AP: The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday defended the decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, stressing that increasing political pressure had nothing to do with the abrupt shift in...
LONDON (AP): Travellers in England were packing their bags, bartenders were polishing their glasses, and performers were warming up as Britain prepared Sunday for a major step out of lockdown — but with clouds of worry on the horizon. Excitement at...
Media demand Israel explain destruction of news offices News organisations demanded an explanation on Saturday for an Israeli airstrike that targeted and destroyed a Gaza City building housing the offices of The Associated Press (AP), broadcaster...
ROME (AP): Pope Francis added his voice Friday to the chorus of alarm about Italy’s falling population, calling for government policies that provide the necessary financial stability to encourage young people to stay in Italy and have families....
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Thousands of Palestinians grabbed children and belongings and fled their homes Friday as Israel barraged the northern Gaza Strip with tank fire and airstrikes, killing a family of six in their house and heavily damaging...
Gas shortages at the pumps have spread from the South, all but emptying stations in Washington, D.C., following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasolene pipeline. Though the pipeline operator paid a ransom,...
TOKYO (AP) Japan on Friday further expanded a coronavirus state of emergency from six areas, including Tokyo, to nine, as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga repeated his determination to hold the Olympics in just over two months. Japan has been...
LONDON (AP) — When London's Science Museum reopens next week, it will have some new artefact: empty vaccine vials, testing kits and other items collected during the pandemic, to be featured in a new COVID-19 display. Britain isn't...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC: The University of the West Indies (The UWI) yesterday announced that Professor Clive Landis will serve as the next principal of its Cave Hill Campus in Barbados. His appointment was confirmed at The UWI’s annual...
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to extend the mandate of the nearly 3,700-strong peacekeeping force in the disputed Abyei region on the Sudan-South Sudan border until November 15. It also asked Secretary-General Antonio...
JERUSALEM (AP): Israel on Thursday said it was massing troops along the Gaza frontier and calling up 9,000 reservists ahead of a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-ruled territory as the two bitter enemies plunged closer to all-out war. Egyptian...
WASHINGTON (AP): In a major step towards returning to pre-pandemic life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eased mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people on Thursday, allowing them to stop wearing masks outdoors in...
CLEMMONS, North Carolina (AP) — Gas pumps remained shrouded by plastic bags Thursday at thousands of service stations across more than a dozen US states, despite a pipeline company's claims of “substantial progress” in...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) —Australia has reached a supply agreement for 25 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in a deal that the government hopes will ensure all Australian adults have access to inoculation this year. The deal included...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday he was “anxious” about a rise in the UK of the coronavirus variant first identified in India after a closely monitored study of infections in England found the...
CARICOM heads of government agreed unanimously for Dr Carla Barnett, a national of Belize, to become the next secretary general. Barnett is the first woman and the first Belizean to be selected for the post. She will replace Ambassador Irwin...
WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans dumped GOP Rep. Liz Cheney from her House leadership post on Wednesday for her persistent repudiation of Donald Trump’s election falsehoods, underscoring the hold the defeated and twice-impeached former president retains...
As a lengthy, bitter fight over mask requirements for students neared its conclusion, the chairperson of a Florida school board announced that she would agree to lift a mandate that had been in place since September even though she preferred...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Wednesday pressed ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, killing as many as 10 senior Hamas military figures and toppling a pair of high-rise towers housing Hamas facilities in a series of...
CONCORD, New Hampshire (AP) — A woman has been accused of selling unapproved COVID-19 remedies over the Internet, the US attorney's office in New Hampshire said. Diana Daffin, 68, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was arrested Tuesday and...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge has ruled that there were aggravating factors in the death of George Floyd, paving the way for the possibility of a longer sentence for Derek Chauvin, according to an order made public...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes Wednesday as the most severe outbreak of violence since a 2014 war took on many hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict, with...
GENEVA (AP) — A panel of independent experts who reviewed the World Health Organization's response to the coronavirus pandemic says it should be granted “guaranteed rights of access” in countries to investigate emerging...
NEW DELHI (AP) — A potentially worrisome variant of the coronavirus detected in India may spread more easily. But the country is behind in doing the kind of testing needed to track it and understand it better. On Monday, the World Health...
AP: The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children...
