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Novavax: Large study finds COVID-19 shot about 90% effective

Published:Monday | June 14, 2021 | 9:36 AM

Vaccine maker Novavax said Monday its COVID-19 shot was highly effective against the disease and also protected against variants in a large study in the United States and Mexico, potentially offering the world yet another weapon against the virus...

Netanyahu’s historic 12-year rule ends

Published:Monday | June 14, 2021 | 12:07 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): Israel’s parliament yesterday narrowly approved a new coalition government, ending the historic 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sending the polarising leader into the opposition. Naftali Bennett, a former ally...

G-7 leaders agree on vaccines, China and taxing corporations

Published:Monday | June 14, 2021 | 12:07 AM

CARBIS BAY, England (AP): Leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) wealthy nations staked their claim on Sunday to leading the world out of the coronavirus pandemic and crisis, pledging more than one billion coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer nations,...

Biden invites queen to stay at White House

Published:Monday | June 14, 2021 | 12:07 AM

WINDSOR, England: US President Joe Biden says he has invited Queen Elizabeth II to stay at the White House. Biden and his wife, Jill, had tea with the 95-year-old queen at Windsor Castle on Sunday. The 78 year-old president says he felt a maternal...

Knesset approves new coalition, ending Netanyahu’s long rule

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2021 | 2:14 PM

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament approved a new coalition government that sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the opposition after a record 12 years in office and a political crisis that sparked four elections in two years.Naftali...

G-7 leaders agree on vaccines, China and taxing corporations

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2021 | 9:39 AM

CARBIS BAY, England (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations on Sunday pledged more than 1 billion coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer nations, vowed to help developing countries grow their economies while fighting climate change...

Biden urges G-7 leaders to call out, compete with China

Published:Saturday | June 12, 2021 | 10:21 AM

Leaders of the world's largest economies on Saturday unveiled an infrastructure plan for the developing world to compete with China's efforts, but the democracies didn't immediately agree on how to publicly call out Beijing, including...

Minister refuses to see unvaccinated people

Published:Saturday | June 12, 2021 | 12:08 AM

KINGSTOWN (CMC): Minister of Public Service, Consumer Affairs and Sports Frederick Stephenson announced on Thursday that he will not be seeing persons at his office, constituency office or home who are not fully vaccinated. In an announcement on...

Government to formally recognise Dr Walter Rodney

Published:Saturday | June 12, 2021 | 12:07 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government Thursday announced that it will honour prominent historian, political activist and academic, Dr Walter Rodney, nearly 41 years after he was assassinated here. Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs...

Museum to show Emancipation Proclamation to mark Juneteenth

Published:Saturday | June 12, 2021 | 12:06 AM

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP): The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield will mark Juneteenth – the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States – by displaying a rare signed copy of the Emancipation...

Teen who recorded George Floyd’s arrest, death wins Pulitzer nod

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 4:21 PM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The teenager who pulled out her cell phone and recorded the police restraint and death of George Floyd, helping to launch a global movement to protest racial injustice, was on Friday awarded a special citation by ...

J&J doses to be released, but many will be tossed

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 11:39 AM

United States regulators are allowing for the release of 10 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine from a troubled Baltimore factory, but material to make many more must be thrown out because of possible contamination, a...

Pharmacies, gas stations close due to shortages in Lebanon

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 10:00 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — Pharmacies across Lebanon shuttered their doors on Friday in protest of severe supply shortages, as motorists seeking fuel queued for hours outside petrol stations since the crack of dawn. The two-day strike called by...

WHO, UNICEF declare end of polio outbreak in the Philippines

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 9:42 AM

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A polio outbreak in the Philippines has ended, according to the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, which praised government efforts to fight the disease despite the coronavirus...

NY raises age to arrest juveniles, eases parole penalties

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 9:32 AM

ALBANY, NY (AP) — New Yorkers would avoid jail time for non-violent parole violations and children under age 12 could no longer be arrested as juveniles under bills that passed the state Legislature Thursday. The state Senate and...

Biden urges world leaders to share vaccines

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 12:10 AM

ST IVES, England (AP): President Joe Biden urged global leaders on Thursday to join him in sharing coronavirus vaccines with struggling nations around the world, after he promised the US would donate 500 million doses to help speed up the pandemic’...

Man gets four-month prison sentence for slapping Macron

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 12:10 AM

VALENCE (AP): A 28-year-old Frenchman who described himself as a right-wing or extreme-right “patriot” was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday for slapping President Emmanuel Macron in the face. Damien Tarel was also banned from ever...

Iran sends warships to Atlantic amid Venezuela concerns

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 12:10 AM

DUBAI (AP): An Iranian destroyer and support vessel are now sailing in the Atlantic Ocean in a rare mission far from the Islamic Republic, Iran’s state TV reported on Thursday, without offering the vessels’ final destination. The trip by the new...

Netanyahu lashes out as end of his era draws near

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 12:10 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): In what appear to be the final days of his historic 12-year rule, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not leaving the political stage quietly. The long-time leader is accusing his opponents of betraying their voters, and...

Wife of drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty to charges

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in the US and admitted that she helped her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire. Emma Coronel Aispuro, wearing a green...

Gov’t negotiates multimillion-dollar stimulus package

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 12:09 AM

ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The Grenada government says it has acquired a US$8.95-million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to use as a stimulus package for persons who have been marginalised by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The COVID-...

Speculation rife for early general election

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 12:08 AM

ST JOHN’S (CMC): Prime Minister Gaston Browne Thursday heightens speculation about another snap general election in Antigua and Barbuda after it emerged that Cabinet has instructed the supervisor of elections to be prepared to “conduct free and...

Country yet to decide on increasing retirement age

Published:Friday | June 11, 2021 | 12:08 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Trinidad and Tobago has as yet taken no firm decision on increasing the retirement age over a 10-year period from the current 60 years to 65 years of age, from the year 2025, Finance Minister Colm Imbert has said. Addressing...

CDC looking into reports of heart inflammation following vaccinations

Published:Thursday | June 10, 2021 | 4:39 PM

WASHINGTON — United States health officials are investigating what appears to be higher than expected reports of heart inflammation in male teens and young adults after they get a second dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. It's not...

Building collapse kills 11 after monsoon flooding in India

Published:Thursday | June 10, 2021 | 3:36 PM

NEW DELHI (AP) — A dilapidated building collapsed following heavy rainfall in the western Indian city of Mumbai, killing at least 11 people and injuring seven others, police said Thursday. Heavy monsoon rains during the day Wednesday had...

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