MIAMI (AP) — Norwegian Cruise Line is challenging a new Florida law that prevents cruise companies from requiring passengers to show proof of vaccination against the COVID-19 virus. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Miami federal court, contends...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The president of Guatemala has banned most protests for two weeks, arguing they have been spreading the coronavirus. President Alejandro Giammattei's Cabinet approved the decree on Tuesday and it will go into effect...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Pressure is mounting on the man who claims to be Haiti’s leader in the aftermath of the president’s assassination, with at least two other officials claiming to be the legitimate head of government amid a race to fill the...
HAVANA (AP): Cuban police are out in force on the country’s streets as the president is accusing Cuban Americans of using social media to spur a rare outpouring of weekend protests over high prices and food shortages. The demonstrations in several...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): The death toll climbed to 72 from rioting in South Africa on Tuesday, with many people trampled to death during looting at stores, as police and the military fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to try to halt the unrest set...
NASIRIYAH (AP): The death toll from a fire that swept through a hospital coronavirus ward climbed to 92 on Tuesday, Iraq’s state news agency reported, as anguished relatives buried their loved ones and lashed out at the government over the country’...
CASTRIES (CMC): Political parties contesting the July 26 general election here have agreed to a “complete ban” on all islandwide motorcades. A statement issued by the Royal St Lucia Police Force noted that Police Commissioner Milton Desir met with...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The US State Department announced Monday it is revoking the travel visas of 100 legislators, judges, and prosecutors who aided the regime of President Daniel Ortega. The department said the visa cancellations came in...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Coronavirus infections in the Netherlands skyrocketed by more than 500% over the last week, the country's public health institute reported Tuesday. The surge follows the scrapping of almost all remaining...
NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AP) — The death toll from a fire that swept through a hospital coronavirus ward in Iraq climbed to 92 on Tuesday as anguished relatives buried their loved ones and lashed out at the government over the country's second...
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers voted Tuesday to support a contentious cut to the United Kingdom's foreign aid budget, a move that has slashed billions from programmes helping some of the world's poorest people. The decision came in a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States regulators on Monday added a new warning to Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine about links to a rare and potentially dangerous neurological reaction, but said it's not entirely clear the shot...
LONDON (AP) — After Dr Ifeanyi Nsofor and his wife received two doses of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine in Nigeria, they assumed they would be free to travel this summer to a European destination of their choice. They were wrong...
ROSEAU (CMC): A High Court judge on Monday granted India-born Antigua and Barbuda citizen Mehul Choksi EC$10,000 (one EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) bail so as to allow him to travel to Antigua and Barbuda for medical treatment Choksi, 62, who has been...
Firefighters were working in extreme temperatures across the US West and struggling to contain wildfires, the largest burning in California and Oregon, as another heat wave baked the region, straining power grids. The largest wildfire of the year...
HAVANA (AP): Large contingents of Cuban police patrolled the capital Havana on Monday following protests around the island against food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis. Cuba’s president said the demonstrations were stirred up...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister Gaston Browne, says he does not favour any military presence in Haiti as the French-speaking member country continues its investigation into the assassination...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves said yesterday that he is not optimistic that elections will be held in Haiti in September as the region continues to react to the assassination of President Jovenel...
LONDON (AP) — Top officials at the World Health Organization say there's not enough evidence to show that third doses of coronavirus vaccines are needed and appealed Monday for the scarce shots to be shared with poor countries that have...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Six people have been killed and 219 arrested amid escalating violence during rioting that broke out following the imprisonment of South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma, police said Monday. Army soldiers will be...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The latest suspect detained amid the search for the masterminds and assassins in the killing of President Jovenel Moïse is a Haitian in his 60s living in Florida who identifies himself as a doctor and has...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Hundreds of Haitians sought solace in prayer at Sunday church services as a political power struggle threatened to further destabilise their fragile country after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Roman...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Violent rioting has erupted in two South African provinces against the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma, with supporters blocking roads and looting shops. At least 62 people were arrested, South Africa police said on...
Thrill-seeking billionaire Richard Branson strapped in and set off Sunday on his boldest adventure yet — a bid to reach space aboard his own winged rocket ship. A successful flight would vault the nearly 71-year-old Branson past fellow...
Local school boards around the United States are increasingly becoming cauldrons of anger and political division. They are boiling with disputes over such issues as COVID-19 mask rules, the treatment of transgender students and how to teach the...
