BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a former lawyer who reported on the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak to four years in prison on charges of “picking fights and provoking trouble,” one of her lawyers said....
LONDON (AP) — British hospitals are cancelling non-urgent procedures and scrambling to find space for COVID-19 patients as coronavirus cases continue to surge despite tough new restrictions imposed to curb a fast-spreading new variant of the...
BANGUI (AP): Central African Republic held presidential and legislative elections Sunday, amid fears of violence after a campaign period marked by fighting between rebels and government forces. Voters came out in large numbers in the capital,...
LONDON (AP): The head of drugmaker AstraZeneca, which is developing a coronavirus vaccine widely expected to be approved by UK authorities this week, said Sunday that researchers believe the shot will be effective against a new variant of the virus...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The police have launched a probe following the brutal murder of a mother and daughter on Christmas Day. The police report that the bodies of Tara Krishram, 34, and her 11-year-old daughter were found in a bedroom in the house late...
Outgoing CARICOM chair salutes resilience of Caribbean people GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Outgoing Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Dr Ralph Gonsalves, in his end-of-year statement, has highlighted the resilience of Caribbean nationals...
CAIRO (AP): An intensive care unit at an Egyptian hospital caught fire on Saturday, killing seven coronavirus patients, officials said. Local police said the blaze erupted at a private hospital in Obour, an outlying district of the greater Cairo...
WEST PALM BEACH (AP): Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet were set to lapse at midnight Saturday night unless President Donald Trump signed an end-of-year COVID relief and spending bill that had been...
(AP): Families that usually reunite on Christmas over a hearty, lingering meal celebrated apart on Christmas Day; services shifted online; and gift exchanges were low-key in one of the most unusual and subdued holiday seasons in decades. COVID-19...
(AP): Since the day in 1958 that bartender George ‘Happy’ Irby set out a tip jar at the officers’ club bar on Columbus Air Force Base (CAFB) to provide children with warm clothing at Christmas time, the Happy Irby Christmas Fund has evolved and...
OZARK, Mo (AP): A southwestern Missouri woman who says she loves Christmas has spread cheer by mailing about 700 holiday cards and has received more than 500 in return. Angela Grogan of Ozark says her initial goal when she started mailing cards on...
(AP): Normally this time of year, Greater St Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church in eastern New Orleans would be bustling with singers, musicians, dancers and actors for a concert, cantata or musical to celebrate the Christmas season. “We would be...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey is enacting precautions for international travel, requiring a negative COVID-19 test for passengers to enter the country starting Monday until March. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted a statement Friday saying...
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Soumaila Cissé, Mali’s main opposition leader who was held hostage for six months earlier this year by jihadists and was considered a leading contender in the 2022 presidential election, has died in Paris...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after president-elect Joe...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s normally joyful and lively Christmas celebrations have been dampened by the spike in new cases and deaths driven by the country’s variant of COVID-19. A record number of 14,305 news cases have...
ATLANTA (AP) — The United States will require airline passengers from Britain to get a negative COVID-19 test before their flight, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late Thursday. The US is the latest country to...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis made a Christmas Day plea for authorities to make COVID-19 vaccines available to all, insisting that the first in line should be the most vulnerable and needy, regardless of who holds the patents for the shots...
ROME (AP) — Curfews, quarantines and even border closings complicated Christmas celebrations Friday for countless people around the globe, but ingenuity, determination, and imagination helped keep the day special for many. Pope Francis...
Two new studies give encouraging evidence that having COVID-19 may offer some protection against future infections. Researchers found that people who made antibodies to the coronavirus were much less likely to test positive again for up to six...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hard-hit California eclipsed two million coronavirus cases on Christmas Eve as the US headed into a holiday season of travel and family gatherings that threaten to fuel the deadly outbreak across the nation. Despite...
NEW YORK — The number of passengers screened for flights in the United States topped nearly 1.2 million Wednesday for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic outbreak, but it’s still about 38.5% below the same Wednesday last...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An intensive care nurse in Mexico City Thursday became the first person in Latin America to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine. Mexico began administering the first 3,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in a...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Just a week before the deadline, Britain and the European Union struck a free-trade deal Thursday that should avert economic chaos on New Year’s and bring a measure of certainty for businesses after years of Brexit...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa’s top public health official said Thursday, but he added that further investigation was needed. The discovery could add to new alarm...
