WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced new sanctions on Friday against Cuba's national revolutionary police and its top two officials as the US looks to increase pressure on the communist government following this month'...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department, in a reversal, says the Treasury Department must provide the House Ways and Means Committee former President Donald Trump's tax returns, apparently ending a long legal showdown over the records....
NEW YORK — New evidence showing the delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox has prompted United States health officials to consider changing advice on how the nation fights the coronavirus. Recommending masks for everyone and...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 100,000 children in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region could face the most extreme and life-threatening form of malnutrition in the next year, the United Nations children's agency warned on...
Hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been saved from the trash after United States regulators extended their expiration date for a second time, part of a nationwide effort to salvage expiring shots to battle the nation's summer...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan expanded a coronavirus state of emergency to four more areas in addition to Tokyo on Friday following record spikes in infections as the capital hosts the Olympics. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared an emergency in...
MIAMI (AP): Alan Reyes Picado fled Nicaragua by bus in the middle of the night, haunted by memories of government officials harassing him, throwing him in jail and then leaving him half naked in a dumpster. After crossing the Mexican-US border in...
ATHENS (AP): A heat wave scorched southeast Europe on Thursday, intensifying wildfires and sending residents flocking to the coast, public fountains and air-conditioned locations to find some relief. Temperatures rose above 40C (104F) in parts of...
TUNIS (AP): Tunisia’s president is proposing that hundreds of tycoons suspected of embezzlement reach a deal with the state to finance public hospitals, schools and development projects in poor regions, to avoid convictions. President Kais Saied...
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is asking states and localities to offer unvaccinated residents US$100 to get their COVID-19 shots. The cash reward for vaccination was one idea in Biden’s latest plan to boost lagging vaccination rates in many parts...
CASTRIES (CMC): Phillip Joseph Pierre was sworn in as the 12th prime minister of St Lucia, since independence in 1979, seeking the “divine intervention in fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the people of St Lucia”. Pierre, 66, an economist/...
NAIROBI (AP): Burundi’s government now says it will accept COVID-19 vaccines, becoming one of the last countries in the world to embrace them. But the health ministry says it will not take responsibility for any side effects they might cause....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced sweeping new pandemic requirements for millions of federal workers as he denounced an “American tragedy” of rising-yet-preventable deaths among unvaccinated US employees...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated. The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel, which launched one of...
LONDON (AP) — International governments and companies have pledged more than $4 billion to educate 175 million children around the world and prevent a generation's chances of being blighted by the coronavirus pandemic. The commitments...
LONDON (AP) — Fully vaccinated travellers from the United States and much of Europe will be able to enter Britain without quarantining starting next week, UK officials said Wednesday — a move welcomed by Britain's ailing travel...
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials sounded the alarm Thursday as Tokyo reported record-breaking coronavirus cases for the third-straight day with the Olympics well underway. Tokyo reported 3,865 new cases Thursday, up from 3,177 on Wednesday and...
Pierre invokes divine intervention at swearing-in CASTRIES (CMC): Phillip Joseph Pierre was on Wednesday sworn in as the 12th prime minister of St Lucia since independence in 1979 and invoked “divine intervention in fulfilling the hopes and...
WASHINGTON — The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine wanes slightly over time but it remains strongly protective for at least six months after the second dose, according to company data released Wednesday. The findings are one piece of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is strongly considering requiring federal employees to show proof they've been vaccinated against the coronavirus or otherwise submit to regular testing and wear a mask — a potentially major shift...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a major breakthrough for one of the world's last countries to embrace COVID-19 vaccines, Tanzania's president kicked off the nation's vaccination campaign Wednesday by publicly receiving a dose and urging...
CANTON, Georgia (AP): A man accused of killing eight people, mostly women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in four of the killings and was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison....
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have told the United States that its decades-old trade and economic embargo against Cuba has “run its course” and should now be lifted. In a July 26 letter sent to President Joe...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Trinidad and Tobago is marking the 31st anniversary of the failed coup attempt by a radical Muslim group, the Jamaat Al’Muslimeen, with President Paula Mae Weekes laying a wreath in remembrance of those who perished...
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC): Outgoing Prime Minister Allen Chastanet said the results of Monday’s general election that resulted in his United Workers Party (UWP) suffering a heavy defeat has come as a “shock,” but that he remains confident the...
