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Published:Sunday | July 18, 2021 | 12:52 AM

Health workers, elderly among the first group to be vaccinated in Haiti CMC – Thirty-eight Haitians on Friday became the first group of persons to be vaccinated against COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Under the supervision of the...

Assassinated president to be buried July 23

Published:Saturday | July 17, 2021 | 12:09 AM

PORT AU PRINCE (AP): The Haitian government yesterday announced that the assassinated president, Jovenel Moise, will be buried on July 23. It will be held in the city of Cap-Haïtien, north of the capital where the 53-year-old former head of state...

‘He was our eye’: Reuters photographer killed in Afghanistan

Published:Saturday | July 17, 2021 | 12:09 AM

LONDON (AP): A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Reuters news service was killed Friday as he chronicled fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban near a strategic border crossing amid the continuing withdrawal of US and NATO troops...

UK government plan to end virus orders

Published:Saturday | July 17, 2021 | 12:09 AM

LONDON (AP): The UK recorded more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time in six months Friday amid a warning from the British government’s top medical adviser that the number of people hospitalised with COVID-19 could hit “quite scary...

Chaos reigned in wake of Moïse’s death

Published:Saturday | July 17, 2021 | 12:09 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): The attackers raided the private compound of Haiti’s president before dawn, yelling “DEA operation!” and wielding high-calibre weapons. They tied up a maid and houseboy and ransacked Jovenel Moïse’s office and bedroom. When it...

Rescuers race to prevent more death from European floods

Published:Saturday | July 17, 2021 | 12:09 AM

BERLIN (AP): In one flooded German town, the ground collapsed under family homes. In another, floodwaters swept through an assisted living centre, killing 12. Rescue workers across Germany and Belgium rushed Friday to prevent more deaths from some...

‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’ burdens busy US hospitals

Published:Friday | July 16, 2021 | 4:56 PM

The COVID-19 comeback across the United States is putting pressure on hospitals at a time when some of them are busy just trying to catch up on surgeries and other procedures that were put on hold during the pandemic. With the highly contagious...

UK daily infections top 50,000 days before virus rules eased

Published:Friday | July 16, 2021 | 1:45 PM

LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom recorded more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases in one day Friday for the first time in six months, as the British government's top medical adviser warned that the number of people hospitalised with COVID-...

Ramaphosa vows army will return order to South Africa

Published:Friday | July 16, 2021 | 10:17 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Standing at the entrance to a looted mall and surrounded by soldiers, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed Friday to restore order to the country after a week of violence set off by the imprisonment of former...

Europe floods: Death toll over 120 as rescues continue

Published:Friday | July 16, 2021 | 9:26 AM

BERLIN (AP) — More than 120 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium, officials said Friday, as search and rescue operations continued for hundreds more still unaccounted for or in danger. Authorities...

Over 60 dead, dozens missing as severe floods strike Europe

Published:Friday | July 16, 2021 | 12:13 AM

BERLIN (AP): More than 60 people have died and dozens were missing Thursday as severe flooding in Germany and Belgium turned streams and streets into raging torrents that swept away cars and caused houses to collapse. Recent storms across parts of...

President lays some blame for protests on his gov’t

Published:Friday | July 16, 2021 | 12:13 AM

HAVANA (AP): Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel for the first time is offering some self-criticism while saying that government shortcomings in handling shortages and other problems played a role in this week’s protests. But, in a televised address...

Police reject reports implicating gov’t in slaying

Published:Friday | July 16, 2021 | 12:12 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Authorities in Haiti on Thursday forcefully pushed back against reports that current government officials were involved in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, calling them “a lie”. Léon Charles, head of Haiti’s...

25,000 troops deployed to quell riots, 117 dead

Published:Friday | July 16, 2021 | 12:12 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP): In one of the largest deployments of soldiers since the end of white minority rule, 25,000 South African troops began taking up positions Thursday to help quell weeklong riots sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob...

Gonsalves condemns efforts to crush Cuban Revolution

Published:Friday | July 16, 2021 | 12:12 AM

KINGSTOWN (CMC): The St Vincent and the Grenadines government says it rejects “completely the attempts by certain unprincipled forces” to reverse the Cuban Revolution and urged calm and peace in the Caribbean country following protests there last...

WHO chief says it was ‘premature’ to rule out COVID lab leak

Published:Thursday | July 15, 2021 | 4:59 PM

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak, and he said Thursday he is asking China to be more transparent as...

Spain’s top court rules pandemic lockdown unconstitutional

Published:Thursday | July 15, 2021 | 9:47 AM

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that a strict stay-at-home lockdown order the Spanish government issued under a state of emergency during the first wave of COVID-19 last year was unconstitutional....

More than 30 dead, dozens missing in heavy Europe floods

Published:Thursday | July 15, 2021 | 9:31 AM

BERLIN (AP) — More than 30 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighbouring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing buildings to...

Summer setback: COVID deaths, cases rising again globally

Published:Thursday | July 15, 2021 | 5:54 AM

COVID-19 deaths and cases are on the rise again globally in a dispiriting setback that is triggering another round of restrictions and dampening hopes for an almost normal summer of fun. The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that deaths...

Merkel brings message of stability to US on farewell visit

Published:Thursday | July 15, 2021 | 5:54 AM

BERLIN (AP): German Chancellor Angela Merkel left on Wednesday for Washington on what is likely to be her last official visit , carrying a bag full of issues to discuss with President Joe Biden and an overarching message for Berlin’s close ally:...

Police question presidential guards as assassination probe deepens

Published:Thursday | July 15, 2021 | 5:53 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Judicial police have questioned at last 21 presidential guards as Haitian authorities continue their investigations into the assassination of President Jovenel Moise one week ago at his private residence. The authorities have...

DOJ: California physician sold fake COVID-19 vaccine cards

Published:Wednesday | July 14, 2021 | 4:57 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A naturopathic physician in Northern California has been arrested and charged after federal prosecutors said she sold fake COVID-19 immunisation treatments and fraudulent vaccination cards that made it seem like customers...

Plan to vaccinate teens triggers large protests in Greece

Published:Wednesday | July 14, 2021 | 4:41 PM

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of anti-vaccine demonstrators gathered in Greece's two largest cities Wednesday to protest plans to make coronavirus vaccines available to children 15 and older. The protests took place outside parliament...

Summer setback: COVID deaths and cases rising again globally

Published:Wednesday | July 14, 2021 | 3:29 PM

COVID-19 deaths and cases are on the rise again globally in a dispiriting setback that is triggering another round of restrictions and dampening hopes for an almost normal summer of fun. The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that deaths...

South Africa combats unrest after ex-leader’s imprisonment

Published:Wednesday | July 14, 2021 | 1:36 PM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police and the army struggled to bring order Wednesday to areas rocked by weeklong unrest and days of looting sparked by the imprisonment last week of ex-President Jacob Zuma. More than 200 violent incidents...

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