NEW YORK (AP) — Mounting trash. Closed firehouses. Fewer police and ambulances on the street. That's the possibility New York City is bracing for come Monday as a COVID-19 vaccine mandate looms and thousands of municipal workers remain...
OAKLAND, California (AP): An embattled Facebook Inc is changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc, or Meta for short, to reflect what CEO Mark Zuckerberg says is its commitment to developing the new surround-yourself technology known as the ‘metaverse...
WASHINGTON (AP): Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he used in the...
NAIROBI (AP): Children were among 10 people killed when an Ethiopian military airstrike hit the capital of the country’s Tigray region on Thursday, a doctor and a Tigray spokesman said. It was the deadliest of a new round of airstrikes that began...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council called on Sudan's military leaders Thursday to restore the civilian-led transitional government and immediately release all those detained after the military takeover. The UN...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — The state of Florida on Thursday sued President Joe Biden's administration over its coronavirus vaccine mandate for federal contractors, opening yet another battleground between Republican Governor Ron...
OAKLAND, California (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future — what Zuckerberg calls the “ metaverse.”...
LONDON (AP) — Britain on Thursday said it was removing the last seven countries on its travel “red list,” meaning travellers vaccinated against the coronavirus will no longer have to quarantine in a government-approved hotel after...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's strongman fired at least six ambassadors, including the envoys to the United States, the European Union and France, after they condemned the military's takeover of the country, a military official said...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — African health officials and the United Nations are warning of a looming shortage of more than two billion syringes for mainly low- and middle-income countries around the world as the supply of COVID-19 doses rises, and...
LONDON (AP): US authorities launched a new battle on Wednesday to make Julian Assange face American justice, telling British judges that if they agree to extradite the WikiLeaks founder on espionage charges, he could serve any US prison sentence he...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): Gunmen have released two people, including a pastor, who had been abducted 23 days ago as Haiti continues to deal with numerous acts of unrest, such as work stoppages and gangs preventing the delivery of much-needed fuel to...
LONDON (AP): A Cambridge University college handed over a bronze cockerel looted from Africa in the 19th century to Nigerian authorities on Wednesday, as part of a modest but growing effort in some European countries to return African art taken by...
DUBAI (AP): Iran’s president said Wednesday that a cyberattack which paralysed every gas station in the Islamic Republic was designed to get “people angry by creating disorder and disruption”, as long lines still snaked around the pumps a day after...
MADRID (AP) — People who received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine will be offered a second dose from a different drug maker, Spain's health authorities said on Wednesday. Spain's health ministry said that the...
LONDON (AP) — United States authorities launched a new battle on Wednesday to make Julian Assange face American justice, telling British judges that if they agree to extradite the WikiLeaks founder on espionage charges, he could serve...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian Senate committee recommended on Tuesday that President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world's second highest COVID-19 death toll. The 7-to-...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese security forces detained three prominent pro-democracy figures overnight, their relatives and other activists said Wednesday, as internal and international pressure mounted on the country's military to walk back...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called on Caribbean countries to be prepared for possibility of a climate change event that could cause mass migration and displacement in the Caribbean. “2017 was that year that showed us the...
DUBAI (AP): A cyberattack crippled gas stations across Iran on Tuesday, leaving angry motorists stranded in long lines. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which rendered useless the government-issued electronic cards that...
AKRON, Ohio (AP): A man convicted of killing nine people in arson fires in his neighbourhood was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole for each death. Judge Christine Croce also ordered that Stanley Ford, of Akron, serve the terms...
TORONTO (AP): Prime Minister Justin Trudeau overhauled his cabinet on Tuesday and named women to the foreign affairs and defence posts in his gender balanced cabinet. Trudeau named Mélanie Joly as foreign minister and Anita Anand as defence...
CAIRO (AP): A military official says Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and his wife were allowed to return to their home in Khartoum. He said Hamdok’s house is “under heavy security”. The official did not say Tuesday whether the Hamdoks are...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's deposed prime minister and his wife were allowed to return home Tuesday after being detained when the military seized power in a coup, officials said, The release of Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and his wife...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States moved a step closer to expanding COVID-19 vaccinations for millions more children as a panel of government advisers on Tuesday endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer's shots for 5-to-11-year-olds. A Food and...
