AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorisation of two new medicines against the coronavirus for people at risk of severe disease. In a statement on Thursday, the EU drug regulator said it had concluded that...
NEW DELHI (AP): One of India’s most sacred rivers appears to be coated with a thick layer of snow. Except it isn’t. A vast stretch of the Yamuna River is covered with white toxic foam, caused in part by pollutants discharged from industries ringing...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP): Ethiopian authorities have arrested and detained some 70 aid-delivering truck drivers contracted to the United Nations (UN) and other groups in the past week, the UN said Wednesday, beginning when the government declared a...
OAKLAND, California (AP): US food banks, already dealing with increased demand from families sidelined by the pandemic, now face a new challenge – surging food prices and supply chain issues walloping the nation. The higher costs and limited...
TOKYO (AP): Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, says China’s leaders “don’t understand the variety of different cultures” and that the ruling Communist Party’s penchant for tight social control can be harmful. The 86-year-old Buddhist...
WASHINGTON (CMC): Two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are included in six new countries whose nationals have become eligible to participate in agricultural and non-agricultural programmes in the United States this year. The Department of...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union's drug regulator said Wednesday that it has started evaluating whether to authorise Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, a decision that could significantly open up COVID-19...
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that coronavirus deaths rose by 10% in Europe in the past week, making it the only world region where both COVID-19 cases and deaths are steadily increasing. It was the sixth...
Published:Wednesday | November 10, 2021 | 12:11 AM
BRUSSELS (AP): Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen warned Tuesday that the “metaverse,” the all-encompassing virtual reality world at the heart of the social media giant’s growth strategy, will be addictive and rob people of yet more personal...
Published:Wednesday | November 10, 2021 | 12:11 AM
SAN JUAN (AP): The Rev Jean-Nicaisse Milien felt the cool barrel of a gun against his right ear. The Haitian priest and nine other people had just been kidnapped while driving through the outskirts of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, in early...
Published:Wednesday | November 10, 2021 | 12:11 AM
KYIV (AP): An American who faces criminal charges from the January 6 riot at the US Capitol is seeking asylum in Belarus, the country’s state TV reported, in a move that could further heighten tensions between the turbulent former Soviet nation and...
Pfizer asked United States regulators Tuesday to allow boosters of its COVID-19 vaccine for anyone 18 or older, a step that comes amid concern about the increased spread of the coronavirus with holiday travel and gatherings. Older Americans...
LONDON (AP) — The British government says all health care staff who work with the public will have to be vaccinated against the coronavirus starting in April, despite concerns the move could drive thousands of people to quit their jobs....
NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire swept through a newborn care unit in a hospital in central India, killing four infants, officials said. An investigation was ordered into the fire that occurred Monday night at the Kamla Nehru Children's Hospital...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — President Sebastián Piñera was impeached Tuesday by the lower house of Chile's congress, setting up a trial in the nation's Senate over allegations he favoured the sale of a family property while...
With the approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for younger children, many elementary schools around the US are preparing to offer the shots, which educators see as key to keeping students learning in person and making the classroom experience closer to...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP): Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was ahead by a wide margin on Monday, in his bid for a fourth consecutive term, in preliminary vote tallies for an election widely considered rigged. Ortega had received 75 per cent, an...
LONDON (AP): The British government announced on Monday that it would launch an independent inquiry into how a hospital electrician was able to sexually abuse at least 100 corpses in hospital mortuaries. David Fuller, 67, admitted last week during...
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): Bermuda’s Court of Appeal has upheld the convictions of a pair of half-siblings, who were handed life sentences after being convicted last year of the “chilling and merciless” murder of a Trinidadian guest worker 15 years...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Police are searching for a 33-year-old male relative, said to be the main suspect in the murders of two people and the injury to three others in an apparent family land dispute. The police said that the incident on Sunday night...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union's medicines agency on Monday began reviewing Merck's COVID-19 treatment pill so that it can swiftly advise national drug authorities in the 27-nation bloc that want to begin using it...
CHARLES DE GAULLE AIRPORT, France (AP) — The United States lifted restrictions Monday on travel from a long list of countries including Mexico, Canada and most of Europe, setting the stage for emotional reunions nearly two years in the...
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis on Sunday decried the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia and pressed for dialogue to prevail over the protracted war. The pontiff, in his traditional appearance to the public in St Peter’s Square, said...
BAGHDAD (AP): Troops were deployed around Baghdad on Sunday following the failed assassination attempt, with armed drones that targeted the residence of Iraq’s prime minister. The attack significantly ramped up tensions sparked by the refusal of...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan's security forces dispersed demonstrators and rounded up more than 100 people Sunday in the capital of Khartoum, in the latest crackdown on pro-democracy protesters after last month's military coup. The...
