Most children with a serious inflammatory illness linked to the coronavirus had initial COVID-19 infections with no symptoms or only mild ones, a new US research shows. The unusual post-infection condition tends to be milder in kids who were...
NEW DELHI — The world’s largest vaccine maker, based in India, will restart exports of AstraZeneca doses by June if coronavirus infections subside in the country, its chief executive says. But a continued surge could result in more...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s slow but steady march out of a three-month lockdown remains on track even as coronavirus cases surge elsewhere in Europe, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday, as he confirmed that businesses from...
The Norwegian Cruise Line is seeking permission to resume trips from US ports on July 4, requiring passengers and crew members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at least two weeks before the trip. The Miami company said its precautions go well...
TEHRAN (AP): A man gunned down his nine-year-old son and seven relatives of his two wives before killing himself on Monday in southwestern Iran, state media reported. The 50-year-old man also allegedly wounded three others in the shootings in the...
JERUSALEM (AP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial resumed on Monday, with a key witness painting a picture of an image-obsessed Israeli leader forcing a prominent news site to flatter his family and smear his opponents. The...
WARRI (AP): Militants armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades launched a series of coordinated attacks overnight in southeastern Nigeria, targeting a prison where more than 1,800 inmates then managed to escape, authorities said on...
The emergency room doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead after trying to resuscitate him testified Monday that he theorized at the time that Floyd most likely died of suffocation.
LONDON (AP) — British police said Sunday that 107 people were arrested in London during demonstrations against government plans to increase police powers. Thousands marched in towns and cities across the country on Saturday to protest the...
PARIS (AP) — The French city of Lyon’s main stadium opened as a mass vaccination centre during Easter weekend, and thousands spent the holiday lining up for injections at hippodromes, velodromes, or other sites as France tried to speed...
LONDON (AP) — Britain is planning to test a series of measures including “coronavirus status certifications” over the coming weeks to see if they can allow people to safely return to mass gatherings at sports arenas, nightclubs,...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Landslides and flash floods from torrential rains in eastern Indonesia killed at least 41 people and displaced thousands, the country’s disaster relief agency said Sunday. More than two dozen others were still...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis in his traditional Easter Sunday address denounced as “scandalous” how armed conflicts continue to rage even as the coronavirus pandemic has triggered severe social and economic suffering and...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Director of the National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) Michelle Forbes is urging Vincentians to still prepare for the possibility of an explosive eruption of La Soufriere. The volcano has been erupting effusively since...
NEW YORK (AP): Amazon is sorry for tweeting about peeing. The company apologised in a late Friday blog post for a tweet it sent to a congressman more than a week ago denying that its employees work so hard they must urinate in empty water bottles....
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunisation status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flashpoint in America’s perpetual...
LONDON (AP) — The commission behind a report that concluded that Britain doesn’t have a systemic problem with racism has defended itself against critics, some of whom have argued that it downplayed the country’s historic role in...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The fight to end the coronavirus’ devastation throughout California’s heartland extends to the Mexico border, where migrant farm workers heading north to pick lettuce, broccoli, carrots, and other crops are...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s medicines regulator is urging people to continue taking the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, despite revealing that seven people in the United Kingdom have died from rare blood clots after getting the jab....
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya has ordered an immediate suspension on private importations of vaccines citing fears that it may lead to counterfeit inoculations getting into the country. “To ensure the transparency and accountability in...
LONDON (AP) — The British government is gearing up to ban international arrivals from four more countries — Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan, and the Philippines — amid concerns over new virus variants but opted against including...
NEW YORK (AP) — Add travel to the activities vaccinated Americans can enjoy again, according to new US guidance issued Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to say fully vaccinated people can travel...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government said Friday it is temporarily halting AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccinations for people under 60 following reports of a very small number of people suffering unusual blood clots after receiving...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s wireless broadband Internet services were shut down on Friday by order of the military, local providers said, as protesters continued to defy the threat of lethal violence to oppose the junta’s...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Christians in the Holy Land are marking Good Friday this year amid signs the coronavirus crisis is winding down, with religious sites open to limited numbers of faithful but none of the mass pilgrimages usually seen in the...
