30 PM

GENEVA (AP) — Nearly three dozen companies worldwide will soon start making generic versions of Pfizer's coronavirus pill, the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool that negotiated the deal said Thursday. The Medicines Patent Pool said in a...

Zelenskyy pleads for more US help in speech to Congress

Published:Thursday | March 17, 2022 | 12:07 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy summoned the memory of Pearl Harbor and the September 11 terror attacks on Wednesday in an impassioned video plea to Congress to send more help for Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Lawmakers...

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