WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pushing forward with a massive plan to require millions of private sector employees to get vaccinated by early next year. But first, he has to make sure workers in his own federal government get the...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Troops and patrols deployed throughout Baghdad on Sunday following the failed assassination attempt with drones that targeted Iraq's prime minister in his residence. The attack significantly raised tensions, sparked by the...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — As COVID-19 ravaged Hungary in April, Budapest resident Akos Sipos received his second vaccine dose, believing he was doing the right thing for his own health and to help end the pandemic. But Sipos, 46, soon...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): The Embassy of the United States in Port-Au-Prince has announced the postponement of all visa appointments until Friday, November 12. In making the recent announcement, US officials said the embassy would remain open to...
WASHINGTON (AP): United States President Joe Biden said Saturday that the families of children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border during the Trump administration should be compensated, as his Department of Justice is in settlement...
HOUSTON (AP): The crowd at a Houston music festival suddenly surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, squeezing fans so tightly together that they could not breathe or move their arms and killing eight people in the...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP): An oil tanker truck exploded near Sierra Leone's capital, killing at least 98 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said Saturday. The...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Eleven patients died Saturday after a fire broke out in a hospital's COVID-19 ward in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said. There were 17 patients in the ward in the city of Ahmednagar where the fire...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — An oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone's capital, killing at least 92 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said Saturday...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States federal government has cancelled a multimillion-dollar deal with Emergent BioSolutions, a Maryland-based vaccine manufacturer with facilities in Baltimore that were found to have produced millions of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin L. Powell, the trailblasing soldier-diplomat who rose from humble beginnings to become the first black secretary of state, was remembered by family and friends Friday as a principled man of humility and grace whose...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Attorneys general in 11 states filed suit Friday against President Joe Biden's administration, challenging a new vaccine requirement for workers at companies with more than 100 employees. The lawsuit...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Friends, family and former colleagues are honouring Colin L. Powell, the widely praised soldier-diplomat who rose from humble Bronx beginnings to become the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later served...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer Inc. said Friday that its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalisation and death by nearly 90% in high-risk adults, as the drugmaker joins the race to bring the first easy-to-use medication...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Elizabeth Riley, says the protracted nature of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a radical shift in the socio-economic profiles of Caribbean...
WASHINGTON (AP): A Russian analyst who contributed to a dossier of Democratic-funded research into ties between Russia and Donald Trump was indicted Thursday on charges of lying to the FBI about his sources of information. The case against Igor...
LONDON (AP): Britain granted conditional authorisation on Thursday to the first pill shown to successfully treat COVID-19 so far. It also is the first country to OK the treatment from drugmaker Merck, although it wasn’t immediately clear how...
Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 4 or get tested for the virus weekly under government rules issued Thursday. The new requirements are the...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's top general on Thursday ordered the release of four ministers of the now-deposed government who were detained amid a widely condemned military coup last week, the country's state-run news agency reported. Moez...
Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 4 or get tested for the virus weekly under government rules issued Thursday. The new requirements, which...
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP): The princes, presidents and prime ministers have left, and now the real mask-to-mask climate negotiations start. For the next 10 days, maybe more, the professional diplomats at the crowded United Nations (UN) climate...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Prime Minister Ariel Henry has condemned the attack on the Milot hospital by armed individuals that has led to its closure, calling for an investigation into the matter and for those responsible to be prosecuted. “Such...
NEW DELHI (AP) — The World Health Organization granted an emergency use licence Wednesday to a coronavirus vaccine developed in India, offering reassurance for a shot the country's regulators allowed long before advanced safety and...
NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Eric Adams has been elected New York City mayor, defeating Republican Curtis Sliwa on Tuesday in a contest far easier than his next task: steering a damaged city through its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic....
GLASGOW (AP): World leaders promised to protect Earth’s forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the UN climate summit Tuesday – part of a flurry of deals intended to avert catastrophic global warming. Britain...
