LONDON (AP) — British government regulators on Friday authorised another coronavirus vaccine for use in the UK amid concerns about rising COVID-19 cases as a variant of the virus first identified in India spreads around the country. The...
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the government is taking “a very close look” at the possibility of vaccine passports for travel into and out of the United States. As head of the Department of...
GOMA (AP): Tens of thousands of people are fleeing the city of Goma in eastern Congo fearing another volcanic eruption by Mount Nyiragongo, which spewed lava near the city last week. Traffic was jammed and pedestrians streamed through the streets,...
LISBON (AP): European Union (EU) nations sketched out plans Thursday for new sanctions against Belarus, targeting economic sectors close to its authoritarian leader, as they sought to strike back at him for the diversion of a passenger jet to...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Former South African President Jacob Zuma accepted more than 700 bribes over the course of a decade before he was president, including cash payments from French arms company Thales, prosecutors alleged on the first day of Zuma’s...
KIGALI (AP): In a key speech on his visit to Rwanda, French President Emmanuel Macron said he recognises that France bears a heavy responsibility for the 1994 genocide in the central African country. Macron solemnly detailed how France had failed...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Minister of Health Nickolas Steele has confirmed that government is contemplating giving regional countries some of its COVID-19 vaccine stock that is close to expiration. Steele said Grenada has held discussions with some...
PARIS (AP) — Production of another potential vaccine against COVID-19 will begin within weeks, its developers Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline said Thursday as they launched a large trial of 35,000 adult volunteers in the United States, Asia,...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday accused the Biden administration of playing politics and shirking its responsibility in calling for a renewed investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that was first detected in China in late...
TOKYO (AP) — A physician representing a Japanese medical body warned Thursday that holding the postponed Tokyo Olympics in two months could lead to the spread of variants of the coronavirus. Dr Naoto Ueyama, chairman of the Japan Doctors...
KASINDI, Congo (AP) — Tens of thousands of people are fleeing the city of Goma in eastern Congo fearing another volcanic eruption by Mount Nyiragongo, which spewed lava near the city last week. Traffic was jammed and pedestrians streamed...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Two vaccines made by China's Sinopharm appear safe and effective against COVID-19, according to a study published in a medical journal. Scientists had been waiting for more details about the two vaccines, even...
KYIV (AP): Belarus’ authoritarian president lashed out on Wednesday at Europe for trying to “strangle” his country with sanctions over the diversion of a passenger jet, and he accused a dissident journalist arrested after the flight landed in Minsk...
WELLINGTON (AP): Samoa was plunged into a constitutional crisis Monday when the woman who won an election last month was locked out of Parliament and the previous leader claimed he remained in charge. The fast-moving events marked the latest twist...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered US intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese...
ALBANY, New York (AP) — Vaccinated kids aged 12 to 17 will have a chance to win a full ride to public universities and colleges in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. The governor said the state will raffle off 50 scholarships,...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union took on vaccine producer AstraZeneca in a Brussels court on Wednesday and accused the drugmaker of acting in bad faith by providing shots to other nations when it had promised them for urgent delivery to the...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Heavy rain and a high tide lashed parts of eastern India and neighbouring Bangladesh as a cyclone pushed ashore Wednesday in an area where more than 1.1 million people have evacuated during a devastating coronavirus surge....
BASSETERRE, St Kitts: Schools in St Kitts-Nevis were ordered closed for two weeks as the twin-island Federation and several other Caribbean countries reported increased cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) over the last 24 hours. The Ministry of...
GEORGETOWN: A 17-year-old youth is among seven people who have died over the last 24 hours as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Guyana health authorities reported on Tuesday. They said that the young man from Demerara-Mahaica died...
SAN DIEGO (AP): A growing number of public schools are using mascots, food trucks and prize giveaways to create a pep-rally atmosphere aimed at encouraging students to get vaccinated against the coronavirus before summer vacation. Districts from...
WASHINGTON (AP): The anniversary of George Floyd’s death was supposed to be a milestone moment, a time to mark passage of legislation to “root out systemic racism” in the criminal justice system, in the words of President Joe Biden. Instead, Floyd’...
BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders agreed Tuesday to donate at least 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to poorer nations by the end of the year as supplies steadily rise across Europe. Gathered in Brussels for a two-day summit, the 27 leaders...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says many American citizens holding recently expired US passports will be allowed to return home from abroad on that document until the end of the year. Citing delays in passport renewals caused by...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of people were evacuated Tuesday from low-lying areas of two Indian states and moved to cyclone shelters to escape a powerful storm with eyes on the eastern coast. Cyclone Yaas is set to turn into a...
