NEW YORK — Pfizer has started testing its potential COVID-19 treatment as a preventive medicine aimed at warding off the virus if a close contact gets it. The drugmaker said Monday that it will study the pill it is developing in combination...
LONDON (AP) — Lines of cars formed at British gas stations for a fourth day on Monday, as the government mulled sending in the army to help ease the supply disruptions, triggered by a shortage of truck drivers. As unions called for emergency...
BERLIN (AP) — The party that narrowly beat outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc pushed Monday for a quick agreement on a coalition government amid concerns that Europe's biggest economy could be in for weeks of uncertainty...
REYKJAVIK (AP): Iceland has elected a female-majority parliament, a landmark for gender equality in the North Atlantic island nation, in a vote that saw centrist parties make the biggest gains. After all votes were counted on Sunday, female...
BANGKOK (AP): In his speech last week to open the UN General Assembly, Secretary General António Guterres bracketed Myanmar with Afghanistan and Ethiopia as nations where “peace and stability remain a distant dream”. He declared unwavering...
Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:03 PM
Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans' protection against the virus. How much the manufacturers stand to gain depends on how big the...
Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:12 AM
The Trinidad and Tobago government has hinted at the possibility of having public servants vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19), even as it maintained that it was not pushing for mandatory vaccination as a policy to curb the spread of the...
Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:11 AM
Venezuela on Friday reiterated a call for direct discussions with Guyana on the border dispute between the two countries, even as it described as “misrepresentations” Georgetown’s account of the row dating back to several decades. “Let us not...
Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:06 AM
The images – men on horseback with long reins, corralling Haitian asylum seekers trying to cross into the United States from Mexico – provoked an outcry. But to many Haitians and Black Americans, they are merely confirmation of a deeply held belief...
Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:06 AM
A veteran TV news executive says CNN anchor Chris Cuomo sexually harassed her by squeezing her buttocks at a party in 2005. Shelley Ross said in an opinion piece in The New York Times on Friday that Chris Cuomo, who had formerly reported to her at...
Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:06 AM
With cascading crises casting a pall over the proceedings at this year’s United Nations General Assembly, Slovakian President Zuzana Čaputová had this reminder on the first day of debate: “We cannot save our planet if we leave out the vulnerable:...
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — No migrants remained Friday at the Texas border encampment where almost 15,000 people — most of them Haitians — had converged just days earlier seeking asylum, local and federal officials said. It's a...
President Joe Biden on Friday urged those now eligible for boosters of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to get the added protection a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed the extra doses for millions of older or otherwise...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis cop convicted of murder in George Floyd's death intends to appeal his conviction and sentence, saying the judge abused his discretion or erred during several key points in the case,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Hospitals and nursing homes in New York are bracing for the possibility that a statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers could lead to staff shortages when it takes effect Monday. Doctors and nurses —...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed booster shots for millions of older or otherwise vulnerable Americans, opening a major new phase in the United States vaccination drive against COVID-19. CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky...
The inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution came into sharp focus on Thursday as many of the African countries whose populations have little to no access to the life-saving shots spoke at the UN’s annual meeting of world leaders. Some called for...
The Biden administration’s special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest of “inhumane” large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland as it is racked by civil strife and natural disaster, US officials said Thursday. Daniel Foote was...
KABUL (AP): One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A 12-year-old boy has gone to court in the Netherlands to get permission to receive a COVID-19 vaccine so he can visit his grandmother who is battling lung cancer, according to a written court ruling published...
The inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution came into sharp focus Thursday as many of the African countries whose populations have little to no access to the life-saving shots spoke at the United Nation's annual meeting of world leaders....
Published:Thursday | September 23, 2021 | 10:00 AM
LONDON — The pharmaceutical company Novavax and the Serum Institute of India say they've submitted an application to the World Health Organization for their coronavirus vaccine to be granted an emergency use listing. That would allow the...
The Biden administration's special envoy to Haiti has resigned, protesting “inhumane” large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland wracked by civil strife and natural disaster, US officials said Thursday. Daniel...
Published:Thursday | September 23, 2021 | 12:10 AM
NAIROBI (AP): Travellers and authorities from India and some African countries are furious – and confused – about Britain’s new COVID-19 travel rules, calling them discriminatory. The British government announced what it billed as a simplification...
The sight of United States Border Protection agents on horsebacks and using whips to round up Haitian migrants on the Texas border has prompted an outcry by Caribbean elected and others leaders to urge the Biden administration to develop a more...
