DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Tanzania has received its first batch of one million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States government. Tanzania had been among the few countries in Africa yet to receive vaccines or...
SYDNEY (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets of Sydney and other Australian cities on Saturday to protest lockdown restrictions amid another surge in cases, and police made several arrests after crowds broke through barriers and...
MIAMI (AP) — Pandemic restrictions on Florida-based cruise ships are no longer in place under a ruling Friday by a federal appeals court, while the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seek to fight a Florida lawsuit challenging the...
NEW DELHI (AP): Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rain hit parts of western India, killing more than 100 people, officials and news reports said Friday. More than 1,000 people trapped by floodwaters were rescued. The dead included...
MEXICO CITY (AP): The mainly female volunteers who fan out across Mexico to hunt for the bodies of murdered relatives are themselves increasingly being killed, putting to the test the government’s promise to help them in their quest for a final...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): All frontline government workers will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine, or get tested for the virus every two weeks at their own expense. Those who refuse to do either will have to remain off the job without pay. The...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): The casket carrying the body of former President Jovenel Moïse was draped with the Haitian flag and adorned with white flowers, as the private funeral service for the assassinated head of state took place Friday amid heavy...
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Jen Psaki says the United States has shipped 22 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine to other countries this week. The total was a weekly record as vaccines went to 23 countries. Psaki says the...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rain hit parts of western India, killing more than 100 people, officials and news reports said Friday. More than 1,000 people trapped by floodwaters were rescued. The dead...
MIAMI (AP) — Firefighters officially ended their search for bodies in the debris of the collapsed Surfside condo building on Friday, even as police and forensic specialists continue working to identify human remains. Miami-Dade Assistant Fire...
LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency on Friday recommended authorising Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 17, the first time the shot has been authorised for people under 18. The EU drug regulator said research in...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's COVID-19 vaccination campaign is regaining momentum after being disrupted earlier this month by a week of riots sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma, the country's acting health...
CAP-HAITIEN (AP): A priest told mourners at a memorial service Thursday for slain President Jovenel Moïse that too much blood is being shed in Haiti as authorities warned of more violence ahead of his funeral. The Rev Jean-Gilles Sem spoke to...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Biden administration announced new sanctions Thursday against a Cuban official and a government entity that it says was involved in human rights abuses during a government crackdown on protests on the island earlier this month...
BRUSSELS (AP): The European Union said Thursday it will donate more than 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to middle and low-income countries before the end of the year. That’s double the initial amount that the 27-nation bloc had planned to...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Former South African president Jacob Zuma was allowed to leave prison briefly yesterday to attend his brother’s funeral. Zuma is currently serving a 15-month sentence for defying an order from the Constitutional Court, the...
As the remaining rubble from the collapse of a 12-storey oceanfront condominium was cleared away Wednesday, a Florida judge said victims and families who suffered losses will get a minimum of $150 million in compensation initially. That sum...
TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo hit another six-month high in new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, one day before the Olympics begin, as worries grow of a worsening of infections during the Games. Thursday's 1,979 new cases are the highest since 2,044 were...
BEIJING (AP) — China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday. Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the National Health...
BRUSSELS — The European Union says it will donate more than 200 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to middle and low-income countries before the end of the year. That's double the initial amount the 27-nation bloc had planned to...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States (US) government has welcomed the appointment of a new prime minister in Haiti, and the efforts by the country’s political leadership to establish a new administration to chart a path forward following the...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): A South African firm will begin producing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first time that the shot will be produced in Africa, Pfizer announced on Wednesday. The Biovac Institute, based in Cape Town, will manufacture...
OSLO (AP): Two inmates took a pair of prison guards hostage on Wednesday at a Swedish penitentiary and are barricaded inside in what the country’s prison department called “a very dangerous situation”. The inmates abducted the prison officers after...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP): Gunmen in northwest Nigeria have released 100 kidnapped victims, many of them nursing mothers and children, who had been held captive for about six weeks. Police spokesman in Zamfara State, Mohammed Shehu, said on Wednesday...
NEW YORK (CMC): Several Haitian-American legislators and groups in New York have called on the Joe Biden administration to “create an easier pathway” for Haitians seeking political asylum in the United States. In their letter, the elected officials...
