MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's health officials have given a go-ahead to test a combination of the AstraZeneca coronavirus shot and the single-dose version of the domestically developed Sputnik V vaccine, according to the country's registry...
BERLIN (AP) — An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies in Germany killed at least one person Tuesday, with 16 injured and four still missing. Fire officials who tested the air said there did not appear to be a danger to...
NEW DELHI (AP): As coronavirus cases ravaged India this spring, Anil Sharma visited his 24-year-old son, Saurav, at a private hospital in northwest New Delhi every day for more than two months. In May, as India’s new COVID-19 cases broke global...
NEW YORK (AP): New York City will require all of its municipal workers – including teachers and police officers – to get coronavirus vaccines by mid-September or face weekly COVID-19 testing, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Monday. The rule is...
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Three children died after a fire swept through a house in Maraval, just outside of the capital on Monday morning, fire officials have confirmed. They said that the unidentified children were aged 17, six, and three...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Scores of people demonstrated outside the office of Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Monday, but the government remained resolute that it would not move away from its policy to get public servants vaccinated. The protestors, some...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moderna said Monday it plans to expand the size of its COVID-19 vaccine study in younger children to better detect rare side effects, such as a type of heart inflammation recently flagged by US health authorities. The...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will keep existing COVID-19 travel restrictions on international travel in place for now due to concerns about the surging infection rate because of the delta variant, according to a White House...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will require all of its municipal workers — including teachers and cops — to get coronavirus vaccines by mid-September or face weekly COVID-19 testing, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. The rule...
LONDON (AP) — Londoners were cleaning up Monday after torrential rain left homes, roads and several subway stations flooded, the second unseasonal inundation in as many weeks. The Met Office weather agency said 1.65 inches of rain —...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Troops surrounded Tunisia's parliament and blocked its Speaker from entering Monday after the president suspended the legislature and fired the prime minister following nationwide protests over the country's...
TERNATE, (AP): An Indonesian man with the coronavirus has boarded a domestic flight disguised as his wife, wearing a niqab covering his face and carrying fake IDs and a negative PCR test result. But the cover didn’t last long. The police say a...
WILMINGTON, Delaware: The United States is in an “unnecessary predicament” of soaring COVID-19 cases fuelled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent Delta variant, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert said on Sunday. “We’re going in the...
ST JOHN’S, (CMC): The chairman of the 15-member regional grouping, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), has sought to assure Haitians that the region stands in solidarity with the French-speaking CARICOM member state. In an address on Friday at the...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The Seismic Research Centre at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus, says that several tremors rocked areas in northwest Trinidad shortly after 3 a.m. (local time) on Sunday. The quake that occured off the...
BERLIN: German politicians were deeply divided on Sunday over a warning by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff that restrictions for unvaccinated people may be necessary if COVID-19 infection numbers reach new heights in the coming months....
KANO, (AP): Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. Church officials handed those children over to...
Although the pandemic disrupted family life across the United State since taking hold in spring 2020, some parents are grateful for one consequence: They're now opting to homeschool their children, even as schools plan to resume in-person...
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. Church officials handed those...
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Two coronavirus patients died at a hospital in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Sunday after a short circuit knocked out power at the facility's intensive care unit, the country's health minister said. The...
WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP) — The United States is in an “unnecessary predicament” of soaring COVID-19 cases fuelled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent delta variant, the nation's top infectious diseases expert said...
BERLIN (AP) — German politicians across the political spectrum on Sunday criticised a warning by Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff that restrictions for unvaccinated people may be necessary if COVID-19 infection numbers reach new...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations General Assembly approved its first-ever resolution on vision, calling for its 193 member nations to ensure access to eye care for everyone in their countries which would contribute to a global effort...
NEW YORK (AP) — When the text message popped up on his phone, Samuel Alfaro didn't want to believe it. It said his appointment with US immigration services about his application to join the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...
PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of people, including far-right activists and members of France's yellow vest movement, protested Saturday across the country against a bill requiring everyone to have a special virus pass to enter...
