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Published:Wednesday | November 24, 2021 | 12:11 AM

PARIS (AP): After testing positive for COVID-19, France’s prime minister is being singled out on social media and beyond as an example of what not to do in the pandemic. Multiple videos are circulating of a maskless Prime Minister Jean Castex...

Published:Wednesday | November 24, 2021 | 12:11 AM

SOFIA (AP): A bus carrying tourists back to North Macedonia crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria early Tuesday, killing at least 45 people, including a dozen children, authorities said. DNA tests were being carried out to identify the...

Published:Wednesday | November 24, 2021 | 12:10 AM

KINGSTOWN (CMC): The St Vincent and the Grenadines government Tuesday expressed condolences to the family of Sir James Mitchell, the country’s second prime minister, who died here at the age of 90. A statement issued by the Office of the Prime...

Published:Tuesday | November 23, 2021 | 5:04 PM

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization's Europe office says projections show its 53-country region could face another 700,000 deaths in the coronavirus pandemic by next spring, topping two million in total. WHO Europe,...

Published:Tuesday | November 23, 2021 | 9:54 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered 50 million barrels of oil released from the nation's strategic reserve to help bring down energy costs, in coordination with other major energy-consuming nations, including China,...

Published:Tuesday | November 23, 2021 | 12:10 AM

DAKAR, Senegal (AP): Travelling across Africa, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saw first-hand the limits of America’s influence abroad. Blinken confronted authoritarianism, growing threats from newly energised extremists, and persistent...

Published:Tuesday | November 23, 2021 | 12:09 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Two of 17 members of a missionary group who were kidnapped more than a month ago are safe and “in good spirits” after being freed in Haiti, their US-based church organisation announced. Christian Aid Ministries issued a...

Published:Monday | November 22, 2021 | 4:52 PM

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s reinstated prime minister said in an interview that aired Monday that he will have the authority to form his own independent government, according to the agreement he signed a day earlier with the country’s...

Published:Monday | November 22, 2021 | 3:54 PM

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government expects 200,000 vaccinated foreign students and skilled workers will soon return without quarantining when the country further relaxes pandemic restrictions next week. From December 1,...

Published:Monday | November 22, 2021 | 2:27 PM

LONDON (AP) — WhatsApp is adding more details to its privacy policy and flagging that information for European users after Irish regulators slapped the chat service with a record fine for breaching strict EU data privacy rules. Starting...

Published:Monday | November 22, 2021 | 11:23 AM

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency says it is evaluating whether to authorise booster doses of Johnson & Johnson's single-shot COVID-19 vaccine. In a statement Monday, the EU drug regulator said it was considering an...

Published:Monday | November 22, 2021 | 9:32 AM

CAIRO (AP) — Security forces have targeted hospitals and blocked injured protesters from treatment since the military seized control of the country last month, Sudanese doctors said Monday, after raising the total number of anti-coup...

Published:Monday | November 22, 2021 | 12:07 AM

PARIS (AP): French authorities are sending police special forces to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, an overseas territory of France, as protests over COVID-19 restrictions erupted into rioting. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin denounced “...

Published:Monday | November 22, 2021 | 12:06 AM

CAIRO (AP): Sudan's deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military on Sunday that will see him reinstated, almost a month after a military coup put him under house arrest. A key pro-democracy group that has mobilised dozens of protests...

Published:Sunday | November 21, 2021 | 11:25 AM

EDE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police have arrested more than 30 people during unrest in The Hague and other towns in the Netherlands that followed an “ orgy of violence ” the previous night at a protest against...

Published:Sunday | November 21, 2021 | 10:34 AM

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military on Sunday that will see him reinstated, almost a month after a military coup put him under house arrest. A key pro-democracy group that has mobilised dozens of...

Published:Sunday | November 21, 2021 | 12:13 AMBruno Lemarquis - Contributor

CMC: Haiti is currently making global headlines for all the wrong reasons; it is experiencing a multidimensional crisis, including an upsurge in violence, a lack of fuel which is crippling many key services, and the August earthquake which killed...

Published:Sunday | November 21, 2021 | 12:09 AM

AP: At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As...

Published:Sunday | November 21, 2021 | 12:09 AM

AP: The disappearance of tennis star Peng Shuai in China following her accusation of sexual assault against a former top Communist Party official has shined a spotlight on similar cases involving political dissidents, entertainers, business leaders...

Published:Saturday | November 20, 2021 | 3:59 PM

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has issued emergency use advice for Merck's COVID-19 pill, even though the oral medicine has not yet been authorised. The Amsterdam-based European Union regulator said the antiviral pill,...

Published:Saturday | November 20, 2021 | 2:16 PM

VIENNA (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters, many from far-right groups, marched through Vienna on Saturday after the Austrian government announced a nationwide lockdown beginning Monday to contain skyrocketing coronavirus infections....

Published:Saturday | November 20, 2021 | 11:35 AM

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Canada's health regulator approved Pfizer's kid-size COVID-19 shot on Friday and announced it will allow Canadians returning from short trips abroad to use a quicker, less-expensive test for the coronavirus...

Published:Saturday | November 20, 2021 | 10:33 AM

HYDERABAD, India (AP) — At least 17 people have died and dozens are reported missing in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh after days of heavy rains, authorities said Saturday. The state has been hit by intense torrents since...

Published:Saturday | November 20, 2021 | 12:08 AM

CARACAS (AP): Zoe Martano is no stranger to misery. At six, she has spent half of her life in and out of a Venezuelan hospital, being prodded and poked, rushed to the ICU and hooked up to IV lines meant to keep her alive until her country’s crises...

Published:Saturday | November 20, 2021 | 12:07 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government has announced a seven per cent salary increase for public servants, retroactive to January 1 this year. “I am pleased to announce now that your government will be paying an across-the-board increase of seven...

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