CARACAS, (AP): Venezuela’s government on Wednesday ordered the expulsion of the head of the European Union delegation in the South American nation following the bloc’s decision to impose sanctions on several Venezuelan officials accused of...
MEXICO CITY (AP): In the first five days since the administration of US President Joe Biden began to process the thousands of asylum seekers waiting in Mexico, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registered 12,000 people. That...
ACCRA, (AP): Ghana received the world’s first delivery of coronavirus vaccines from the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative on Wednesday – the long-awaited start for a programme that has thus far fallen short of hopes that it would ensure shots...
ORANJESTAD, (CMC): Aruba, the first country in the Dutch Caribbean to begin a COVID-19 immunisation campaign, continued its vaccination drive this week, with Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes among those getting the jab to encourage more of the...
A real-world test of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in more than half a million people confirms that it’s very effective at preventing serious illness or death, even after one dose. Wednesday’s published results, from a mass...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — In the first five days since the administration of US President Joe Biden began to process the thousands of asylum seekers waiting in Mexico, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registered 12,000 people. That...
GENEVA (AP) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday America will vie for a seat at the UN’s human rights body, which would cement the country's return to a Geneva-based body that was shunned by the Trump administration...
BANGKOK (AP) — Three Cabinet ministers in Thailand were forced to leave their posts Wednesday after a court found them guilty of sedition for taking part in sometimes-violent protests in 2013-2014 against the government then in power. The...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana received the world’s first delivery of coronavirus vaccines from the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative on Wednesday — the long-awaited start for a programme that has thus far fallen short of hopes...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine protects against COVID-19, according to an analysis by US regulators Wednesday that sets the stage for a final decision on a new and easier-to-use shot to help tame the...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2021 | 12:21 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that his country is doing better than the United States in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, even though Mexico’s per capita death rate is probably higher and the...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2021 | 12:20 AM
WASHINGTON (AP): A federal judge has ordered the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman to remain temporarily jailed after she was arrested and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plotting his...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2021 | 12:20 AM
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The top United Nations official in Haiti called Monday for a “democratic renewal” in the troubled, French-speaking Caribbean country to lift it out of a drawn-out political and humanitarian crisis and to put it back on the...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2021 | 12:20 AM
BRUSSELS (CMC): The European Union (EU) on Monday removed Barbados from the so-called blacklist of jurisdictions considered non-cooperative for tax purposes, but added Dominica because it said the island still does not fully meet international...
LONDON (AP) — Britain plans to use its presidency of the Group of Seven economic powers to push for an internationally recognised system of vaccine passports that could allow world travel to resume, though Prime Minister Boris Johnson...
LONDON (AP) — Stir-crazy Britons rushed to book overseas vacations after Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled plans to slowly ease a national lockdown, boosting optimism that travel restrictions will be removed in time for the summer holiday...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the reinstatement of Parliament after it was dissolved by the prime minister, in a ruling likely to thrust the Himalayan nation into a political crisis. The order came in...
The Education Department said Monday that it will not allow states to forgo federally required standardised testing in schools this year but will give them the flexibility to delay testing or hold it online during the pandemic. Aiming for a middle...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Lawmakers and rights officials in Guatemala called Monday for an investigation into 30,000 fake COVID-19 tests that were bought by public health officials. The 30,000 tests and testing materials cost the Central American...
WASHINGTON (AP): In a significant defeat for former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to step in to halt the turnover of his tax records to a New York state prosecutor. The court’s action is the apparent culmination of a...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton says while Guyana is open for business and welcomes foreign investments, there should be an amicable labour relationship between employers and employees and all businesses must adhere to the...
GENEVA (AP): The head of the World Health Organization pleaded with rich countries on Monday to check before ordering additional COVID-19 vaccine shots for themselves whether that undermines efforts to get vaccine shots to poorer nations. Wealthy...
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization pleaded with rich countries on Monday to check before ordering additional COVID-19 vaccine shots for themselves whether that undermines efforts to get vaccine shots to poorer nations....
HOUSTON (AP) — Hospitals across the South grappled with water shortages Sunday in the wake of a devastating winter storm as the region carried on with recovery efforts and the weather offered a balmy respite — temperatures as high as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a significant defeat for former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to step in to halt the turnover of his tax records to a New York state prosecutor. The court’s action is the apparent...
