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UK offers $1.3 billion to businesses hurt by omicron

Published:Tuesday | December 21, 2021 | 12:53 PM

LONDON (AP) — Britain announced one billion pounds in grants and other aid to help the hospitality industry survive the onslaught of the omicron variant of COVID-19, bowing to days of pressure from pubs, restaurants and other...

Biden to pledge 500M free COVID-19 tests to counter omicron

Published:Tuesday | December 21, 2021 | 9:29 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the omicron variant on the march, President Joe Biden plans to announce 500 million free rapid tests for Americans, increased support for hospitals under strain and a redoubling of vaccination and boosting...

Opposition elects new leader

Published:Tuesday | December 21, 2021 | 12:09 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), the main party within the coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), on Sunday elected Aubrey Norton as its new leader to replace former president David Granger, who did not...

Gunmen kill 47 in latest attacks

Published:Tuesday | December 21, 2021 | 12:09 AM

LAGOS (AP): Nigerian security forces are searching for armed gangs who killed 47 people in attacks in recent days in rural areas of the country’s northwest, the latest killings in the troubled region. The attacks took place in the northwest Kaduna...

Church agency: Captive missionaries made daring escape

Published:Tuesday | December 21, 2021 | 12:08 AM

Captive missionaries in Haiti found freedom last week by making a daring overnight escape, eluding their kidnappers and walking for miles over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other children in tow, according to the agency they work...

With Christmas in the balance, nations eye UK omicron surge

Published:Monday | December 20, 2021 | 10:06 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain's main nurses' union warned Monday that exhaustion and surging coronavirus cases among medical staff are pushing them to the breaking point, adding to pressure on the government for new restrictions to...

COVID-19 restrictions could tighten by Christmas

Published:Monday | December 20, 2021 | 12:07 AM

LONDON (AP): Britain’s health secretary has refused to rule out imposing tougher COVID-19 restrictions before Christmas amid the rapid rise of infections and continuing uncertainty about the Omicron variant. Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on...

Typhoon deaths cross 100, mayors plead for food

Published:Monday | December 20, 2021 | 12:06 AM

MANILA, (AP): The governor of an island province in the central Philippines said Sunday at least 72 people died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in more than half of the towns that managed to contact him, bringing the death toll in the...

Mass anti-coup protests mark uprising anniversary

Published:Monday | December 20, 2021 | 12:06 AM

CAIRO (AP): Sudanese people took to the streets in the capital of Khartoum and elsewhere across the country for mass protests Sunday against an October military takeover and a subsequent deal that reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok but...

Omicron may sideline two leading drugs against COVID

Published:Sunday | December 19, 2021 | 1:22 PM

As strained U.S. hospitals brace for a new surge of COVID-19 cases caused by the fast-spreading omicron variant, doctors are warning of yet another challenge: the two standard drugs they've used to fight infections are unlikely to work against...

US hospitals struggle as COVID beds fill up

Published:Saturday | December 18, 2021 | 5:24 PM

Hospitals across the United States are struggling to cope with burnout among doctors, nurses and other workers, already buffeted by a crush of patients from the ongoing surge of the COVID-19 delta variant and now bracing for the fallout of another highly transmissible mutation.

Healthcare system on the brink of collapse

Published:Saturday | December 18, 2021 | 12:07 AM

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP): The diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients has run out. So have supplies of dozens of essential drugs. The staff, unpaid for months, still shows up for work, but they are struggling to make ends meet...

Madagascar court jails two Frenchmen for plotting failed coup

Published:Friday | December 17, 2021 | 5:12 PM

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — A court in Madagascar has convicted two French citizens of having plotted a failed coup against President Andry Rajoelina and sentenced them to 10 years and 20 years of forced labour. At the end of a 10-day...

Fearing omicron variant, holiday revellers curb celebrations

Published:Friday | December 17, 2021 | 4:49 PM

LONDON (AP) — Christmas revellers across Europe are lying low and United States officials are intensifying calls for unvaccinated Americans to get inoculated in the face of the new omicron variant, which threatens to wipe out a second...

UN leader urges ‘concrete’ moves on year-end vaccine goal

Published:Friday | December 17, 2021 | 9:56 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres exhorted the world Thursday to make “concrete” progress within days toward a now-distant goal of vaccinating 40% of the global population against COVID-19 before...

South Africa to give J&J vaccines to other African nations

Published:Friday | December 17, 2021 | 9:45 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa will donate just over two million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to other African countries to boost the continent's COVID-19 vaccine drive, the government announced Friday. The doses,...

All from US missionary group freed in Haiti – police

Published:Friday | December 17, 2021 | 7:18 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): The remaining members of a US missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed, Haitian police and the church group said Thursday. The spokesman for Haiti’s National Police, Gary Desrosiers, confirmed...

Soaring infections rattle Europe

Published:Friday | December 17, 2021 | 7:18 AM

LONDON (AP): Soaring infections in Britain driven in part by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus rattled Europe on Thursday, prompting new restrictions on the continent and fuelling a familiar dread on both sides of the Atlantic about entering...

CDC panel recommends Pfizer, Moderna COVID shots over J&J’s

Published:Friday | December 17, 2021 | 7:18 AM

MOST AMERICANS should be given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of the Johnson...

Officials declare end to latest Ebola outbreak in the east

Published:Friday | December 17, 2021 | 12:07 AM

BENI (AP: Congolese officials on Thursday announced an end to an Ebola outbreak that had killed at least six people since October in the latest health challenge confronting the country’s restive east. The most recent outbreak erupted in North Kivu...

CDC panel recommends Pfizer, Moderna vaccines over J&J shot

Published:Thursday | December 16, 2021 | 5:03 PM

Most Americans should be given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of the Johnson & Johnson shot that can cause rare but serious blood clots, United States health advisers recommended Thursday. The strange clotting problem has caused...

France to restrict travel from Britain to fight omicron

Published:Thursday | December 16, 2021 | 2:33 PM

PARIS (AP) — France will sharply restrict travel to and from Britain because of fast-spreading cases of the omicron coronavirus variant, putting limits on reasons for travelling and requiring 48-hour isolation upon arrival, the...

EU leaders urge booster shots, seek coordinated travel rules

Published:Thursday | December 16, 2021 | 11:16 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders agreed Thursday that administering booster shots is “urgent” and “crucial” to tackle the surge of coronavirus infections across the continent and the emergence of the...

Congo declares end to latest Ebola outbreak in the east

Published:Thursday | December 16, 2021 | 9:55 AM

BENI, Congo (AP) — Congolese officials on Thursday announced an end to an Ebola outbreak that had killed at least six people since October in the latest health challenge confronting the country's restive east. The most recent outbreak...

Canada advises against foreign travel, Ontario limits events

Published:Thursday | December 16, 2021 | 9:39 AM

TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government on Wednesday advised Canadians against all non-essential international travel, and the largest province of Ontario capped capacity at large events like NBA and NHL games at 50% because of the new...

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