Moderna said Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12, a step that could put the shot on track to become the second option for that age group in the United States. With global vaccine supplies still tight, much of the...
HAMILTON: Bermuda tourism officials had double reason to celebrate over the weekend – the opening of a new luxury hotel in St George’s and the arrival of the first cruise ship in more than a year. As the St Regis Bermuda welcomed its first guests...
MADRID (AP): Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Monday that Spain is an ally of Morocco, and Madrid will defend both countries’ common interests at the European Union (EU), in remarks that came a week after bilateral relations dipped to a decades...
GOMA (AP): Torrents of lava poured into villages after dark in eastern Congo with little warning, leaving at least 15 people dead amid the chaos and destroying more than 500 homes, officials and survivors said on Sunday. The eruption of Mount...
BEIT HANOUN (AP): It took Ramez al-Masri three years to rebuild his home after it was destroyed in a 2014 Israeli offensive. When war returned to the area last week, it took just a few seconds for the house to be flattened again in an Israeli...
TOKYO (AP): Japan mobilised military doctors and nurses to give shots to elderly people in Tokyo and Osaka on Monday as the government desperately tries to accelerate its vaccination roll-out and curb coronavirus infections just two months before...
WASHINGTON (AP): A government watchdog says the Trump administration, under its practice of separating families at the border, forced migrant parents to leave the United States without their children, contradicting claims by officials that parents...
BRUSSELS (AP): Western outrage grew, and the European Union threatened more sanctions on Monday against Belarus over its forced diversion of a passenger jet to the capital of Minsk in order to arrest an opposition journalist in a dramatic gambit...
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States health officials and the State Department on Monday warned Americans against travel to Japan because of a surge in coronavirus cases in the country, which is preparing to host the Olympics in just two months....
NEW DELHI (AP) — Doctors in India are fighting a fatal fungal infection affecting COVID-19 patients or those who have recovered from the disease amid a coronavirus surge. The life-threatening condition, known as mucormycosis, is relatively...
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States President Joe Biden is doubling emergency spending to help communities prepare for hurricanes and other extreme weather events while launching a new effort at NASA to better understand and track the impacts of...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Residents searched for missing loved ones amid their destroyed homes on the outskirts of Congo's eastern city of Goma Monday, where light aftershocks were detected in the area following the eruption of a large...
Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, says the Government is committed to making 30,000 low-income housing solutions available over the next five years, giving all Jamaicans a chance to be in compliance with the law. Holness said the Government is also...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India crossed another grim milestone Monday with more than 300,000 people lost to the coronavirus, while a devastating surge of infections appeared to be easing in big cities but was swamping the poorer countryside. The...
BRUSSELS (AP) — It's crunch time for the European Commission in its legal battle with drugmaker AstraZeneca. At loggerheads for months with the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company it accuses of failing to deliver the promised number of...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP): Iran's hard-line parliament speaker has said a temporary deal between Tehran and international inspectors to preserve surveillance images taken at nuclear sites had ended, escalating tensions amid diplomatic efforts to save...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has issued a directive stating that sanctions will be instituted against officers and ranks who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19. According to Newssource Guyana, this was revealed in an...
BRUSSELS (AP): The European Parliament has warned China that it won’t ratify a long-awaited business investment deal as long as sanctions against European Union legislators remain in place. EU lawmakers adopted a resolution in which they condemned...
MANAGUA (AP): Nicaraguan national police raided offices of a prominent nongovernmental organisation and an independent news outlet Thursday – both linked to children of a former president – as the government of President Daniel Ortega continued to...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Are the Israeli airstrikes following us? If you’re in Gaza City these days, no matter who you are, that’s an easy thing to believe. No one knows where the next explosion will be, or when. Getting an hour’s notice from the...
LONDON (AP): Prince William and his brother Prince Harry have issued strongly worded statements criticising the BBC and British media for unethical practices after an investigation concluded that one of the broadcaster’s journalists used “deceitful...
BELMOPAN (CMC): The Belize government last week formally informed bond holders that it would not be able to make a scheduled US$7 million coupon payment to its international bondholders that was due on Thursday. Belize is looking to restructure a...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The US-based Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)) is predicting another above-normal Atlantic hurricane season. Forecasters are predicting a 60 per cent chance of an above-normal...
LAHORE (AP): The father of a British woman of Pakistani origin who was found dead at a home in the eastern city of Lahore said he was dissatisfied with a police probe into the murder, but investigators on Friday said they were on the right track....
NAYPYITAW (AP): The head of Myanmar’s military-appointed state election commission said Friday that his agency will consider dissolving Aung San Suu Kyi’s former ruling party for its alleged involvement in electoral fraud and have its leaders...
