RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Known for its coastlines, mountains and the state that was 'first in flight,' North Carolina has also developed a more dubious reputation recently: a regional destination for adults who want to marry children...
CASTRIES: Prime Minister Philip Pierre on Wednesday night rolled out new COVID-19 measures, including a curfew, amid a significant spike in cases and an announcement that his administration would decriminalise protocol breaches. In an address to...
TOKYO (AP) : The Tokyo Olympics have ended, but it’s still vacation season in Japan, and many people are ignoring government pleas to avoid travel and stay away from bars and restaurants even as the coronavirus spikes at record levels. Prime...
WASHINGTON (AP) : Three thousand fresh US troops were rushing to Kabul on Friday in a temporary deployment to speed evacuation flights for some American diplomats and thousands of Afghans, as the Taliban pressed a lightning offensive that has...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) : The Taliban completed their sweep of Afghanistan’s south on Friday, taking four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that brought them closer to Kabul just weeks before the US is set to officially end its two-...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president is on a drive to convince people to send their kids back to school in September, and on Friday the government released some frightening figures on what the effects of the pandemic have been on...
TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government will soon require all air travellers and passengers on interprovincial trains to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said Friday that includes all commercial air travellers...
NEW YORK — United States health officials have acknowledged more than one million Americans got extra coronavirus vaccine doses before it was authorised for people with weakened immune systems. About 1.1 million people who received the two-...
LONDON (AP) — Police investigating Britain's first mass shooting in more than a decade — which left six dead, including the gunman — said Friday the motive was unclear but there were no immediate signs that the crime was an...
BELIZE CITY (AP) — Twenty-seven people aboard a Carnival cruise tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week, according to the Belize Tourism Board. The positive cases were among 26 crew members and...
HAVANA (AP) — Tropical depression Fred was slowly strengthening and could regain tropical storm status sometime on Friday, ahead of its projected track towards the Florida Keys on Saturday and southwest Florida on Sunday, forecasters said....
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): A police officer attached to the Valencia Criminal Investigations Department has been arrested after allegedly making threats to kill his wife and their two-year-old daughter. According to a statement from the Trinidad and...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Kenneth George disclosed Wednesday that the Ministry of Health is investigating the deaths of about two vaccinated people to determine if there was any link to the COVID-19 jab. Speaking at the...
(AP): The frequency of anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults — reported in the United States so far this year seems poised to surpass last year’s, despite months of political and social activism, according to a new report...
WELLINGTON (AP): New Zealand, which has completely stamped out the coronavirus, plans to cautiously reopen its borders to international travellers early next year, the government said on Thursday. Officials also said they would delay second shots...
LONDON (AP) — When a World Health Organization-led team travelled to China earlier this year to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official said he was worried about safety standards at a laboratory close to the seafood...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria plans to soon lift its ban on Twitter, the country's information minister said Wednesday, two months after authorities blocked the social network when a tweet by the president was deleted. Information...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Fred swept into the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, then weakened to a tropical depression after nightfall while dumping heavy rains that forecasters warned could cause dangerous flooding and...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California will become the first state in the nation to require all teachers and school staff to get vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing, as schools return from summer break amid growing concerns about the...
WASHINGTON — Dr Anthony Fauci says an additional COVID-19 booster shot will be recommended for previously vaccinated people with weakened immune systems. He told NBC's ”Today” show on Thursday that he expects the booster...
(CMC): The United States (US) on Wednesday announced the shipment of more than 836,000 does of the Pfizer vaccine to six Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries as part of its commitment to provide “safe and effective vaccines to as many people...
NEW YORK (AP): Reaction to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s resignation came swiftly Tuesday – in many instances as a sense of relief after a damaging investigation by the state attorney general that corroborated allegations that he sexually...
(AP): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged all pregnant women Wednesday to get the COVID-19 vaccine as hospitals in hotspots around the US see disturbing numbers of unvaccinated mothers-to-be seriously ill with the virus....
NAIROBI (AP): A militant leader in Ethiopia says his group has struck a military alliance with the Tigray forces now pressing toward the country’s capital, as the conflict that erupted in the Tigray region last year spreads into other parts of...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Nearly three years after the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled as unconstitutional, a law in Guyana, which makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear in a public place while dressed in...
