ATAMI, Japan (AP) — Rescue workers dug through sludge and debris Monday looking for dozens of people who may be trapped after a torrent of mud, trees and rocks ripped with a roar through a Japanese seaside resort town, killing at least four...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Monday that his government plans to scrap laws requiring face masks and social distancing later this month, though he acknowledged that lifting the restrictions will drive surging...
HAVANA (AP) — Tropical Storm Elsa swept along Cuba's southern coast early Monday, and forecasters said it could make landfall on the island's central shore by mid-afternoon. By Sunday, Cuban officials had evacuated 180,000 people as a...
SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) — Three victims have been found dead in the rubble of a collapsed condominium as crews resumed their search following the demolition of the remaining part of the building. The victims were recovered Monday morning...
TIJUANA, México (AP) Crowding and unsanitary conditions are getting worse at informal camps set up in northern Mexico by asylum seekers waiting to make asylum claims in the United States. US President Joe Biden has abandoned some of former...
WASHINGTON DC, ANI American cyber officials are now tracking a major new ransomware attack that has hit the networks of at least 200 companies in the United States. This attack is believed to be operated from Eastern Europe or Russia. CNN reported...
LUSAKA (AP): African leaders have gathered with Zambians to attend a memorial service Friday for Kenneth Kaunda, the nation’s founding president and champion of African nationalism. The presidents of Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe flew...
Alabama teenager donates his hair for children with cancer Kieran Moïse’s afro was a splendid 19 inches, a huge part of his personality. But after six years of growth, the 17-year-old Alabamian knew that he and his hair would soon be parted: He...
BAGHDAD (AP) — A widespread power outage hit Iraq on Friday as temperatures reached scorching levels, affecting millions of Iraqis, including those in affluent areas in the capital of Baghdad and stirring concerns of widespread unrest. Iraq...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden came up well short on his goal of delivering 80 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to the rest of the world by the end of June as a host of logistical and regulatory hurdles slowed the pace of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called for bipartisan action on a pathway to citizenship for some migrants during a naturalisation ceremony Friday at the White House in which he celebrated the contributions immigrants have made to the...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Friday crossed the grim milestone of more than 400,000 people lost to the coronavirus, a number that though massive is still thought to be a vast undercount because of a lack of testing and reporting. More than half...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions, and deaths are increasing. “The speed and scale of Africa's third wave are like...
GENEVA - The head of the World Health Organization says the world is in “a very dangerous period” of the COVID-19 pandemic, noting the more contagious delta variant is identified in nearly 100 countries. At a press briefing on...
BEIJING (AP): Chinese President Xi Jinping warned on Thursday that anyone who tries to bully China “will face broken heads and bloodshed”, in a defiant speech hailing the country’s rise that elicited loud cheers from a carefully chosen crowd at a...
NEW YORK (AP): Donald Trump’s company and its long-time finance chief were charged on Thursday in what prosecutors called a “sweeping and audacious” tax fraud scheme in which the executive collected more than $1.7 million in off-the-books...
SURFSIDE, Florida (AP): President Joe Biden drew on his own experiences with grief and loss to comfort families affected by the Florida condo collapse, telling them to “never give up hope” even as the search for survivors paused early Thursday, a...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): There will be no public holidays during the month of August this year because, as it did in 2020, parliament is set to approve a bill that will cancel the two days from the Bank Holidays Act. “Notwithstanding the Bank Holidays...
The latest alarming coronavirus variant is exploiting low global vaccination rates and a rush to ease pandemic restrictions, adding new urgency to the drive to get more shots in arms and slow its supercharged spread. The vaccines most used in...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials in St Vincent and the Grenadines warned people to prepare for possible evacuations as the tiny islands hit recently by massive volcanic eruptions prepare for potential flooding and landslides from...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The African Union special envoy tasked with leading efforts to procure COVID-19 vaccines for the continent is blasting Europe as Africa struggles amid a crushing third surge of infections, saying Thursday that “not...
WASHINGTON (AP): Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defence secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern US military was unravelled by the long and costly Iraq war, died Tuesday. He was...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated top officials for failures in coronavirus prevention that caused a “great crisis,” using strong language that raised the specter of a mass outbreak in a country that would be scarcely...
CRANBROOK, British Columbia (AP): A Canadian Indigenous group said Wednesday a search using ground-penetrating radar has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site near a former Catholic Church-run residential school that housed...
PHILADELPHIA (AP): Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison yesterday in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian once known as “America’s Dad,” ruling that the prosecutor who...
