ROME (AP) — Italy targeted the unvaccinated with a host of new coronavirus restrictions Monday, with proof of vaccination or recovery from a recent infection required to enter public transport, coffee shops, hotels, gyms and other everyday...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European drug regulator said Monday it has started evaluating an application by Pfizer for its pill to treat the effects of COVID-19. The announcement comes as countries in much of the 27-nation bloc are...
MOSCOW (AP) — The authorities in Kazakhstan said Monday that nearly 8,000 people were detained by police during protests that descended into violence last week and marked the worst unrest the former Soviet nation has faced since gaining...
NEW YORK (AP): At least 19 people, including nine children, died in a fire Sunday at a Bronx apartment building, the deadliest blaze in New York City in more than three decades. Stefan Ringel, a senior adviser to Mayor Eric Adams, confirmed the...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is now the first member state of the subregional grouping – the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) – to be granted permission for the export of medicinal cannabis. On Friday, the...
NEW DELHI (AP): Coronavirus cases fuelled by the highly transmissible Omicron variant are rocketing through India, prompting the federal government and states to swiftly reintroduce a string of restrictions. Night curfews are back. Restaurants and...
BRASILIA (AP): A towering slab of rock broke from a cliff and toppled onto pleasure boaters drifting near a waterfall on a Brazilian lake, and officials said at least six people died. Edgard Estevo, commander of the Minas Gerais State Fire...
NEW YORK (AP): More than 800,000 non-citizens and ‘Dreamers’ in New York City will have access to the ballot box – and could vote in municipal elections as early as next year –after Mayor Eric Adams allowed legislation to automatically become law...
BRUNSWICK, Georgia (AP): Three white men convicted of murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison Friday, with a judge denying any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): The Antigua and Barbuda Hotels and Tourism Association (ABHTA) says many resorts are reporting a significant decline in occupancy rates and that the trend is likely to continue unless the COVID-19 pandemic is controlled in the key...
WASHINGTON (AP): The nation’s unemployment rate fell in December to a healthy 3.9 per cent – a pandemic low – even as employers added a modest 199,000 jobs, evidence that they are struggling to fill jobs with many Americans reluctant to return to...
Ethiopia’s government on Friday announced an amnesty for some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including opposition figure Jawar Mohammed and senior Tigray party officials, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke of reconciliation...
ALBANY, New York (AP): The only criminal charge filed over the sexual harassment allegations that drove former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo from office was dismissed Friday at prosecutors’ request, clearing what had been seen as the most serious...
BRUNSWICK, Georgia (AP): Three white men convicted of murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison Friday, with a judge denying any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the...
MAKURDI, Nigeria (AP): More than 100 people have been killed in Nigeria’s troubled northern region, survivors told The Associated Press (AP), as authorities continue to search for bodies and for suspects of the three-day violence. Bandits arrived...
MOSCOW (AP): Kazakhstan’s president authorised security forces on Friday to shoot to kill those participating in unrest, opening the door for a dramatic escalation in a crackdown on anti-government protests that have turned violent. The Central...
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): Bermuda’s active COVID-19 cases have soared beyond 1,100 as a scientist in charge of the island’s fight against the virus announced she is to leave the job at the end of the month after accusing the government of ignoring...
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced Friday to life in prison, with a judge denying any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the deadly pursuit of the...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge on Friday dismissed the only criminal charge filed against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in connection with the sexual harassment allegations that drove him from office. The move had been expected after...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up two major Biden administration efforts to bump up the nation's vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases because of the omicron variant. The justices on...
MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan's president authorised security forces on Friday to shoot to kill those participating in unrest, opening the door for a dramatic escalation in a crackdown on anti-government protests that have turned violent. The...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden accused Donald Trump and his supporters of holding a “dagger at the throat of democracy” in a forceful speech on Thursday marking the anniversary of the deadly attack on the US Capitol. He warned that though it...
An unidentified person paid a ransom that freed three missionaries kidnapped by a gang in Haiti, under an agreement that was supposed to have led to the release of all 15 remaining captives early last month, workers for their Ohio-based...
MOSCOW (AP): Security forces killed dozens of protesters and 12 police died during extraordinarily violent demonstrations in Kazakhstan that saw government buildings stormed and set ablaze, authorities said Thursday. One police officer was found...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Health and port authorities here cancelled five cruise ship calls over a nine-day period because of outbreaks of flu-like symptoms on-board vessels. The ships that were turned away were scheduled to call between December 29 last...
