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Desperation grows in battered Honduras

Published:Friday | February 12, 2021 | 12:20 AM

SAN PEDRO SULA (AP): Nory Yamileth Hernández and her three teenage children have been living in a battered tent under a bridge on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula since Hurricane Eta flooded their home in November. They were there in the dust under...

Rioters acted on Trump’s ‘orders,’ Democrats say in trial

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

WASHINGTON (AP): House Democrat prosecuting Donald Trump’s impeachment said on Thursday the Capitol invaders believed they were acting on “the president’s orders” and reflected his violent rhetoric when they stormed the building, aiming to stop...

Trump lawyer says House presentation ‘offensive’

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

WASHINGTON (AP): One of Donald Trump’s lawyers is calling the presentation by House impeachment managers “offensive”. David Schoen told reporters on Thursday that Democrats were “making a movie” and had yet to tie the J 6 siege at the US Capitol...

Biden orders sanctions against Myanmar after military coup

Published:Thursday | February 11, 2021 | 5:52 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered new sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar, taking action after the military this month staged a coup in the Southeast Asian country and arrested de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi...

Nun named to voting position at Vatican praises ‘brave’ pope

Published:Thursday | February 11, 2021 | 5:51 AM

ROME (AP): A French nun who has become the first woman to hold a voting position at the Vatican said on Wednesday that her appointment is evidence the “patriarchal mindset is changing” as more and more women assume high-level, decision-making...

Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to 7¹/2 years in prison

Published:Thursday | February 11, 2021 | 5:50 AM

MOSCOW (AP): The Jehovah’s Witnesses say a member of the religious denomination that is banned in Russia has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, the harshest punishment in scores of cases. The denomination’s European office said 63-...

Yemen rebel attack on airport sets plane on fire

Published:Thursday | February 11, 2021 | 5:48 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia with bomb-laden drones, causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch fire, the kingdom’s state television reported. The attack...

Trump’s historic second trial opens

Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 3:24 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The Senate opened Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial Tuesday, the defeated former president charged by the House with inciting the deadly mob attack on the Capitol to overturn the election in what prosecutors call the...

Former Nazi guard, age 100, charged as accessory to murder

Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 3:23 AM

BERLIN (AP): German prosecutors have charged a 100-year-old man with 3,518 counts of being an accessory to murder on allegations he served during World War II as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin, authorities said...

Negative COVID test required at land border Feb 15

Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 3:23 AM

TORONTO (AP): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday that starting next week any non-essential traveller arriving in Canada by land will need to show a negative PCR-based COVID-19 test or face a fine if they don’t have one....

Arab spacecraft enters orbit in historic flight

Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 3:23 AM

DUBAI (AP): A spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) swung into orbit around Mars on Tuesday in a triumph for the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. Ground controllers at the UAE’s space centre in Dubai rose to their feet and broke...

Navalny supporters to rally in courtyards

Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 3:23 AM

MOSCOW (AP): A top ally of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday announced a new anti-government protest, urging residents of big cities to briefly gather in residential courtyards this weekend with their cell phone flashlights on....

Villagers concerned about safety following earthquake

Published:Tuesday | February 9, 2021 | 12:17 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn has sought to dispel the fears of residents in the South Rupununi who were considering abandoning their villages in the wake of the January 31 earthquake that was most pronounced in that area...

Nurses ready for largest mass vaccination programme in country’s history

Published:Tuesday | February 9, 2021 | 12:16 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): With Barbados expecting to receive 100,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine this week, public health nurses have declared their readiness to undertake the largest mass vaccination programme in the island’s history...

24 garment workers killed in flooded factory

Published:Tuesday | February 9, 2021 | 12:16 AM

RABAT (AP): At least 24 workers died on Monday in the northern Moroccan city of Tangier after heavy rains flooded an illegal garment factory, Morocco’s state news agency MAP reported. There were reports that as many as 28 people died. Local...

Why the political strife has worsened

Published:Tuesday | February 9, 2021 | 12:15 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) : Political strife in Haiti has deepened as opposition leaders and supporters claim that President Jovenel Moïse’s five-year term has expired, demanding that he step down on February 7. But on that day, Moïse announced that...

Group condemns ‘forced’ termination of Taiwan agreement with Guyana

Published:Monday | February 8, 2021 | 12:26 AM

NEW YORK (CMC): The Brooklyn, New York-based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) has strongly condemned what it describes as the “forced” termination of the agreement between Taiwan and Guyana to establish a Taiwan office in the...

Gonsalves to take Russian COVID-19 vaccine tomorrow

Published:Monday | February 8, 2021 | 12:26 AM

KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves says that he will take the Russian-developed Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine tomorrow. Gonsalves made the announcement while speaking on local radio here on Sunday, just three days after telling Parliament...

Glacier breaks in Himalayas, scores missing

Published:Monday | February 8, 2021 | 12:25 AM

RISHIKESH (AP): Indian rescue crews struggled to reach trapped victims on Sunday after part of a glacier in the Himalayas broke off and released a torrent of water and debris that slammed into two hydroelectric plants. At least nine people were...

Rights activist missing after being stopped at airport

Published:Monday | February 8, 2021 | 12:24 AM

BEIJING (AP): Authorities have given no word on the status of Chinese legal rights activist Guo Feixiong after he was blocked from leaving the country last week to join his family in the United States, his sister said on Tuesday. Yang Maoping said...

President alleges coup conspiracy; 20 arrested

Published:Monday | February 8, 2021 | 12:24 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haitian President Jovenel Moïse announced on Sunday that police have arrested more than 20 people he accused of trying to kill him and overthrow his government, including a Supreme Court judge who has the support of opposition...

South Africa suspends AstraZeneca vaccine drive

Published:Sunday | February 7, 2021 | 4:22 PM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has suspended plans to inoculate its front-line health care workers with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after a small clinical trial suggested that it isn’t effective in preventing mild to moderate...

AstraZeneca vaccine being tweaked to fight South Africa variant

Published:Sunday | February 7, 2021 | 12:49 PM

LONDON (AP) — Developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine expect to have a modified jab to cope with the South Africa coronavirus variant by autumn, the vaccine’s lead researcher said Sunday. Health officials in Britain are trying to...

UK won't issue 'immunity' COVID-19 passports

Published:Sunday | February 7, 2021 | 11:11 AM

LONDON — A British official says the country is not considering issuing so-called “immunity passports” for those who have been given the coronavirus vaccine but they could ask their doctor for written proof of their vaccine status...

Glacier breaks in India’s north; flood kills nine, 140 missing

Published:Sunday | February 7, 2021 | 11:00 AM

RISHIKESH, India (AP) — Indian authorities launched a search operation Sunday after part of a mountain glacier broke, sending a massive flood of water and debris slamming into two dams and damaging a number of houses. At least nine people...

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