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Biden threatens sanctions on Myanmar after military coup

Published:Monday | February 1, 2021 | 5:01 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday threatened new sanctions on Myanmar after its military staged a coup and arrested the civilian leaders of its government, including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Biden assailed the...

CDC says US cases down, but three variants detected

Published:Monday | February 1, 2021 | 4:40 PM

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — The deadliest month yet of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States drew to a close with certain signs of progress: COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations are plummeting, while vaccinations are...

US awards $231M contract for at-home coronavirus tests

Published:Monday | February 1, 2021 | 1:07 PM

WASHINGTON — White House coronavirus adviser Andy Slavitt says the government awarded a $231-million contract to scale up production of a COVID-19 home test recently authorised by US regulators. For months, health experts have stressed the...

Europol: Criminal gangs selling fake COVID-19 test results

Published:Monday | February 1, 2021 | 9:40 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The European Union’s police agency is warning nations to be on the lookout for fake COVID-19 test certificates, as crime gangs attempt to cash in on pandemic travel restrictions. Many countries have introduced...

Military stages coup in Myanmar, detains Aung San Suu Kyi

Published:Monday | February 1, 2021 | 9:14 AM

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s military staged a coup Monday and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi — a sharp reversal of the significant, if uneven, progress toward democracy in the...

EU: AstraZeneca to supply 9 million more vaccine doses

Published:Monday | February 1, 2021 | 12:23 AM

BERLIN (AP) Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply nine million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter, the bloc’s executive arm said on Sunday. The new target of 40 million doses...

Over 5,100 arrested at pro-Navalny protests

Published:Monday | February 1, 2021 | 12:23 AM

MOSCOW (AP) Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets on Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests that have rattled the...

GOP lawmakers urge Biden to meet with them on virus relief

Published:Monday | February 1, 2021 | 12:22 AM

WASHINGTON (AP Ten Republican senators on Sunday proposed spending about one-third of what President Joe Biden is seeking in coronavirus aid and urged him to negotiate rather than try to ram through his US$1.9 trillion package solely on Democratic...

Push to reopen schools could leave out millions of students

Published:Monday | February 1, 2021 | 12:21 AM

(AP): President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April, but even if that happens, it is likely to leave out millions of students, many of them minorities in urban areas. “We’re going...

Motion of no-confidence filed against speaker

Published:Friday | January 29, 2021 | 12:18 AM

GEORGE TOWN (CMC): Opposition Leader Arden McLean and an Independent legislator, Ezzard Miller, on Thursday, filed a no-confidence motion calling for McKeeva Bush to be ousted as Speaker of the House. The motion was filed almost one month after...

Take every shift as it comes: No respite for UK hospitals

Published:Friday | January 29, 2021 | 12:17 AM

LONDON (AP): When the United Kingdom surpassed 100,000 coronavirus dead this week, it was much more than just a number to Justin Fleming. Lying in a hospital bed with COVID-19, he knew how easily he could have become one of them were it not for the...

WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine for COVID origins study

Published:Friday | January 29, 2021 | 12:16 AM

WUHAN (AP): A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers, who were...

Biden opens sign-up window for uninsured as COVID-19 rages

Published:Friday | January 29, 2021 | 12:16 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered government health insurance markets to reopen for a special sign-up window, offering uninsured Americans a haven as the spread of COVID-19 remains dangerously high and vaccines are not yet...

Virus variant from South Africa detected in US for first time

Published:Friday | January 29, 2021 | 12:15 AM

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP): A new variant of the coronavirus emerged Thursday in the United States, posing yet another public health challenge in a country already losing more than 3,000 people to COVID-19 every day. The mutated version of the...

Record 4.2 tons of cocaine seized near French Caribbean

Published:Thursday | January 28, 2021 | 12:26 AM

SAN JUAN (AP): Officials with the French army stationed in the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe said Wednesday that they seized a record 4.2 tons of cocaine in nearby waters. The Armed Forces of the Antilles said it found the 177...

US terrorism alert warns of politically motivated violence

Published:Thursday | January 28, 2021 | 12:24 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning of the potential for lingering violence from people motivated by anti-government sentiment after President Joe Biden’s election, suggesting...

Report: Israeli settler population surged during Trump era

Published:Thursday | January 28, 2021 | 12:22 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): Israel’s West Bank settler population has grown at a far higher rate than the country as a whole over the last four years, a pro-settler group said Wednesday, a period that coincides with the Trump administration’s unprecedented...

Maduro’s ‘miracle’ treatment for COVID-19 draws sceptics

Published:Wednesday | January 27, 2021 | 4:21 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro appears to be counting on yet another “miracle” to save his citizens from COVID-19, promoting a secretive solution with no published scientific evidence he claims will conquer the new...

Navalny ally vows to press for his freedom despite crackdown

Published:Wednesday | January 27, 2021 | 4:20 AM

MOSCOW (AP): A top ally of Alexei Navalny vowed Tuesday to keep up the fight to free the jailed Russian opposition leader and his battle to influence this year’s parliamentary election despite a government crackdown on nationwide protests and its...

A ‘tsunami’ of grief - Britain’s coronavirus deaths pass 100,000

Published:Wednesday | January 27, 2021 | 4:20 AM

LONDON (AP): For nine months, Gordon Bonner has been in the “hinterlands of despair and desolation” after losing his wife of 63 years to the coronavirus pandemic that has now taken the lives of more than 100,000 people in the United Kingdom (UK)....

US restoring relations with Palestinians

Published:Wednesday | January 27, 2021 | 4:20 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): US President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday it was restoring relations with the Palestinians and renewing aid to Palestinian refugees, a reversal of the Trump administration’s cut-off and a key element of its new...

Turkmenistan president establishes holiday to honour local dog breed

Published:Wednesday | January 27, 2021 | 4:20 AM

ASHGABAT (AP): Turkmenistan’s autocratic leader has established a national holiday to honor the local dog breed, media reports said on Tuesday. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov ordered the holiday praising the Alabai, the Central Asian...

EU urges Venezuela to set up new elections

Published:Tuesday | January 26, 2021 | 12:13 AM

BRUSSELS (AP): The European Union (EU) called on Monday for broad political talks in Venezuela to set up new elections, and warned that it stands ready to slap sanctions on more senior Venezuelan officials in the country if they undermine democracy...

Nigeria police working to rescue abducted orphans, staff

Published:Tuesday | January 26, 2021 | 12:13 AM

LAGOS (AP): Police in Nigeria are working to rescue seven children and a man who were abducted from an orphanage in the capital over the weekend. The children and a staff member of the Rachel’s Orphanage Home in the capital city, Abuja, were...

90 per cent of Zimbabwe government staff sent home

Published:Tuesday | January 26, 2021 | 12:13 AM

HARARE (AP): Zimbabwe’s public services are paralysed as the government ordered a near shutdown of operations to minimise the spread of COVID-19 amid a spike in infections and deaths. The Southern African country is on a tight lockdown imposed in...

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