WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is extending a ban on housing foreclosures to June 30 to help homeowners struggling during the coronavirus pandemic. The moratorium on foreclosures of federally guaranteed mortgages had been set to expire...
WASHINGTON (AP): Donald Trump took in the win at Mar-a-Lago, surrounded by friends and family. His lawyers celebrated with hugs and smiles. One joked, “We’re going to Disney World!” Now acquitted in his second Senate impeachment trial, Trump is...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) : Guinea has officially declared that it has an Ebola epidemic after at least three people have died and four others have been infected in the West African nation. Neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia have put their citizens on...
TEL AVIV (AP): Dr Anthony Fauci has won the $1 million Dan David Prize for “defending science” and advocating for vaccines now being administered worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The Israel-based Dan David Foundation on Monday named...
HAVANA (CMC) : The South American nation of Bolivia has reinstated bilateral economic and trade relations with Cuba – ties that were cut in November 2019 following the overthrow of the government. The agreement was reached during a virtual meeting...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s foreign minister resigned Sunday amid an uproar over government officials being secretly vaccinated against the coronavirus before the country recently received one million doses for health workers facing a...
TORONTO (AP) — The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorisation to AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the UN agency’s partners to ship millions of doses to countries worldwide as part...
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States. “It seems the new...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Guinea has officially declared it has an Ebola epidemic after at least three people have died and four others have been infected in the West African nation. Neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia have put their citizens...
The makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations — and regulators are looking to flu as a blueprint if and when the shots need an update. “It’s not really something you...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday to head the World Trade Organization, becoming the first woman and first African to take on the role amid disagreement over how the body decides cases...
WASHINGTON (AP) — After former President Donald Trump’s acquittal at his second Senate impeachment trial, bipartisan support appears to be growing for an independent September 11-style commission into the deadly insurrection that took...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s newly established quarantine hotels received their first guests on Monday as the government tries to prevent new variants of the coronavirus from derailing its fast-moving vaccination drive. Passengers arriving...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Security forces in Myanmar pointed guns toward anti-coup protesters and attacked them with sticks on Monday, seeking to quell the large-scale demonstrations calling for the military junta that seized power earlier this...
TOKYO (AP) Residents in northeastern Japan on Sunday cleaned up clutter and debris in stores and homes after a strong earthquake set off a landslide on a highway, damaged buildings and parts of bullet train lines and caused power blackouts for...
KAYA, Burkina Faso (AP) A 20-year-old woman could no longer live in her village amid the rising violence caused by Islamic extremists. But she needed to return and retrieve the family’s cows in hopes of selling them. If her husband went,...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden will seek to close the prison on the US base at Guantanamo by following a review process, resuming a project begun under the Obama administration, the White House said Friday. White House press secretary Jen...
MADRID (AP): Spain’s National Court has approved the extradition of a financial broker wanted in Venezuela on charges of fraud and embezzlement of funds. The ruling on 40-year-old Ernesto Quintero triggered protests Friday among the Venezuelan...
GENEVA (AP): The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that the drop in confirmed COVID-19 infections around the world was encouraging, but cautioned against relaxing restrictions that have helped curb the spread of the...
TORONTO (AP): Air travellers to Canada will quarantine in a hotel starting on February 22 as they await the result of a coronavirus test, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Trudeau previously announced stricter restrictions would be imposed...
GEORGE TOWN (CMC): The Governor of the Cayman Islands Martyn Roper will be issuing a proclamation to dissolve the Parliament in this British overseas territory, as the citizens will head to the polls on April 14 – one month earlier than previously...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana-based secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed concern about recent developments in the French-speaking member state of Haiti. In a statement on Thursday, CARICOM said that it is monitoring the...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Two regional economists have advised Caribbean countries to join forces to buy about 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for the entire region, or the pandemic will continue to devastate lives and economies for another two years...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The National Security Council (NSC) has approved the use of pepper spray as a “device for safety”, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi announced Thursday night. Speaking at a meeting of the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM),...
YANGON (AP): Members of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities marched through streets in traditional dress and floated on wooden long boats in a scenic lake Thursday to protest last week’s coup, a sign of the broad and growing resistance to the military...
