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European Commission could restrict vaccine exports

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 12:44 PM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s chief executive criticised Anglo-Swedish vaccine-maker AstraZeneca on Wednesday, accusing the embattled pharmaceutical company of delaying Europe’s coronavirus vaccination campaign and warning...

World Meteorological Organization discussing whether Atlantic hurricane season should start in May instead of June

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 12:29 PM

With named storms coming earlier and more often in warmer waters, some assumptions about the Atlantic hurricane season are being rethought. For six straight years, Atlantic storms have been named in May, before the season even begins. On Wednesday...

WHO official calls vaccine blood clots ‘very rare’

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 9:44 AM

GENEVA — A top World Health Organization expert on vaccines says people should feel reassured that even if health authorities turn up a link between blood clots and the AstraZeneca vaccine, such cases are “very rare.” Dr Kate O...

EU sets out virus pass plan to allow free travel by summer

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 9:23 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — With summer looming and tourism-reliant countries anxiously waiting for the return of a steady influx of visitors amid the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union’s executive body presented a proposal Wednesday that...

EU regulator ‘convinced’ AstraZeneca benefit outweighs risk

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 12:28 AM

BRUSSELS (AP): The European Union’s drug regulator insisted Tuesday that there is “no indication” the AstraZeneca vaccine causes blood clots as governments around the world faced the grimmest of dilemmas: push on with a vaccine known to save lives...

President asks OAS for help

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 12:25 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): President Jovenel Moïse has asked the Organization of American States (OAS) for assistance to deal with the security crisis in the French-speaking Caribbean nation, days after the death of four police officers in a botched...

Johnson looks east to Asia as focus of post-Brexit strategy

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 12:24 AM

LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday the UK will prioritise diplomatic engagement with Asian countries in the coming decade, as he unveiled a major shift in the country’s foreign policy and defence priorities after Brexit...

Ethiopia rejects outside mediation in Nile River dam dispute

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 12:19 AM

KAMPALA (AP): An Ethiopian official said on Tuesday that his government opposes calls by Sudan for outside mediators, including the United States, in the ongoing dispute over Ethiopia’s construction of a massive hydroelectric dam on the Nile River...

Moderna to test COVID-19 vaccine on young children, babies

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 2:42 PM

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Moderna announced Tuesday it is beginning a study of its COVID-19 vaccine in children younger than 12 - one that will include babies as young as six months. The announcement comes exactly a year after the first adult...

EU regulator ‘convinced’ AstraZeneca benefit outweighs risk

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 9:55 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — With coronavirus cases rising in many places, governments faced the grimmest of dilemmas Tuesday: push on with a vaccine that is known to save lives or suspend use of AstraZeneca over reports of dangerous blood clots in a few...

EU mulls visa pressure so African states take back migrants

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 9:41 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union ministers on Monday debated ways to persuade northern African countries to take back migrants denied entry into the 27-nation bloc, as the EU considers making it more difficult for those failing to cooperate to...

Extent of COVID-19 vaccine waste in US remains largely unknown

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 9:33 AM

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — As millions continue to wait their turn for the COVID-19 vaccine, small but steady amounts of the precious doses have gone to waste across the country. It’s a heartbreaking reality that experts acknowledged...

VP Harris, Jill Biden promote aid plan

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 12:24 AM

LAS VEGAS (AP): From a vaccination site in the desert West to a grade school on the Eastern seaboard, President Joe Biden’s top messengers – his vice president and wife among them – led a cross-country effort on Monday to highlight the benefits of...

2 charged in assault of Capitol officer who died after riot

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 12:24 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): United States officials have arrested and charged two men with assaulting US Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick with bear spray during the January 6 riot, but they do not know yet whether it caused the officer’s death. George...

Head of junior party in Spanish coalition gov’t stands down

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 12:24 AM

MADRID (AP): The leader of the junior party in Spain’s coalition government announced on Monday he is leaving the Cabinet to run for regional office. Pablo Iglesias, who took the left-wing Unidas Podemos (United We Can) party into government 15...

France to return Nazi-looted Klimt to rightful Jewish heirs

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 12:23 AM

PARIS (AP): The French government announced on Monday that it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938. The colourful 1905 oil...

Myanmar junta orders martial law in large area of Yangon

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 12:23 AM

YANGON (AP): Myanmar’s ruling junta has declared martial law in a wide area of the country’s largest city, as security forces killed dozens of protesters over the weekend in an increasingly lethal crackdown on resistance to last month’s military...

LGBTQ Catholics stung by Vatican rebuff of same-sex unions

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 12:22 AM

The Vatican’s declaration that same-sex unions are a sin the Roman Catholic Church cannot bless was no surprise for LGBTQ Catholics in the United States – yet it stung deeply nonetheless. Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA, said...

COVAX vaccine rollout unaffected by concerns over AstraZeneca - WHO

Published:Monday | March 15, 2021 | 4:14 PM

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said its global rollout of coronavirus vaccines remains unaffected even as a growing number of countries, especially in Europe, suspended use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine on Monday amid...

WHO: Countries may still use AstraZeneca vaccine

Published:Monday | March 15, 2021 | 1:47 PM

GENEVA — The chief scientist of the World Health Organization is recommending that countries continue to use the AstraZeneca vaccine for now despite concerns about blood clots in some people who have received it. A growing number of countries...

Major European nations suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine

Published:Monday | March 15, 2021 | 12:16 PM

BERLIN (AP) — Germany, France, and Italy on Monday became the latest countries to suspend use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine over reports of dangerous blood clots in some recipients, though the company and European regulators have...

Survivors struggle as scientists race to solve COVID-19 mystery

Published:Monday | March 15, 2021 | 12:09 PM

There was no reason to celebrate on Rachel Van Lear’s anniversary. The same day a global pandemic was declared, she developed symptoms of COVID-19. A year later, she’s still waiting for them to disappear. And for experts to come up with...

Survivors struggle as scientists race to solve COVID mystery

Published:Monday | March 15, 2021 | 12:04 PM

There was no reason to celebrate on Rachel Van Lear’s anniversary. The same day a global pandemic was declared, she developed symptoms of COVID-19. A year later, she’s still waiting for them to disappear. And for experts to come up with...

Immigrant victims of crime hope Congress eases US visa hurdles

Published:Monday | March 15, 2021 | 9:39 AM

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — In a bid to become a legal permanent resident of the United States, she says she lives in fear, afraid both of being deported and of retribution after she testified against men who were convicted of killing her...

Myanmar junta orders martial law in six townships

Published:Monday | March 15, 2021 | 9:30 AM

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s ruling junta has declared martial law in six townships in the country’s largest city, as security forces killed dozens of protesters over the weekend in an increasingly lethal crackdown on...

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