MEXICO CITY (AP) — Many private doctors, dentists, and health workers in Mexico are protesting that they have been left out of a government-run coronavirus vaccine programme despite the fact they are exposed to possible infection. The...
TOKYO (AP) — Doctors in Japan have announced that they have successfully performed the world’s first transplant of lung tissue from living donors to a patient with severe lung damage from COVID-19. The recipient, identified only as a...
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s national vaccination committee has announced it is recommending the AstraZeneca vaccine continue to be administered to people 30 and older, saying the risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19 far...
Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a role that both defined and constricted his life, has died, Buckingham Palace said Friday.
LONDON (AP) — Prince Philip, the irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a role that both defined and constricted his life, has died, Buckingham Palace said Friday. He...
WASHINGTON (AP): United States President Joe Biden put on a modest White House ceremony Thursday to announce a half-dozen executive actions to combat what he called an "epidemic and an international embarrassment" of gun violence in America. But he...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico’s top diplomat said Thursday his country expects to see “constant and growing” flows of migrants in coming years and estimated the United States must spend $2 billion per year in development aid to stem the tide. Foreign...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): If the prevailing economic situation continues, Government may be unable to pay salaries and benefits, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves said on Wednesday. “I say this with all honesty, the way things are going … in one or two...
Authorities in the eastern Caribbean island of St Vincent said on Thursday they believe an active volcano is in danger of exploding and have ordered mandatory evacuations. The island’s emergency management office switched the alert level to red and...
MIAMI (AP) — The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to demand cruise ships be allowed to start sailing immediately, Governor Ron DeSantis announced Thursday. DeSantis said the no-sail order is outdated and...
ALBANY, New York (AP) — In the largest programme of its kind, New York lawmakers have created a $2.1 billion fund to aid workers who lost jobs or income during the coronavirus pandemic but were excluded from other government relief...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain joined other European nations on Wednesday in limiting the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the elderly due to concerns over links to extremely rare blood clotting. Spanish Health Minister Carolina Darias...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia on Thursday become the latest country to restrict use of the AstraZeneca vaccine by recommending that it not be given to people under age 50. The announcement came after Australian drug regulators held a...
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s COVID-19 vaccination programme is beginning to break the link between infection and serious illness or death, according to the latest results from an ongoing study of the pandemic in England....
BEIRUT (AP): Jordan’s King Abdullah II addressed the unprecedented public rift within the royal family for the first time on Wednesday, portraying it as an attempted sedition involving his half-brother that had been “nipped in the bud”, but caused...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday defended the 2013 ruling that freed one of the drug lords most wanted by US authorities, even though Mexico’s Supreme Court later ruled it was a mistake. Rafael Caro...
JERUSALEM (AP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged the world not to revive the troubled international nuclear deal with Iran as he opened Israel’s annual memorial day for the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust....
SANDY HOOK, New Jersey (AP) — To the usual list of foul trash left behind or washed up on beaches around the world, add these: masks and gloves used by people to avoid the coronavirus and then discarded on the sand. In the past year,...
LEMBATA, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from mudslides in eastern Indonesia has risen to 140 with dozens still missing, officials said Wednesday, as the rain continued to pound the region and hamper the search. East Flores district on...
WASHINGTON — A variant of the coronavirus first identified in Britain is now the most common strain circulating in the United States. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Rochelle Walensky, says the strain,...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Kits for self-administered coronavirus tests began arriving in Greek pharmacies Wednesday, with each resident entitled to one free of charge per week as part of efforts to tackle a surge of coronavirus cases and...
LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s drug regulator says it has found a “possible link” between the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and a rare blood clotting disorder but said that the benefits of the shot still outweigh risks...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden was announcing Tuesday that he’s bumping up his deadline for states to make all adults in the US eligible for coronavirus vaccines. With states gradually expanding eligibility beyond such priority groups as...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said Tuesday. Rowley was tested after experiencing flu-like symptoms on Monday, according to a government statement. He is...
The recent protest movement in Myanmar has been characterised as “leaderless” but in reality, thousands of activists have organised protests in their own communities against the military. Tayzar San is one of these young leaders who have played a...
