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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram suffer worldwide outage

Published:Monday | October 4, 2021 | 11:46 AM

Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were down in parts of the world on Monday. The company said it was “aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app” and it was working on restoring access. The company...

UK eases travel rules but upsets nations not on list

Published:Monday | October 4, 2021 | 10:09 AM

LONDON (AP) — Simplified international travel rules took effect Monday in the United Kingdom, easing quarantine and testing requirements for fully vaccinated travellers from more than 50 countries, and the Conservative government vowed it...

COVID vaccine mandate takes effect for NYC teachers, staff

Published:Monday | October 4, 2021 | 9:39 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City teachers and other school staff members were all supposed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when the bell rang Monday morning in one of the first school district mandates in the country requiring employees to be...

Israel tightens COVID ‘green pass’ rules, sparking protest

Published:Sunday | October 3, 2021 | 5:55 PM

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel restricted its COVID Green Pass on Sunday to allow only those who have received a vaccine booster dose or recently recuperated from coronavirus to enter indoor venues. The new criteria mean that nearly two million...

Thousands in Brazil protest Bolsonaro, seek his impeachment over pandemic

Published:Sunday | October 3, 2021 | 4:30 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With Brazil's presidential election one year away, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and dozens of other cities around the country to protest President Jair Bolsonaro and...

Distribution problems, hesitancy slow Uganda vaccination bid

Published:Sunday | October 3, 2021 | 12:21 PM

GULU, Uganda (AP) — The light bulb hanging from the ceiling flickered on and off, infuriating the technician in this remote Ugandan town as he checked the refrigerators filled with vaccine doses to confirm they were still working. If the...

BRAZIL | Thousands in Brazil protest Bolsonaro, seek his impeachment

Published:Sunday | October 3, 2021 | 12:08 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): With Brazil's presidential election one year away, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and dozens of other cities around the country to protest President Jair Bolsonaro and call for...

UNITED STATES | Alaska allows hospitals to ration care amid COVID spike

Published:Sunday | October 3, 2021 | 12:08 AM

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP): Alaska on Saturday activated emergency crisis protocols that allow 20 medical facilities to ration care if needed as the state recorded the nation's worst COVID-19 diagnosis rates in recent days, straining the state's...

UNITED STATES | 'Everybody is frustrated,' Biden says as his agenda stalls

Published:Sunday | October 3, 2021 | 12:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden on Saturday acknowledged frustrations as Democrats strain to rescue a scaled-back version of his US$3.5 trillion government-overhaul plan and salvage a related public works bill after frantic negotiations...

Trump asks US judge to force Twitter to restore his account

Published:Saturday | October 2, 2021 | 6:05 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to restore his account, which the company suspended in January following the deadly storming of the US Capitol. Trump's...

UK extends truck driver visa programme as fuel crisis persists

Published:Saturday | October 2, 2021 | 5:40 PM

LONDON (AP) — The British government has extended an emergency visa programme for truck drivers as fuel shortages showed few signs of abating Saturday, particularly in London and the southeast of England. In an announcement late Friday, the...

Authorities: Body of missing Florida college student found

Published:Saturday | October 2, 2021 | 3:33 PM

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say they have found the body of a missing Florida college student who disappeared a week ago. Orange County Sheriff John Mina said Saturday that authorities found Miya Marcano's body near an apartment building....

COVID-19 deaths eclipse 700,000 in US as delta variant rages

Published:Saturday | October 2, 2021 | 10:08 AM

It's a milestone that by all accounts didn't have to happen this soon. The US death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 700,000 late Friday — a number greater than the population of Boston. The last 100,000 deaths occurred during a time when...

Wife of murdered deacon released, university student kidnapped

Published:Saturday | October 2, 2021 | 12:10 AM

The wife of the 60-year-old deacon of the First Baptist Church of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, who was shot and killed during her abduction by armed gunmen last Sunday, has been released after a ransom had been paid. The head of the pastoral college of...

Gov’t denies child dies after receiving COVID-19 vaccine

Published:Saturday | October 2, 2021 | 12:10 AM

Guyana on Friday denied social media reports that a child had died after receiving a Pfizer vaccine and denounced those bent on spreading propaganda. In a statement, the Ministry of Health said that it had taken note of the postings of a video “...

California pushes first US vaccine mandate for schoolchildren

Published:Saturday | October 2, 2021 | 12:10 AM

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the nation’s first coronavirus vaccination mandate for schoolchildren, requiring that all elementary through high school students get the shots once the vaccine gains final approval from the US...

COVID cases are falling, but US on the brink of 700,000 dead

Published:Friday | October 1, 2021 | 4:51 PM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A decline in COVID-19 cases across the United States over the past several weeks has given overwhelmed hospitals some relief, but administrators are bracing for yet another possible surge as cold weather drives...

California pushes 1st US vaccine mandate for schoolchildren

Published:Friday | October 1, 2021 | 1:56 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the nation's first coronavirus vaccination mandate for schoolchildren, requiring that all elementary through high school students get the shots once the vaccine...

Merck says experimental pill cuts worst effects of COVID-19

Published:Friday | October 1, 2021 | 10:12 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Merck said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalisations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials in the United States...

Nigeria’s president directs conditional end to Twitter ban

Published:Friday | October 1, 2021 | 10:07 AM

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says he has directed the lifting of the ban on Twitter's operations in Nigeria but only if certain conditions are met including Twitter's “positive” use and...

India announces COVID-19 tests and quarantine for Britons

Published:Friday | October 1, 2021 | 9:24 AM

NEW DELHI (AP) — India said Friday that British nationals arriving in the country will be subjected to COVID-19 tests and a 10-day mandatory quarantine, in response to the same measures imposed on Indians visiting the United Kingdom. India...

Police Service Commission crumbles as chairman resigns

Published:Friday | October 1, 2021 | 12:10 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The chairman of the beleaguered Police Service Commission (PSC) resigned on Thursday, amid controversy over the selection of the twin-island republic’s next top cop. A brief statement from the Office of the President indicated...

After 15 years in prison, man cleared in deaths of five kids

Published:Friday | October 1, 2021 | 12:10 AM

PONTIAC, Michigan (AP): Murder charges were dismissed Thursday against a man who spent 15 years in prison for the fire-related deaths of five children in suburban Detroit, the climax of an investigation that found misconduct by police and...

Police officer gets life for abducting, killing woman

Published:Friday | October 1, 2021 | 12:10 AM

LONDON (AP): A former London police officer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Thursday for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a woman he tricked into his car using his police identification and COVID-19 laws....

President declares prison emergency after 116 killed in riot

Published:Friday | October 1, 2021 | 12:06 AM

QUITO (AP): Ecuador’s president has declared a state of emergency in the prison system, following a battle among gang members in a coastal lockup that killed at least 116 people and injured 80, in what authorities say was the worst prison bloodbath...

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