LAGOS (AP): Six women and nine children abducted by Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremist rebels in the country’s troubled northeast have escaped after months in captivity, according to a Borno state official. The 15 former hostages met with Borno...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund expressed “full confidence” in its managing director Tuesday in response to allegations that while she was a World Bank official, she and others pressured...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — The county government that is home to Florida's capital was fined $3.5 million Tuesday by state health officials for requiring its employees to get COVID-19 vaccines and for firing 14 workers who failed to get...
LONDON (AP) — Job vacancies in the United Kingdom rose to a record high of nearly 1.2 million, official figures showed Tuesday, a further sign that the British economy is experiencing worker shortages in an array of sectors as a result...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is slightly downgrading its outlook for the global recovery from the pandemic recession, reflecting the persistence of supply chain disruptions in industrialised countries and deadly...
NEW YORK — Many Americans who got Pfizer vaccinations are rolling up their sleeves for a booster shot. Meanwhile, millions who received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine wait to learn when it's their turn. Federal regulators...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's failure to impose a lockdown in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic cost thousands of unnecessary deaths and ranks among the country's worst public health blunders, lawmakers concluded Tuesday in the nation...
Twenty students drawn from five primary schools in St Catherine were awarded equal shares of a donation of $200,000 from the Beecher Foundation on October 2. The awards of $10,000, along with a medal and copy of the Bible, was in recognition for...
WESTERN BUREAU: “We believe as youths, we were born to make a difference.” Those are the words that the Foster Triplets made actionable last Friday when they donated an infant incubator and a bilirubinometer, valued at $1.5 million, to the...
Member of Parliament (MP) for St James Southern Homer Davis wants an independent water czar to be appointment and given the mandate to monitor water systems which are owned and managed by the National Water Commission (NWC), in order to ensure...
ROME (AP) — Moderna has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because executives have concluded that scaling up the company's own production is the best way to increase the global supply, the company's chairman said...
DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines cancelled several hundred more flights Monday following a weekend of major disruptions that it blamed on bad weather and air traffic control issues. The company and the pilots union said the...
LONDON (AP) — British police have announced they will not take any action against Prince Andrew after a review prompted by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser who claims that he sexually assaulted her. Virginia Giuffre claims she was trafficked by...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Merck asked United States regulators Monday to authorise its pill against COVID-19 in what would add an entirely new and easy-to-use weapon to the world's arsenal against the pandemic. If cleared by the Food...
AP: Swamped with medical bills? The hospital that treated you may be able to help. Whether you learn about this before those bills wind up in debt collections is another matter. Medical bills often represent large, unexpected shocks that can...
UNITED STATES AP: Facebook, in the aftermath of damning testimony that its platforms harm children, will be introducing several features, including prompting teens to take a break using its photo-sharing app Instagram, and “nudging” teens if they...
BOSTON (AP): A former employee of a Massachusetts bank in the United States pleaded guilty on Friday to her role in two separate fraud schemes, federal prosecutors said. Rushell Harris, 32, of Nantucket, pleaded guilty in US District Court in...
Caribbean warned vulnerability to food production is stark GEORGETOWN (CMC): A senior official of the Caribbean Community Secretariat has warned that the current vulnerability of the food production in the region is stark, as collectively the...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — In one of the largest liberations of kidnap victims, at least 187 people including babies have been freed in the country's troubled north, police announced. Nigerian security forces rescued the hostages from a forest...
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Indian police on Saturday arrested the son of a junior minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government as a suspect days after nine people were killed in a deadly escalation of yearlong demonstrations by tens...
ROME (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators marched down Rome's famous Via Veneto and other streets on Saturday, some smashing their way into a union office and clashing with police as they protested Italy's new “Green Pass”...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — When Russian regulators approved the country's own coronavirus vaccine, it was a moment of national pride, and the Pavlov family was among those who rushed to take the injection. But international health...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African travel agencies report a surge in reservations for travel to and from Britain on Friday ahead of the country being removed from the United Kingdom's COVID-19 red list next week. Some companies said they...
MOSCOW, Russia (AP): Journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their fight for freedom of expression in countries where reporters have faced persistent attacks, harassment...
Jobs held for 45 days for workers non-compliant with jabs HARTFORD: Connecticut officials say 671 state employees remained non-compliant with Governor Ned Lamont's vaccination and testing mandate as of Thursday, and some of those workers could be...
