UNITED NATIONS (AP): Secretary-General Antonio Guterres officially declared on Monday that he is seeking a second five-year term at the helm of the United Nations (UN). Guterres said in a letter to General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir that “it...
BERLIN (AP): German Chancellor Angela Merkel considers US President Donald Trump’s eviction from Twitter by the company “problematic”, her spokesman said on Monday. Twitter permanently suspended Trump from the microblogging platform on Friday,...
ROME (AP): Pope Francis changed church law on Monday to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, granting them access to the most sacred place on the altar, while continuing to affirm that they cannot be priests. Francis amended the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday re-designated Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism,” hitting the country with new sanctions that could hamstring President-elect Joe Biden’s promise to renew relations...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, stoking fears of more bloodshed after last week’s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Impeachment pressure mounting, the House worked swiftly Monday to try to oust President Donald Trump from office, pushing the vice president and Cabinet to act first in an extraordinary effort to remove Trump in the final...
BEIJING (AP) — Experts from the World Health Organization are due to arrive in China this week for a long-anticipated investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the government said Monday. The experts will arrive on Thursday...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis changed church law Monday to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, granting them access to the most sacred place on the altar, while continuing to affirm that they cannot be priests. Francis amended...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump as she pushes the vice president and the Cabinet to invoke constitutional authority to force him out, warning that...
LONDON — England’s chief medical officer warned Monday that the coming weeks would be the worst of the pandemic for the National Health Service as he appealed to the public to strictly follow guidelines meant to prevent the spread of...
KINSHASA (AP): Gunmen have killed at least six rangers in Virunga National Park, the latest attack in the part of eastern Congo that is home to some of the world’s last mountain gorillas, officials said Sunday. The violence took place on Sunday in...
JAKARTA (AP): Authorities said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500 on Sunday, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Indonesia’s...
LONDON (AP): The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus deaths. The UK is the epicenter of Europe’s COVID-19 outbreak...
BALTIMORE: Coronavirus infections have now surpassed 90 million confirmed cases around the world, as more countries braced for a wider spread of more virulent strains of a disease that has now killed nearly two million worldwide. The number of...
WASHINGTON (AP): House lawmakers may have been exposed to someone testing positive for COVID-19 while they sheltered at an undisclosed location during the Capitol siege by a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump. The Capitol’s attending...
NEW YORK (CMC): Several Caribbean American Democratic legislators on Friday joined their colleagues in strongly condemning the violence that erupted on Wednesday during an attack on the Capitol Building in Washington, DC by pro-Donald Trump...
TORTOLA (CMC): The government of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), will as of today, impose a ban on all tourist-related travels from the Dominican Republic. Health Minister Carvin Malone in a statement on Friday, said the decision was made due to...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has confided that he will not be exiting public life before the 2023 general election, despite previously stating that he would be doing so. During the campaign for the 2018 general election...
CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) — A West Virginia state lawmaker has been charged with entering a restricted area of the US Capitol after he livestreamed himself rushing into the building with a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats laid plans Friday for impeaching President Donald Trump, even as he’s headed out of the White House, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she had spoken to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about preventing...
ORANGE, California (AP) — The United States topped 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time, breaking a record set just one day earlier, with several Sun Belt states driving the surge. The tally from Johns Hopkins...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he won’t attend President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration on Jan. 20. He will be the first incumbent president since Andrew Johnson to skip his successor's inauguration....
WASHINGTON (AP) — The violent insurrection at the US Capitol is intensifying scrutiny over security at the upcoming inauguration ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden that already has been reshaped by the pandemic and the prospect that...
LONDON (AP) — Britain has authorised a coronavirus vaccine developed by Moderna, the third to be licensed for use in the country as it ramps up a vaccination program critical to lifting the United Kingdom out of the pandemic. The Department...
New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two easier-to-spread variants of the coronavirus that erupted in Britain and South Africa. Those variants are causing global concern. They carry...
