Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has called for improved access to COVID-19 vaccines to be prioritised for developing countries. Speaking on Wednesday in Barbados at the UN trade conference UNCTAD15, she said that this was key to...
The United States is gearing up in case of a bad flu season on top of the continuing COVID-19 crisis, with a plea Thursday for Americans to get vaccinated against both. “I get it: We are all tired of talking about vaccines,” said Dr Rochelle...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — More than 130 countries have agreed on sweeping changes to how big global companies are taxed, including a 15% minimum corporate rate designed to deter multinationals from stashing profits in low-tax countries. The...
LONDON (AP) — Britain announced Friday that it will offer new vaccinations to thousands of people who volunteered for trials of the Novavax coronavirus vaccine, which hasn't yet been approved for use in any country. Around 15,000 people...
HAMILTON: Bermuda has recorded five more deaths from COVID-19, but active cases are down by almost half from last month’s peak of 1,612, health officials said. The lost lives brought the death toll from COVID-19 to 87 since March of last year. The...
Parents tired of worrying about classroom outbreaks and sick of telling their elementary school-age children no to sleepovers and family gatherings felt a wave of relief on Thursday when Pfizer asked the US government to authorise its COVID-19...
JERUSALEM (AP): A RULING by a local Israeli court in favour of a Jewish man who prayed quietly at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site has angered Muslim authorities, who denounced it on Thursday as a violation of the fragile status quo governing the...
QUETTA (AP): A powerful earthquake collapsed at least one coal mine and dozens of mud houses in southwest Pakistan early Thursday, killing at least 23 people as the death toll continued to creep higher. At least another 200 people were injured, an...
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake collapsed at least one coal mine and dozens of mud houses in southwest Pakistan early Thursday, killing at least 23 people as the death toll continued to creep higher. At least another 200 people...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Martine Moïse, the widow of Haiti’s assassinated president, Jovenel Moïse, travelled to her homeland to answer questions behind closed doors on Wednesday from a judge overseeing the murder case. Surrounded by heavy security,...
CAPE TOWN (AP): As South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, turns 90, recent racist graffiti on a portrait of the Nobel winner highlights the continuing relevance of his work for equality. Often hailed as the conscience of South...
LONDON (AP): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday endorsed the world’s first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa, in the hope that it will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic...
BELMOPAN (CMC): Belizean authorities on Wednesday condemned the “distressing occurrence” in the cases of violent crimes perpetrated against old men in the country. In a joint statement, the National Council on Ageing, Belize Ministry of Human...
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization recommended Wednesday that the world's first malaria vaccine should be given to children across Africa, in a move officials hope will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua said Tuesday it will get seven million doses of Cuban coronavirus vaccines over the next three months. Vice President Rosario Murillo did not say whether Cuba is donating or selling the vaccines to...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Foreign tourists won't be welcomed back to Australia until at least next year, the prime minister has said as he outlined plans for lifting some of the toughest and longest COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed...
PARIS (AP) — Governments must pour more money and resources into preserving the mental well-being of children and adolescents, the United Nation's child protection agency urged in a report Tuesday that sounded alarms about blows to mental...
LONDON (AP) — AstraZeneca, the drugmaker that developed one of the first COVID-19 vaccines, has asked the United States Food and Drug Administration to authorise the emergency use of a first-of-a-kind antibody treatment to prevent the disease...
PARIS (AP) — Victims of abuse within France's Catholic Church welcomed a historic turning point Tuesday after a new report estimated that 330,000 children in France were sexually abused over the past 70 years, providing the country's...
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian actor and a film director rocketed to space Tuesday on a mission to make the world's first movie in orbit, a project the Kremlin said will help burnish the nation's space glory. Actor Yulia Peresild and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to allow extra shots of its COVID-19 vaccine as the United States government moves toward expanding its booster campaign to millions more...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Monday scolded the international community for imposing a number of problems ranging from climate change to debt repayment on small island developing states (SIDS), as she...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday warned that the recovery from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic must be sustainable and inclusive, unveiling “an urgent four-point debt crisis action plan...
LONDON (AP) — British military personnel have begun delivering fuel to gas stations after a shortage of truck drivers disrupted supplies for more than a week, leading to long lines at the pumps as anxious drivers scrambled to fill their tanks...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union's drug regulator gave its backing Monday to administering booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 and older. The European Medicines Agency said the booster doses “may...
