JERUSALEM (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a midnight deadline on Tuesday to put together a new coalition government — or be looking at the possibility of leading his Likud party into the opposition for the first time in 12...
MEXICO CITY (AP): The death toll from the collapse of an overpass on the Mexico City metro rose to 24 Tuesday as crews untangled train carriages from the steel and concrete wreckage that fell on to a roadway. Another 77 people were injured when the...
GEORGETOWN, (CMC): A High Court judge has sentenced a former soldier, Corwyn Arthur, to jail for 15 years after he confessed to stabbing the husband of his ex-lover in 2018. Justice Sandil Kissoon imposed the sentence on Arthur at the Demerara...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorise Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for youngsters ages 12 to 15 by next week, according to a federal official and a person familiar with the process, setting...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An elevated section of the Mexico City metro collapsed and sent the train plunging toward a busy boulevard late Monday, killing at least 23 people and injuring at least 79, city officials said. Rescuers found four bodies...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): The Bahamas marked World Press Freedom Day on Monday with the government releasing a statement on the Freedom of Information Act, and introducing the first freedom of information commissioner and his deputy. Attorney General...
SAN DIEGO (AP): The Biden administration said on Monday that four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump’s presidency will be reunited in the United States this week in what Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro...
SAN JUAN, (AP): A federal judge on Monday ordered Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo held without bail after he was charged in the death of his 27-year-old pregnant lover whose body was found in a lagoon. Verdejo is charged with kidnapping and...
KINGSTOWN, (CMC): One of the scientists monitoring the La Soufriere volcano said on Monday that while there has been little seismic activity at the volcano in recent days, “we are not ready to say that the volcano has gone back to sleep as yet”....
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo has declared an end to the latest Ebola outbreak that killed six people in its east. Congo's Minister of Public Health, Dr Jean-Jacques Mbungani, on Monday announced the end of the outbreak that began February...
The United States set another record for the number of air travellers since the pandemic set in, although passenger numbers remain far below 2019 levels. Nearly 1.67 million people were screened at US airport checkpoints on Sunday, according to the...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark on Monday removed the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shot from its vaccination programme to investigate reports of rare but potentially dangerous blood clots. Denmark, which has been very...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – The St Vincent and the Grenadines Government says it has ordered 50,000 doses of the Russia-developed Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine as nationals continue to refuse to take the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot to help curb the...
BRUSSELS (AP) — In an announcement sure to be welcomed by travellers worldwide, EU officials on Monday proposed easing restrictions on visiting the 27-nation bloc as vaccination campaigns across the continent gather speed. Travel to the...
GENEVA (AP) — United States biotech company Moderna will provide up to 500 million doses for the World Health Organization-backed programme to ship coronavirus vaccines to needy people in low and middle-income countries, but shipments won...
MADRID (AP): Two young Senegalese men met on a Europe-bound migrant boat in 2006, a year that saw a record influx of Africans to Spain’s Canary Islands. Since then, one died of a heart attack running away from the Spanish police and the other is...
NEW DELHI (AP): With Indian hospitals struggling to secure a steady supply of oxygen, and more COVID-19 patients dying amid the shortages, a court in New Delhi said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver the life-...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh says that the country’s vaccination programme will resume today. In making the announcement on Saturday during a virtual media briefing, Deyalsingh said that in addition to healthcare workers...
BERLIN (AP) — At least 93 police officers were injured and 354 protesters were detained after traditional May Day rallies in Berlin turned violent, the city's top security official said Sunday. More than 20 different rallies took place in...
NEW DELHI (AP) — With Indian hospitals struggling to secure a steady supply of oxygen, and more COVID-19 patients dying amid the shortages, a court in New Delhi said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver the...
LONDON (AP) — Britain rushed to increase aid for India's teetering healthcare system on Sunday, promising more ventilators and expert advice as doctors grapple with a surge in coronavirus infections that is killing thousands of people a...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Kidnappers in Haiti have released five priests, two nuns and two other people who had been held for nearly three weeks, Roman Catholic authorities said Friday. The France-based Society of Priests of St James, which runs...
LONDON (AP): European Union (EU) regulators are accusing Apple of violating the bloc’s antitrust laws, alleging that the company distorts competition for music streaming through rules for its App Store. The EU’s executive Commission said Friday it...
EINDHOVEN (AP): Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers’ new home is a 94-square metre (1,011-square foot) two-bedroom bungalow that resembles a boulder with windows. The curving lines of its gray concrete walls look and feel natural. But they are actually...
