Facebook said it will suspend former United States President Donald Trump's accounts for two years following its finding that he stoked violence ahead of the deadly January 6 insurrection. “At the end of this period, we will look to...
NEW YORK (AP) — Some researchers believe COVID-19 has derailed the fight against HIV, siphoning away health workers and other resources and setting back a US campaign to decimate the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Saturday marks the 40th anniversary...
Health authorities in the United States are trying to determine whether heart inflammation that can occur along with many types of infections could also be a rare side effect in teens and young adults after the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. An...
LONDON (AP) — The European Union unveiled plans Thursday for a digital ID wallet that residents could use to access services across the 27-nation bloc, part of a post-pandemic recovery strategy that involves accelerating the shift to an...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the United States would swiftly donate an initial allotment of 25 million doses of surplus vaccine overseas through the United Nations-backed COVAX programme, promising infusions for...
AL-HOL (AP): At the sprawling al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, children pass their days roaming the dirt roads, playing with mock swords and black banners in imitation of Islamic State group militants. Few can read or write. For some, the only...
Doctors are reporting improved survival in men with advanced prostate cancer from an experimental drug that delivers radiation directly to tumour cells. Few such drugs are approved now, but the approach may become a new way to treat patients with...
TEL AVIV (AP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents pushed on Thursday for a quick parliament vote to formally end his lengthy rule, hoping to head off any last-minute attempts to derail their newly announced coalition government. The...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — COVID-19 vaccine shipments have ground to “a near halt” in Africa while virus cases have spiked 20% over the last two weeks, the World Health Organization said Thursday, a bleak scenario for the continent...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities have confirmed that 136 students were abducted by gunmen in northern Nigeria earlier this week, including some as young as 5 years old, the school's owner said Thursday. Gunmen on motorcycles targeted...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization's top vaccines expert said Thursday that immunising children against COVID-19 is not a high priority from a WHO perspective, given the extremely limited global supply of doses. During a social...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to allocate 75% of unused COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing programme, the White House announced Thursday. The White House unveiled the...
Scientists have found clues that the world's leading COVID-19 vaccines offer lasting protection that could diminish the need for frequent booster shots, but they caution that more research is needed and that virus mutations are still a wild...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dangling everything from sports tickets to a free beer, President Joe Biden is looking for that extra something — anything — that will get people to roll up their sleeves for COVID-19 shots when the promise of a...
A federal election watchdog fined the publisher of the National Enquirer $187,500 for squelching the story of a former Playboy model who claimed she'd had an affair with former President Donald Trump. The Federal Election Commission fined A360...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP): The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, the latest calamity to strike one of the country’s vessels in recent years amid tensions with the West...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa F. Etienne, on Wednesday warned that the COVID-19 pandemic response in Haiti must be scaled up dramatically to cope with sharply escalating cases,...
JERUSALEM (AP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents announced they have reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, paving the way for the ouster of the long-time Israeli leader. The dramatic announcement by opposition leader Yair...
TULSA, OKLAHOMA (AP): An emotional President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in Tulsa, declaring Tuesday that he had “come to fill the silence” about one of the nation’s darkest – and...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The world's largest meat processing company is getting back online after production around the world was disrupted by a cyberattack just weeks after a similar incident shut down a United States oil pipeline....
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalise the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian court on Tuesday rejected a challenge to the federal government's draconian power to prevent most citizens from leaving the country so that they don't bring COVID-19 home. Australia is...
TORONTO — Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization says people who got the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for the first dose can be offered either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna for the second. The advice affects more than two million...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing countries have confirmed plans to restore 2.1 million barrels per day of crude production, balancing fears that continuing COVID-19 outbreaks in some countries will sap demand...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A ransomware attack on the world's largest meat company is disrupting production around the world just weeks after a similar incident shut down a United States oil pipeline. The Brazilian meat processor JBS SA...
