Two Nigerian nurses were attacked by the family of a deceased COVID-19 patient. One nurse had her hair ripped out and suffered a fracture. The second was beaten into a coma. Following the assaults, nurses at Federal Medical Centre in the...
LONDON (AP): British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Monday that he understood the “conundrum” faced by developing countries as they wait for vital supplies of coronavirus vaccine. But Raab urged poorer nations to wait for the “gold-...
LAHORE (AP): A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to a Christian man convicted in 2018, while still a teenager, of insulting Islam by posting a picture of Islam’s holiest site on social media, a defence lawyer said. The court order in the...
PARIS (AP): A Paris court found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling on Monday and sentenced him to a year in prison. He can ask to serve that time at home, and also plans to appeal. The 66-year-old,...
NEW YORK (CMC): New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against a company that helps secure immigration bonds, for allegedly preying on vulnerable Caribbean and other immigrants. In a lawsuit filed against Libre by Nexus and its...
GENEVA (AP) — A senior World Health Organization official said Monday it was “premature” and “unrealistic” to think the pandemic might be stopped by the end of the year, but that the recent arrival of effective...
LONDON (AP) — British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Monday that he understood the “conundrum” faced by developing countries as they wait for vital supplies of coronavirus vaccine. But Raab urged poorer nations to wait for...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Police in Myanmar’s biggest city fired tear gas Monday at defiant crowds who returned to the streets to protest last month’s coup, despite reports that security forces had killed at least 18 people a day...
PARIS (AP) — A Paris court on Monday found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence-peddling and sentenced him to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence. The 66-year-old politician, who was...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) The US is "gravely concerned by reported atrocities and the overall deteriorating situation" in Ethiopia's Tigray region, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in the toughest statement yet from the US on Ethiopia's ongoing...
HONG KONG (AP) Hong Kong police on Sunday detained 47 pro-democracy activists on charges of conspiracy to commit subversion under the city’s national security law, in the largest mass charge against the semi-autonomous Chinese territory’s...
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis on Sunday decried the kidnapping of 317 students from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria and prayed for the girls' quick release. Addressing the public in St Peter's Square, Francis said he was adding his...
YANGON (AP): Security forces in Myanmar opened fire and made mass arrests on Sunday as they sought to break up protests against the military's seizure of power, and a UN human rights official said it had "credible information" that 18 people...
LAGOS (AP): Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation. Police and the military have begun joint operations to...
ABIDJAN (AP): Ivory Coast on Friday became the second country in the world to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX initiative, with 504,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. The vaccines...
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian regulators on Friday authorised AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for all adults. It is the third COVID-19 vaccine given the green light by Canada, following those from Pfizer and Moderna. “This is very...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation. Police and the military have begun joint...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Violet light bathed the club stage as 300 people, masked and socially distanced, erupted in gentle applause. For the first time since the pandemic began, Israeli musician Aviv Geffen stepped to his electric piano and...
WASHINGTON (AP): The acting US Capitol police chief was pressed to explain Thursday why the agency had not been prepared to fend off a violent mob of insurrectionists, including white supremacists, who were trying to halt the certification of the...
NEW YORK (AP): A New York prosecutor has obtained copies of Donald Trump’s tax records after the Supreme Court this week rejected the former president’s last-ditch effort to prevent them from being handed over. The Manhattan district attorney’s...
MISSION, Kansas (AP): When COVID-19 patients inundated St Louis hospitals, respiratory therapists arriving for yet another gruelling shift with a dwindling supply of ventilators would often glance at their assignments and cry, heading into the...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China approved two more COVID-19 vaccines for wider use Thursday, adding to its growing arsenal of shots. The National Medical Products Administration gave conditional approval to a vaccine from CanSino Biologics and a...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York prosecutor has obtained copies of Donald Trump’s tax records after the Supreme Court this week rejected the former president’s last-ditch effort to prevent them from being handed over. The Manhattan...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck nations in Africa and Latin America, where warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to...
NEW YORK (AP) — February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors’ offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not this year. Flu has virtually disappeared from the US, with reports coming in at far lower levels...
