GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government on Monday said that it has fully vaccinated more than half of the country’s adult population against the COVID-19 pandemic as the country registered more deaths and infections linked to the virus since March...
WASHINGTON (AP): Steve Bannon, a long-time ally of former President Donald Trump, appeared before a judge on Monday to face criminal contempt charges for defying a subpoena from a House committee investigating January’s insurrection at the US...
The military takeover in Myanmar has set its economy back years, if not decades, as political unrest and violence disrupt banking, trade, and livelihoods and millions slide deeper into poverty. The Southeast Asian country was already in recession...
CHIOS (AP): Among the prison inmates of the Greek island of Chios, three young men from Afghanistan and Somalia are serving dramatically long sentences: 50 years for two of them, a staggering 142 for the third. But these are not violent criminals,...
US president Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping are to hold their first presidential meeting today. The troubled US-China relationship is demonstrating that the power of one of Biden's greatest professed strengths as a politician...
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP): Almost 200 nations accepted a compromise deal Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it contained a last-minute change that watered down crucial language about coal. Several countries, including...
tripoli (AP): The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country’s presidential election next month, Libya’s election agency said. Seif al-Islam, who is wanted by the...
QUITO (AP): A prolonged gun battle between rival gangs inside Ecuador’s largest prison killed at least 68 inmates and wounded 25 on Saturday, while authorities said it took most of the day to regain control at the Litoral Penitentiary, which...
CAIRO (AP): Heavy rain and flooding in a southern province in Egypt have left three people dead and more than 500 others hospitalised from scorpion stings, state-run media reported. Downpours, hail and thunder in the province of Aswan over the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Prime Minister Ariel Henry has pleaded with the Organization of American States (OAS) to offer technical support in the fight against organised crime in the French-speaking Caribbean Community nation. In a letter sent to the...
At the main hospital in Romania’s capital, the morgue ran out of space for the dead in recent days, and doctors in Bulgaria have suspended routine surgeries so they can tend to a surge in COVID-19 patients.
After hours of one-on-one huddles and contentious disagreements over money, countries participating in United Nations talks to curb global warming appeared to be nearing a consensus Saturday, but India was saying not so fast.
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government Friday criticised the US-based carrier, American Airlines (AA), saying it is “gravely concerned” about recent flight cancellations to the country. In a statement, the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and...
BANGKOK (AP): A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced US journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison with hard labour, the maximum penalty under three charges, despite calls by the United States and rights groups for his release....
BRUNSWICK (AP): An attorney for one of the white men standing trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery told the judge Thursday he doesn’t want “any more black pastors” in the courtroom after the Rev Al Sharpton sat with the slain man’s family. Kevin...
DALLAS (AP): In the years after Leah Corken’s death, one detail after another haunted her daughter. Though M.J. Jennings came to accept that her mother likely died of a stroke, just the night before they had gone shopping and to a movie and the 83-...
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government is requiring children to get tested for COVID-19 as part of efforts to curtail a recent steep rise in cases. All elementary and high schools are required to test the country's 1.4 million students in two...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six United States oil executives detained in Venezuela for four years on corruption charges have been granted a hearing before an appeals court, a rare decision by the judicial system in the South American country. A judge...
Johnson & Johnson is splitting into two companies, peeling off the division selling Band-Aids and Listerine from its medical device and prescription drug business. The world's biggest maker of health care products, founded in 1886, said...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Latvia on Friday banned unvaccinated lawmakers from attending in-person and remote parliament meetings as of Monday when the monthlong lockdown ends. Their wages also will be suspended if they are not able to work...
BERLIN (AP): The number of people around the world forced to abandon their homes likely increased to more than 84 million in the first half of this year, an increase fuelled in particular by conflicts in Africa, the UN refugee agency said on...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Barbados is close to making a decision on administering the Pfizer vaccine to children five to 11 years old, Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George said on Wednesday. The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centres for...
KHARTOUM (AP): Sudan’s top general has reappointed himself as head of the army-run interim governing body, a sign that he’s tightening his grip on the country two weeks after he led a coup against civilian leaders. There was no immediate reaction...
GLASGOW (AP): United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday warned that a key temperature goal in climate talks is “on life support” but he still hopes that world governments will step up their pledges to slash emissions of...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died aged 85. Frederik Willem de Klerk died after a...
