PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Thousands of doctors, nurses and other health professionals across Haiti have gone on strike to protest a spike in gang-related kidnappings as supporters burned tires and blocked roads on Tuesday. The three-day strike...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Wednesday its evaluation of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has been postponed for the time being, due to the “uneven situation.” WHO vaccines expert Dr Mariangela Simao...
TOKYO (AP) — A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, triggering a tsunami advisory and plunging more than two million homes in the Tokyo area into darkness. The region is...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' top court is set to rule Wednesday on a request by Ukraine for its judges to order Russia to halt its devastating invasion. But it remains to be seen if Moscow would comply with any...
LONDON (AP) — After dropping nearly all coronavirus restrictions last month, Britain is now ending some of its most widespread COVID-19 testing and monitoring programmes, a move some scientists fear will complicate efforts to track...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Lawyers representing former attorney general Adriel Brathwaite says their client will be appealing Monday’s High Court decision that the Senate can lawfully meet with 18 appointed members although the constitution makes reference...
LVIV (AP): They are idealists who abandoned their jobs for the battlefields of Ukraine, looking for a cause or simply to fight. The Ukrainian president’s call for foreign volunteers to join an international brigade to help bolster his country’s...
NEW DELHI (AP): An Indian court Tuesday upheld a ban on wearing hijab in class in the southern state of Karnataka, saying the Muslim headscarf is not an essential religious practice of Islam in a ruling that is likely to further deepen religious...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have adopted a protocol which should create opportunities to further the principles, goals and objectives of the community through enhanced cooperation, according to a statement issued by the...
PRZEMYSL (AP): While over three million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, a small but growing number are heading in the other direction. At first they were foreign volunteers, Ukrainian expatriate men returning to fight and people...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Pfizer is expected to request authorisation this week for an additional COVID-19 booster dose for seniors, according to a person familiar with the matter. It would add a fourth dose to the regimen — currently...
BEIJING (AP) — China's new COVID-19 cases Tuesday more than doubled from the previous day as the country faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. The National Health Commission said 3,507 new locally spread...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An appeals court on Tuesday overturned a groundbreaking ruling that Australia's environment minister had a duty to protect younger people against climate change. Three Federal Court judges ruled for a variety of...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Activists supporting same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda received a heavy blow on Monday following a ruling by a top appeals court in London. The United Kingdom’s Privy Council, which serves as the final...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Volunteer searchers in northern Mexico led authorities to a series of grisly finds: 17 bodies or skeletal remains buried in the backyards and patios of houses in a low-income housing development, prosecutors in the northern border...
WARSAW (AP): A Russian missile attack that killed at least 35 people in western Ukraine, some 15 miles from NATO member Poland, has stirred anxiety and spurred Poles to rush to passport offices and stockpile essentials amid fears the war could cut...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's government said Monday all remaining coronavirus measures for travellers, including passenger locator forms and the requirement that unvaccinated people be tested for COVID-19 before and after their arrivals, will...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilised military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading “stealth omicron” variant fuels the country's biggest outbreak...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's top court on Monday refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the United States to face spying charges. The court said it refused because the case “...
SKOPJE, North Macedonia — The European Union's foreign policy chief says the 27-country bloc is finalising its new round of sanctions against Russia for its “barbaric” invasion of Ukraine. Josep Borrell said Monday that the...
Former President Barack Obama said on Sunday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, though he's feeling relatively healthy and his wife, Michelle, tested negative. “I've had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am...
Waves of Russian missiles pounded a military training base in western Ukraine on Sunday, killing 35 people in an attack on a facility that has served as a crucial hub for cooperation between Ukraine and the NATO countries supporting it in...
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces pounding the port city of Mariupol shelled a mosque sheltering more than 80 people, including children, the Ukrainian government said Saturday. Fighting also raged on the outskirts of Ukraine...
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP): With COVID-19 case numbers plummeting, Emily Safrin did something she hadn’t done since the pandemic began two years ago: She put her fears aside and went to a concert. The fully vaccinated and boosted restaurant server...
LOS ANGELES (AP): US authorities have broadly expanded the use of a smartphone app during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure immigrants released from detention will attend deportation hearings, a requirement that advocates say violates their...
