In the weeks since a new Alzheimer’s drug was approved, hopeful patients have bombarded Dr Alireza Atri with calls and emails about a treatment that has sparked both excitement and scepticism. They want to know if the drug might be right for them....
PARIS (AP): Mainstream candidates delivered a stinging setback to France’s far right in regional elections on Sunday, thwarting its hopes of winning control of a region for the first time and slowing its momentum ahead of the presidential contest...
GEORGETOWN, (AP): Three crewmen were killed in Guyana when a vessel used to transport fuel exploded at a pier, police said. A police statement said security personnel heard a loud explosion late Saturday at the pier south of Georgetown and found a...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): Haiti was on Friday placed on a grey list of countries under increased monitoring to counter money laundering and terrorist financing. The other countries are Malta, the Philippines and South Sudan. The Financial Action Task...
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has reintroduced tough restrictions including a ban on alcohol sales and an extended nightly curfew as it fights a fast-increasing surge of COVID-19 cases. President Cyril Ramaphosa says the delta variant that was...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season was off Mexico's coast on Sunday afternoon, and forecasters warned that heavy rain could cause dangerous flash floods or mudslides over southwestern parts of the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $230 million to New York state to settle claims that the pharmaceutical giant helped fuel the opioid crisis, Attorney General Letitia James said on Saturday. The drugmaker also agreed to...
SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) — Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the death toll from the building collapse has moved up to nine as search and rescue efforts continue. She said one victim had died in the hospital, while workers had pulled...
ROME (AP) — Outdoor farm work under the afternoon sun on particularly hot days has been banned in a southern Italian region following the death of a migrant who fell ill while toiling in a field and collapsed. Governor Michele Emiliano, who...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A passenger was taken to hospital Friday night after jumping out of a moving plane at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. United Express flight 5365, operated by SkyWest, was pulling away from a gate...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season formed on Saturday and forecasters said it was growing stronger, potentially bringing heavy rainfall while advancing northwestward off the Mexican coast. The US National...
LONDON (AP) — United Kingdom Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who has led the country's response to the coronavirus, resigned Saturday, a day after apologising for breaching social distancing rules with an aide with whom he was allegedly...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — The first cruise ship to leave a United States port since the coronavirus pandemic brought the industry to a 15-month standstill is preparing to set sail with nearly all vaccinated passengers on board....
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations World Food Programme says southern Madagascar is in the throes of back-to-back droughts that are pushing 400,000 people toward starvation, and have already caused deaths from severe hunger. Lola Castro...
DENVER (AP) — Thousands of immigrant farm workers in Colorado will soon have state minimum wage, overtime and labour organising rights under a bill signed into law Friday by Democratic Governor Jared Polis. Polis also signed into law a...
SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) — The oceanfront condominium building that collapsed near Miami had “major structural damage” to a concrete slab below its pool deck that needed to be extensively repaired, according to a 2018 engineering...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) Executive Committee has ended its 168th Session with draft resolutions on key issues such as resilient health systems, equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, and a comprehensive...
CASTRIES, (CMC): St Lucia tourism officials Friday said the return of the cruise liner, Celebrity Millennium, to the island on Tuesday, sets the tone for the gradual reintroduction of cruise tourism here since the closure because of the COVID-19...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Police have detained a 27-year-old man in connection with the murder of his brother on Friday during a brawl in which their mother had been punched in the face. Police said that Quincy Reynolds is assisting their investigations...
BERLIN (AP): A man armed with a long knife killed an unspecified number of people and injured others in the southern city of Wuerzburg yesterday before being shot by police and arrested, German authorities said. It was unclear how many people were...
KYIV (AP): The dissident Belarusian journalist and his Russian girlfriend who were arrested after being pulled off a flight that was diverted to Minsk have been transferred from jail to house arrest – a move the country’s exiled opposition leader...
NAIROBI (AP): A police official in Kenya says 17 soldiers have died when the helicopter they were travelling in for a training exercise crashed in the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi. Six people with severe injuries were rescued from the scene in...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): A rapid resurgence of COVID-19 is slamming South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg, and threatens to overwhelm its hospitals. Johannesburg, a city of five million, and the surrounding Gauteng province account for about 60 per...
MOSCOW (AP): They tried grocery giveaways and lotteries for new cars and apartments. But an ambitious plan of vaccinating 30 million Russians by mid-June still has fallen short by a third. So now, many regional governments across the vast country...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Guyana has officially withdrawn the automatic six-month stay granted to Haitians on arrival in the country, revoking an earlier order that allowed nationals from the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to enter...
