PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Haitian authorities Tuesday said that more than 2,500 homes were damaged as a result of floods caused by the passage of a cold front on Monday. There have been no reports of deaths. The Civil Protection said in its partial...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says overuse of gloves, “moon suits” and the use of billions of masks and vaccination syringes to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus have spurred a huge glut of health care waste...
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States health regulators on Monday granted full approval to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, a shot that's already been given to tens of millions of Americans since its emergency authorisation over a year ago...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP): Police in Canada’s capital said on Sunday they are investigating possible criminal charges after anti-vaccine protesters urinated on the National War Memorial, danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and used the statue of...
LONDON (AP): Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised on Monday after an inquiry found that Downing Street parties, while Britain was in lockdown, represented a “serious failure” to observe the standards expected of government or to heed the...
OUAGADOUGOU (AP): The African Union has suspended Burkina Faso until constitutional order is restored in the West African country, the organisation announced in a tweet on Monday. The suspension of Burkina Faso comes a week after mutinous soldiers...
PARAMARIBO (CMC): A judge on Monday sentenced the former head of the legal department of the Central Bank of Suriname (CBvS), Faranaaz Hausil, to three years in jail on corruption related charges. Judge Maytrie Kuldip Singh also imposed a fine of...
The United Kingdom has scrapped plans to enforce an order for all National Health Service (NHS) staff in England to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Some 60,000 frontline health workers were set to be dismissed if they were not vaccinated...
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised Monday after an inquiry found that Downing Street parties while Britain was in lockdown represented a “serious failure” to observe the standards expected of government or to...
LONDON (AP) — Social gatherings held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff while Britain was in lockdown represent a “serious failure” to observe the standards expected of government, an investigation found Monday. Senior...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Police in Canada's capital said Sunday they are investigating possible criminal charges after anti-vaccine protesters urinated on the National War Memorial, danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and used the...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A cold snap in Florida is different than in other places. We put on heavy coats when it's 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius). No blizzard conditions here in the Sunshine State, but we have our issues...
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been handed an investigator's long-awaited report into lockdown-breaching government parties, the government said Monday — but findings about the most serious allegations have been...
SEOUL (AP) North Korea on Sunday fired what appeared to be the most powerful missile it has tested since President Joe Biden took office, as it revives its old playbook in brinkmanship to wrest concessions from Washington and neighbours amid a...
CONROE, Texas (AP) As he prepared to tee off at one of his Florida golf courses, a fellow player introduced Donald Trump as the “45th president of the United States”. “Forty fifth and 47th,” Trump responded matter-of-factly, before hitting his...
LONDON (AP): Relatives of those killed and injured on Bloody Sunday marched in Northern Ireland to mark 50 years since one of the deadliest days in the conflict known as The Troubles. Thirteen people were killed and 15 others injured when...
CAIRO (AP): Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Sudan’s capital and other cities across the country on Sunday for the latest in a months-long string of demonstrations denouncing an October military coup that plunged the country into...
Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst has died in an apparent suicide in Manhattan. She was 30. New York police report that Kryst jumped from a Manhattan apartment building on Sunday morning. She was pronounced dead at the scene. In a statement,...
MENDON, Massachussetts (AP): A Boston hospital in the United States is defending itself after a man’s family claimed he was denied a new heart for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying most transplant programs around the country set...
TEHRAN (AP): As much of the world sees vaccination slowing and infections soaring with the spread of omicron, Iran has found a rare, if fleeting, respite from the anxiety and trauma of the pandemic. After successive virus waves pummelled the...
SEOUL (AP): South Korea’s top infectious disease expert defended the move to expand the use of rapid testing despite accuracy concerns, as the country broke its daily coronavirus record multiple times last week. The 14,518 confirmed new cases...
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (AP): The African continent is on course to reach its target of vaccinating at least 70 per cent of its population against COVID-19 by the end of 2022, the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in Congress have fractured repeatedly over President Joe Biden's agenda, stalling legislation and creating an atmosphere of mistrust that has made it increasingly difficult for progressives and centrists to...
BOSTON (AP) — Residents and officials across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States were bracing for a powerful winter storm expected to produce blizzard conditions Friday and Saturday. Heavy snow and strong winds...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines will lift a ban on the entry of foreign tourists and businesspeople next month after nearly two years, in a move to revive the battered tourism industry as the latest coronavirus outbreak started to...
