NEW DELHI (AP) India’s crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of life-saving oxygen to critical levels and...
BANYUWANGI, Indonesia (AP) Indonesia’s military on Sunday officially said all 53 crew members from a submarine that sank and broke apart last week are dead, and that search teams had located the vessel’s wreckage on the ocean floor. The grim...
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis on Sunday decried as shameful the deaths of 130 migrants in the Mediterranean, saying they pleaded for two days for help for their overcrowded, foundering rubber dinghy in the sea off Libya but potential rescuers...
TOKYO (AP): Japan on Friday declared a state of emergency to curb a rapid coronavirus resurgence, the third since the pandemic began. The measures in parts of Japan, including Tokyo, have so far failed to curb infections caused by a more contagious...
JAKARTA, (AP): Indonesia’s navy scoured the waters off Bali on Friday, bolstered by the arrival of a sonar-equipped Australian warship with a helicopter, in an increasingly frantic search for a missing submarine with only hours left in its oxygen...
NEW DELHI (AP): India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. More than a dozen people died when an...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden will embark on his first overseas trip since being in office in June, the White House announced Friday, with the aim of demonstrating his administration’s commitment to the transatlantic alliance and re-...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): Kidnappers have released three of the religious people they abducted nearly two weeks ago, a spokesman for the Conference of Bishops of Haiti has said. Father Loudger Mazile said that Sister Anne-Marie Dortellus, Father...
United States health officials on Friday urged resuming COVID-19 vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose shot, saying the benefits outweigh a rare risk of blood clots. Federal health officials uncovered 15 vaccine...
MIAMI (AP) — A family accused of selling a toxic industrial bleach as a coronavirus cure through their Florida-based church has been indicted on federal charges. A federal grand jury in Miami returned an indictment Thursday charging Mark...
TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday Canada has reached an agreement with Pfizer for 35 million booster shots next year and 30 million in 2023 in case the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines fades with time and need to be...
The Biden administration has taken the first step toward ending an emergency exception that allowed hospitals to ration and reuse N95 medical masks, the first line of defense between frontline workers and the deadly coronavirus. Thousands of...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. More than a dozen people died...
LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency said Friday that people who have received a first dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine should get the second one too, despite the rare risk of blood clots that have been linked to the shot....
ST GEORGE’S Students in the School of Arts and Science at St George’s University are planning a protest at the main entrance of the building to formally object to a decision made by the institution which stipulates that all students , faculty,...
NASSAU Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis says that persons who are fully vaccinated will be able to travel to The Bahamas as of May 1 and be exempted from testing requirements. Minnis, who made the announcement on Wednesday, said that fully...
LONDON (AP): British authorities apologised Thursday after an investigation found that at least 161,000 mostly African and Indian military service personnel who died during World War I were not properly honoured due to “pervasive racism”. It said...
DAMASCUS (AP) The Syrian government received a batch of 203,000 COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, the health minister said, part of a push to speed up a sluggish inoculation process in the war-torn country. The arrival of the United Nations-secured...
LONDON (AP): British lawmakers on Thursday approved a parliamentary motion declaring that China’s policies against its Uyghur minority population in the far western Xinjiang region amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity. The motion is non...
WASHINGTON (AP): COVID-19 hospitalisations among older Americans have plunged 80 per cent since the start of the year, dramatic proof that the vaccination campaign is working. Now the trick is to get more of the nation’s younger people to roll up...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Drought conditions now cover 85% of Mexico, and residents of the nation’s central region said Thursday that lakes and reservoirs are simply drying up, including the country’s second-largest body of freshwater....
NEW DELHI (AP) — India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections Thursday as a grim coronavirus surge in the world’s second-most populous country sends more and more sick people into a fragile healthcare system...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court made it easier Thursday to sentence minors convicted of murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole, a ruling that reflects a change in course driven by a more conservative group of justices...
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP): They travel thousands of miles by plane from Latin America to the US, in some places taking a shuttle directly from the airport to COVID-19 vaccine sites. Their ranks include politicians, TV personalities, business...
PARIS (AP): The guilty verdict in the trial over George Floyd’s death was not just celebrated in America. It signalled hope for those seeking racial justice and fighting police brutality on the other side of the Atlantic and beyond, where Black...
