NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rich countries' decisions to roll out COVID-19 booster shots while so many people across Africa remain unvaccinated “threaten the promise of a brighter tomorrow” for the continent, the Africa...
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden says he and his wife will get a COVID-19 booster shot, following their first two doses in December. The president told ABC's “Good Morning America” that it's “past time” for him...
BORMES-LES-MIMOSAS (AP): A wildfire near the French Riviera killed two people and was burning out of control Wednesday in the forests of the popular region, fuelled by wind and drought. Over 1,100 firefighters were battling the flames and thousands...
KABUL (AP): Taliban militants attacked protesters Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan who dared to take down their banner and replace it with the country’s flag, killing at least one person and fuelling fears about how the insurgents would govern this...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed changing how asylum claims are handled, aiming to reduce a huge backlog of cases from the US-Mexico border that has left people waiting years to find out whether they will be allowed...
LES CAYES (AP) : More injured victims from Haiti’s deadly weekend earthquake trickled in Wednesday into hospitals already overwhelmed with thousands of patients, while bodies are still being found in collapsed buildings five days after the disaster...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Educated young women, former US military translators and other Afghans most at-risk from the Taliban appealed to the Biden administration to get them on evacuation flights as the United States struggled on Wednesday to...
NEW YORK (AP) — United States health officials Wednesday announced plans to dispense COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and evidence that the vaccines' effectiveness is...
Tropical Depression Fred swirled over West Virginia early Wednesday and dumped heavy rain over the northeastern United States, threatening to unleash mudslides and flash floods in upstate New York after closing interstate highways in the lower...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban violently broke up a protest in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person as they quashed a rare public show of dissent. The militant group meanwhile met with former officials from...
WELLINGTON (AP) : New Zealand’s government took drastic action Tuesday by putting the entire nation into a strict lockdown for at least three days after finding a single case of coronavirus infection in the community. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...
KABUL (AP): The Taliban vowed on Tuesday to respect women’s rights, forgive those who fought them, and ensure Afghanistan does not become a haven for terrorists, as part of a publicity blitz aimed at reassuring world powers and a fearful...
CALLAHAN (AP): In a rural stretch of northeastern Florida where barely half the people have got a coronavirus shot, Roger West had no problem telling others he was “adamantly anti-vaccination”. The co-owner of the Westside Journal weekly newspaper...
LES CAYES (AP) : Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Grace forced a temporary halt Tuesday to the Haitian government’s response to the deadly weekend earthquake, feeding the growing anger and frustration among thousands who were left homeless. Grace...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Health activists in Africa have slammed Johnson & Johnson for exporting vaccines produced in South Africa to countries in Europe, which have already immunised large numbers of their people and have even donated...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban have agreed to allow “safe passage” from Afghanistan for civilians struggling to join a US-directed airlift from the capital, President Joe Biden's national security adviser said Tuesday, although...
LONDON — Britain's medical agency has approved the Moderna coronavirus vaccine for use in children ages 12 and over. It is the second COVID-19 shot authorised in the UK for those between ages 12 to 17, after the Pfizer vaccine. The...
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States health experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot, to ensure lasting protection against the...
KABUL (AP): Thousands of Afghans rushed into Kabul’s main airport on Monday, some so desperate to escape the Taliban that they held on to a military jet as it took off and plunged to their deaths. At least seven people died in the chaos, US...
(AP): Humanitarian aid is flowing into Haiti following Saturday’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake there and a death toll that has reached 1,297. However, the Caribbean nation’s political unrest, as well as an approaching tropical storm, is complicating...
Thousands of Afghans rushed into Kabul's main airport Monday, some so desperate to escape the Taliban that they held onto a military jet as it took off and plunged to their deaths. At least seven people died in the chaos as America's...
Tropical Depression Grace drenched earthquake-damaged Haiti on Monday, threatening to dump up to 15 inches of rain on a landscape where people are huddling in fields and searching for survivors. Tropical Storm Fred grew stronger as it closed in on...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning of tough days ahead with surging COVID-19 infections, the director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday the United States could decide in the next couple weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans rushed onto the tarmac of the capital's airport on Monday as thousands tried to flee the country after the Taliban seized power with stunning speed. Some clung to the side of a United States military...
KABUL (AP): Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country on Sunday, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signalling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan....
