SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has told the World Health Organization it tested more than 30,000 people for the coronavirus through June 10 but has yet to find a single infection. The WHO said in a monitoring report Tuesday that North Korea's...
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 70% of Americans age 30 or older have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the White House said, even as President Joe Biden is set to fall short of reaching his goal of giving a shot to the...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president has threatened to order the arrest of Filipinos who refuse COVID-19 vaccination and told them to leave the country if they would not cooperate with efforts to end a public health emergency....
A seven-year-old Dallas girl whose mother was recently arrested in her death was stabbed over 30 times, according to a court document. Madison Petry died after being stabbed on Thursday. Troyshaye Mone Hall, 23, faces a capital murder charge in her...
JAMSOTI (AP): In Jamsoti, a village tucked deep inside India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, the common refrain among the villagers is that the coronavirus spreads only in cities. The deadly infection, they believe, does not exist in...
DUBAI (AP): Iran’s president-elect staked out a hard-line position Monday in his first remarks since his landslide election victory, rejecting the possibility of meeting with President Joe Biden or negotiating Tehran’s ballistic missile programme...
TORONTO (AP): Fully vaccinated Canadian citizens who test negative for COVID-19 will be exempt from two weeks of quarantine when returning to the country in early July, officials said on Monday. Canadians and permanent residents who return to...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Police say they have detained a 21-year-old man as they probe the alleged abduction of his 17-year-old girlfriend because she refused to delete her Facebook account. The police said that the teenager was also locked in a room at...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Prime Minister Gaston Browne has brushed aside concerns being raised by the main opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) over plans to extend the state of emergency (SOE) by a further three months. Parliament will convene today...
TORONTO (AP) — Fully vaccinated Canadians who test negative for COVID-19 will be exempt from two weeks of quarantine when returning to the country in early July, officials said Monday. Canadians and permanent residents who return to Canada...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to fall short of his commitment to shipping 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June because of regulatory and other hurdles, officials said as they announced new plans...
BERLIN (AP) — Thunderstorms brought a much-needed cool down to parts of Western Europe over the weekend as the continent sweltered under its first summer heat wave. Dozens of people were reported drowned as they sought relief from the heat....
JAMSOTI, India (AP) — In Jamsoti, a village tucked deep inside India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, the common refrain among the villagers is that the coronavirus spreads only in cities. The deadly infection, they believe, does...
ATLANTA (AP) — Claudette regained tropical storm status Monday morning as it neared the coast of the Carolinas less than two days after 13 people died — including eight children in a multi-vehicle crash — due to the effects of the...
COLOMBO (AP): The UN representative in Sri Lanka said the sinking of a container ship that caught fire while transporting chemicals off the capital Colombo, has caused “a significant damage to the planet” by releasing hazardous substances into...
LISBON, Portugal (AP): Portuguese authorities have confirmed suspicions that the new delta variant of the coronavirus is driving a spike in new cases in the Lisbon region. Portugal’s National Health Institute said on Sunday that the highly...
WINDHOEK (AP): A prominent Namibian traditional leader, Vekuii Rukoro, the paramount chief of the OvaHererero people who led international legal battles to bring Germany to pay reparations for its genocide in the southern African country, has died...
JERUSALEM (AP): The Palestinian Authority called off an agreement whereby Israel would transfer one million doses of coronavirus vaccines to it in exchange for a similar number later this year, hours after the deal was announced on Friday. The...
As the nation this week made Juneteenth a federal holiday, honouring when the last enslaved black people learned they were free, lawmakers are reviving calls to end a loophole in the Constitution that allowed another form of slavery – forced labour...
BRASILIA (AP): As Brazil hurtles toward an official COVID-19 death toll of 500,000 – second-highest in the world – science is on trial inside the country and the truth is up for grabs. With the milestone likely to be reached this weekend, Brazil’s...
MOSCOW (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised the outcome of his summit with US President Joe Biden and called him a shrewd negotiator. The two leaders concluded three hours of talks on Wednesday at an opulent villa facing Lake...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Supreme Court, though increasingly conservative in make-up, rejected the latest major Republican-led effort to kill the national healthcare law known as ‘Obamacare’ on Thursday, preserving insurance coverage for millions of...
LUSAKA (AP): Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and a champion of African nationalism who spearheaded the fights to end white minority rule across southern Africa, has died at the age of 97. Kaunda’s death was announced Thursday evening by...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says that mandatory COVID-19 vaccination can be ordered for private and public sector workers, and that the law allows for a person to be legally fired if they refuse to take the COVID-19...
GENEVA (AP): President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded their summit on Wednesday with an agreement to return their nations’ ambassadors to their posts in Washington and Moscow and a plan to begin work towards replacing the...
