BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the World Trade Organization said Thursday it is of paramount importance to diversify vaccine manufacturing and to have more production taking place in Africa and Latin America to contain the pandemic. On the eve...
MIAMI (AP) — A judge in Colombia has sentenced three Venezuelan men to six years in prison for helping organise an ill-conceived plot to remove President Nicolás Maduro involving former American Green Berets. The sentence handed down...
BRUSSELS — The European Union's executive arm has signed a third vaccine contract with Pfizer and BioNTech through 2023 for an additional 1.8 billion doses of their COVID-19 shots. The European Commission says the deal will allow the...
BRUSSELS (AP): The European Union (EU) took a step towards relaxing travel rules for tourists from outside the 27-nation bloc on Wednesday when EU ambassadors agreed on measures to allow in fully vaccinated visitors. The ambassadors also agreed to...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says it’s gravely concerned by the recent escalation in violence between the Israelis and Palestinians and supports calls for an immediate ceasefire. In a statement issued yesterday, the 15-member Caribbean bloc...
TOKYO (AP): Confronted in Japan with some of the strongest medical-community opposition yet to the Tokyo Olympics, IOC President Thomas Bach offered on Wednesday to have added medical personnel available to help out when the Games open in just over...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Wednesday to press ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, pushing back against calls from the United States to wind down the operation that has left...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Wednesday reported more coronavirus deaths in a single day than any other country at any time during the pandemic, while infections continued to spread through vast rural areas with weak health systems. The Health...
Blantyre, Malawi (AP) — Malawi has burned nearly 20,000 doses of expired AstraZeneca vaccines, defying calls not to do so from the World Health Organization and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Malawi's Health...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago government Tuesday said it is moving to ensure that the country benefits from the decision of the United States to share an additional 20 million doses of coronavirus (COVID-19) virus within the world in...
GAZA CITY (AP): Suzy Ishkontana hardly speaks or eats. It’s been two days since the seven-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble of what was once her family’s home, destroyed amid a barrage of Israeli airstrikes. She spent hours buried in the...
GAZA CITY (AP): Palestinians across Israel and the occupied territories went on strike in a rare collective protest Tuesday as Israeli missiles toppled a building in Gaza and militants in the Hamas-ruled territory fired dozens of rockets that...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico mounted a final push Tuesday to get all of the country's three million school teachers vaccinated so it can reopen schools, perhaps by the second half of June. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian lawmakers have voted to dismiss the health minister who has faced criticism for the slow pace of the nation's coronavirus vaccination effort. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal held Health Minister Maksym Stepanov...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's total virus cases since the pandemic began swept past 25 million on Tuesday as the country registered more than 260,000 new cases and a record 4,329 fatalities in the past 24 hours. The numbers continue a trend of...
NEW DELHI — The Serum Institute of India says it hopes to start delivering coronavirus vaccine doses to the World Health Organization-backed effort known as COVAX and to other countries by the end of the year, which will significantly set...
LONDON (AP) — Ireland's health system was still struggling to restore its computers and treat patients on Tuesday, four days after it shut down its entire IT system in response to a cyberattack. Thousands of diagnostic appointments,...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden said on Monday that the US will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world in the coming six weeks as domestic demand for shots drops and global disparities in distribution have...
GAZA CITY (AP): The Israeli military unleashed another heavy wave of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip yesterday, saying it destroyed militant tunnels and the homes of nine Hamas commanders. International diplomacy to end the weeklong war that has...
BENGALURU (AP): For the first time in months, Izhaar Hussain Shaikh is feeling somewhat optimistic. The 30-year-old ambulance driver in India’s metropolis of Mumbai has been working tirelessly ever since the city became the epicentre of another...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that forces death row inmates, for now, to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad in hopes the state can restart...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world in the coming six weeks as domestic demand for shots drops and global disparities in...
NEW YORK (AP) — Vaccinated New Yorkers can ditch their masks, even indoors, the New York City Marathon is coming back and Radio City Music Hall will reopen to vaccinated audiences, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday in a flurry of...
NEW DELHI (AP) — A powerful cyclone roaring in the Arabian Sea was moving toward India's western coast on Monday as authorities tried to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people and suspended COVID-19 vaccinations in one state. Cyclone...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union will redouble its efforts to end the upsurge in violence between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants, and seek progress during a special meeting of its foreign ministers Tuesday, the bloc said....
