LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Sussex on Thursday won the latest stage in her long-running privacy lawsuit against a British newspaper publisher over its publication of parts of a letter she wrote to her estranged father. The Court of Appeal in...
PARIS (AP) — Greeks who are over age 60 and refuse coronavirus vaccinations could be hit with monthly fines of more than one-quarter of their pensions — a get-tough policy that the country's politicians say will cost votes...
The US recorded its first confirmed case of the Omicron variant Wednesday — in a vaccinated traveller who returned to California after a trip to South Africa — as scientists around the world race to establish whether the new, mutant version of the...
OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP): A 15-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with murder, terrorism and other crimes for a shooting that killed four fellow students and injured others at a Michigan high school. Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald...
BEIJING (AP): China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying 85 per cent of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Wednesday called for increased vaccination and public health measures to ensure the best possible protection against the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 pandemic. PAHO Director Dr...
MOSCOW (AP): Russia warned Wednesday that a number of US diplomats will have to leave Russia before the end of next month, the latest salvo in a diplomatic tug of war between Moscow and Washington. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The United States recorded its first confirmed case of the omicron variant Wednesday — in a vaccinated traveller who returned to California after a trip to South Africa — as scientists around the world race to...
Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are being rattled again as countries throw up new barriers to travel in an effort to contain the omicron...
Washington (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to toughen testing requirements for international travellers to the United States, including both vaccinated and unvaccinated people, amid the spread of the new omicron variant of the...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has detected its first case of the omicron coronavirus variant in a sample it collected in October, weeks before South Africa alerted the world about the variant last week, the country's national public...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says he looks forward to the day when other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will follow Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Dominica, and adopt a republic form of government. In a...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Barbados Tuesday became the fourth English-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and sworn in Dame Sandra Mason as the island’s first president with a 21-gun...
GENEVA — The World Health Organization says “blanket travel bans” will not prevent the spread of a new coronavirus variant, while acknowledging that countries could order quarantines and take screening measures like testing...
BRUSSELS (AP) — New findings about the omicron variant of the coronavirus made it clear Tuesday that the emerging threat slipped into countries before their defences were up, as two distant nations announced their first cases and a...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's medical agency chief said Tuesday that it is ready to deal with the new omicron variant and that it will take two weeks to have an indication of whether the current COVID-19 vaccines will be able to...
GENEVA (AP): The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday that the global risk from the Omicron variant is “very high” based on early evidence, saying the mutated coronavirus could lead to surges with “severe consequences”. The UN health...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP): Magdalena Andersson, who last week was Sweden’s first female prime minister for a few hours before resigning because a budget defeat made a coalition partner quit, was elected again on Monday as the Nordic nation’s head of...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): The Caribbean island of Barbados on Monday prepared to wave goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II as head of state as it cuts ties with its colonial past and becomes a republic for the first time in history. The preparations...
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP): Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the wife of ousted former President Mel Zelaya, has taken a commanding lead in Honduras’ elections, capping a 12-year effort. If preliminary tallies from the election on Sunday are confirmed,...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization warned Monday that the global risk from the omicron variant is “very high” based on the early evidence, saying the mutated coronavirus could lead to surges with “severe...
NEW YORK (AP) — With an expanded definition to reflect the times, Merriam-Webster has declared an omnipresent truth as its 2021 word of the year: vaccine. “This was a word that was extremely high in our data every single day in 2021,...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — From appliance stores in the United States to food markets in Hungary and gas stations in Poland, rising consumer prices fuelled by high energy costs and supply chain disruptions are putting a...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): An insurance scheme being facilitated by the Department of Environment (DoE) will be making funds available to farmers who have encountered major losses over the years due to natural disasters and other unplanned events. Through...
THE HAGUE (AP): Cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in countries on opposite sides of the world on Sunday, and many governments rushed to close their borders even as scientists cautioned that it’s not clear if the new variant...
