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Prince Harry gives advice to grieving children in new book

Published:Sunday | March 21, 2021 | 12:40 AM

LONDON (AP): Britain’s Prince Harry has written the forward for a new book aimed at the children of front-line workers who died in the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing the pain he suffered as a boy after the death of his mother, Princess Diana. Harry...

US ties with Russia, China sink as Biden toes tough lines

Published:Sunday | March 21, 2021 | 12:40 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): United States relations with its two biggest geopolitical rivals are facing severe tests as President Joe Biden tries to assert America’s place in the world and distinguish himself from his predecessor. Airing myriad complaints,...

Amid border surge, confusion reigns over Biden policies

Published:Sunday | March 21, 2021 | 12:27 AM

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP): It took less than a month for 200 tents to fill every spot in a Mexican plaza at the busiest border crossing with the United States. At the camp in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, some 1,500 migrants line up for...

FBI agent who nailed J’can scammers calls it quits

Published:Sunday | March 21, 2021 | 12:27 AM

BISMARCK, North Dakota (AP): Frank Gasper doesn’t drop the names of the criminals he arrested or talk much about particular cases he broke open during his 25 years as a federal investigator. For him, being an FBI agent was more about the victims,...

UN report: Too much prejudice against old and young in world

Published:Sunday | March 21, 2021 | 12:22 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): Prejudice and discrimination based on age is widespread around the world, affecting millions of older and younger people trying to work and get health care, denying their human rights and costing society billions of dollars, a...

UK newspaper group backs working from home post-pandemic

Published:Sunday | March 21, 2021 | 12:21 AM

LONDON (AP): The publisher of one of Britain’s most popular tabloids and numerous other national and regional newspapers says a majority of its staff will continue to work from home on a permanent basis even after all of the UK’s coronavirus...

Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook messenger down for some users

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 2:42 PM

Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger have gone down for users across the world. The three apps – all of which are part of the Facebook company, and share common technology – stopped working on Friday afternoon UK time, the...

Mexico seizes fake Sputnik vaccine bound for Honduras

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 12:35 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican customs officials have seized purported vials of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine en route to Honduras that the Russian entity that bankrolled the vaccine’s development said Thursday were fake. The seizure came...

AstraZeneca vaccinations resume in Europe after blood clot scare

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 11:09 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Countries across Europe resumed vaccinations with the AstraZeneca shot on Friday, as leaders sought to reassure their populations it is safe following brief suspensions that cast doubt on a vaccine that is critical to...

US House passes immigration bills for farm workers, ‘Dreamers’

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 9:41 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to unlatch a gateway to citizenship for young “Dreamers,” migrant farm workers, and immigrants who have fled war or natural disasters, giving Democrats wins in the year’s first votes on...

Bye Alpha, Eta: Greek alphabet ditched for hurricane names

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 9:23 AM

With named storms coming earlier and more often in warmer waters, the Atlantic hurricane season is going through some changes with meteorologists ditching the Greek alphabet during busy years. But the Atlantic hurricane season will start this year...

Biden to send COVID shots to Mexico, Canada

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 12:13 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The US is planning to send a combined four million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico and Canada in its first export of shots, the White House said Thursday. Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration...

President’s death draws sorrow but ire from some

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 12:13 AM

NAKURU (AP): News of the death of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli drew mixed reactions; sorrow from many but bitterness from a critic who said he suffered during the president’s rule, which he said shrank the country’s democratic space. Magufuli...

Zulu king buried amid praise, controversy

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 12:12 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP): The traditional leader of South Africa’s 12 million Zulu people, King Goodwill Zwelithini, has been laid to rest in a private ceremony early Thursday. Zwelithini, 72, died from health problems related to diabetes last Friday and...

CARICOM, Kenya move to strengthen ties

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 12:11 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Thursday accredited the first ambassador of Kenya to the regional body, marking a further step in their rapidly growing relationship. CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, in...

EU agency: AstraZeneca vaccine safe, will add blood clot warning

Published:Thursday | March 18, 2021 | 2:22 PM

LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s drug regulatory agency said Thursday that the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn’t increase the overall incidence of blood clots and that the benefits of using it outweigh the possible risks, paving the...

EU regulator reviews AstraZeneca shot and blood clot links

Published:Thursday | March 18, 2021 | 9:55 AM

LONDON (AP) — The world awaited the results Thursday of an initial European investigation into whether AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is linked to blood clots reported in small numbers of recipients of the shot. Concerns over the...

Survivor: Woman with COVID-19 gives birth, gets new lungs

Published:Thursday | March 18, 2021 | 9:47 AM

DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit woman infected with COVID-19 gave birth then underwent a double lung transplant just weeks later to save her life, doctors said Wednesday. Two months after the transplant, Jackie Dennis, a teacher in New...

Police investigate suspect’s motive in Atlanta killings

Published:Thursday | March 18, 2021 | 12:16 AM

ATLANTA (AP): A white gunman accused of killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at three Atlanta-area massage parlours was charged with murder Wednesday in an attack that sent terror through the Asian-American community that’s...

Protesters fight back amid violent crackdown

Published:Thursday | March 18, 2021 | 12:15 AM

YANGON (AP): Protesters in Myanmar fired slingshots and threw Molotov cocktails towards lines of security forces after apparently coming under fire Wednesday in a rare incidence of anti-coup demonstrators fighting back against a relentlessly...

China blasts US ‘evil past of genocide’

Published:Thursday | March 18, 2021 | 12:15 AM

GENEVA (AP): China on Wednesday blasted the United States’ human rights record, citing what it called US failures against COVID-19 that cost “hundreds of thousands of lives”, as well as racial discrimination, police brutality, and an “evil past of...

Court refuses to allow female genital mutilation

Published:Thursday | March 18, 2021 | 12:14 AM

NAKURU (AP): A Kenyan court on Wednesday refused to allow female circumcision for consenting adults, saying that unlike the male cut, it does not have health benefits and actually reduces the well-being of the woman it’s performed on, and, in some...

Headmaster charged for lowering boy into latrine

Published:Thursday | March 18, 2021 | 12:14 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP): A school headmaster in South Africa has been charged with child abuse after lowering an 11-year-old student into a pit latrine to search for the official’s cellphone, according to local news reports. The headmaster of Luthuthu...

Tanzania’s COVID-denying president John Magufuli has died

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 4:32 PM

NAKURU, Kenya (AP) — President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 sceptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died. He was 61. Magufuli’s death was...

Greece could order private doctors to join COVID-19 battle

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 2:46 PM

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s health minister said Wednesday that unless at least 200 private doctors volunteer to help the public health service’s battle against COVID-19 in the next 48 hours, he will recommend the prime...

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