WASHINGTON, DC (AP) : Dr Anthony Fauci, the top United States infectious disease expert, said on Monday the US should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel, signalling a potential embrace of an idea the Biden administration has...
The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Biden administration alleging the abuse of asylum-seeking Haitians, whose rights it said had been violated when they were removed from a makeshift camp in Texas in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr Anthony Fauci, the top United States infectious disease expert, said Monday America should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel, signalling a potential embrace of an idea the Biden...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is planning a week of services and events to honour Desmond Tutu's life of activism for racial equality and LGBT rights. Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, died Sunday at the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Flight cancellations that disrupted holiday travel stretched into Monday, with major United States airlines each cancelling dozens of flights. Staffers calling out sick because of COVID-19, particularly since...
BENI (AP) : Authorities in eastern Congo announced an evening curfew and new security checkpoints Sunday, fearing more violence after a suicide bomber killed five people in the first attack of its kind in the region. Beni Mayor Narcisse Muteba, a...
NASSAU (CMC): President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Hyginus “Gene” Leon, has pledged to continue supporting priority reforms to advance holistic development in The Bahamas with infrastructure, education and digital...
(CMC): The United States Coast Guard says the crew of the cutter Raymond Evan repatriated 39 Cubans to Cuba on Friday following four interdictions due to “safety of life at sea concerns” off the Florida Keys. The US Coast Guard said the cutter...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died on Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders and people around...
BELMOPAN (CMC): The Belize government has postponed the January 1 reopening of borders at its air and sea ports. A government statement said that based on the formal recommendations of the COVID-19 advisory committee, it has agreed that the...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The latest COVID-19 variant is upending holiday plans for tens of thousands of travellers — but it didn't do much damage to holiday shopping. Airlines cancelled hundreds more flights Sunday, citing staffing...
BENI, Congo (AP) — Authorities in eastern Congo announced an evening curfew and new security checkpoints Sunday, fearing more violence after a suicide bomber killed five people in the first attack of its kind in the region. Beni Mayor...
PARIS (AP) — France has recorded more than 100,000 virus infections in a single day for the first time in the pandemic and COVID-19 hospitalisations have doubled over the past month, as the fast-spreading omicron variant complicates the...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — President Nayib Bukele's government has freed three Salvadoran women who were sentenced to 30 years in prison under the nation's strict anti-abortion laws after suffering obstetric emergencies,...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of the country's past racist policy of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90....
MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has slapped Google with a nearly $100 million fine and also fined Facebook's parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law, as Russia seeks to step up pressure on...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Khartoum on Saturday as demonstrators once again took to the streets in the country's capital and elsewhere to denounce the October military coup. Thousands...
NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines continued to cancel hundreds of flights Saturday as staffing issues tied to COVID-19disrupted holiday celebrations during one of the busiest travel times of the year. FlightAware, a flight-tracking...
ROME (AP) — Christians around the world celebrated their second COVID-19 Christmas on Saturday with surging infections in many countries overwhelming hospitals, cancelling flights and curbing religious observances, even as coronavirus...
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people across England are spending a few minutes of Christmas Day to line up under leaden winter skies to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as the omicron variant fuels a surge in infections across the country. The...
Jamaicans returning home from the New York tri-state region are enduring punishing waiting times to get COVID-19 rapid tests so that they can make their trips. Travellers to Jamaica must have a negative COVID test to board flights.
From Bethlehem and Frankfurt to London and Boston, the surging coronavirus put a damper on Christmas Eve for a second year, forcing churches to cancel or scale back services and disrupting travel plans and family gatherings. Drummers and bagpipers...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African Cabinet minister on Friday urged the cancellation of an upcoming United States auction of a key to the Robben Island prison cell where Nelson Mandela, the country's first Black president, was long...
NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights as the omicron variant jumbled schedules and drew down staffing levels at some carriers during the busy holiday travel season. Delta Air Lines and United Airlines said they...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries that it imposed to try to blunt the spread of the COVID omicron variant, the White House announced Friday. The variant, which was first...
