BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — A stream of marching bands joyously paraded through Bethlehem on Thursday, but few people were there to greet them as the coronavirus pandemic and a strict lockdown dampened Christmas Eve celebrations in the...
BERLIN (AP): The United Nations human rights office said on Wednesday that it’s “deeply concerned” by United States President Donald Trump’s pardons of four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a...
NAIROBI (AP): The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission says more than 100 people have been killed in the latest massacre along ethnic lines in the western part of the country. The Amhara Mass Media Agency, affiliated with the country’s Amhara region,...
DOVER (AP): Gridlock at an English port kept thousands of truckers and travellers stranded on Wednesday, despite a deal with France to lift a two-day blockade imposed because of a new variant of the coronavirus that had isolated Britain and raised...
NASSAU (CMC): Health Minister Renward Wells says the territory is closely monitoring the situation in the United Kingdom (UK) following reports of a virulent strain of the coronavirus emerging in that country. According to Wells, there are no...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The health ministry here has confirmed that a front-line healthcare provider has become its first medical professional to record a positive COVID-19 test. “In the last 24 hours, Grenada has recorded two new cases of COVID-19,...
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union and British negotiators closed in on a trade deal Wednesday, raising hopes a chaotic economic break between the two sides on New Year’s Day could be averted, officials said. After resolving a few remaining...
TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Some are elderly and figure they don’t have many Christmases left. Others are trying to keep long-distance romance alive. Some just yearn for the human connection that’s been absent for the past nine months...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2020 | 11:51 AM
An agricultural company in Washington state where two workers died from COVID-19 was fined more than $2 million for repeatedly violating coronavirus virus safety procedures. “It’s unacceptable to choose to ignore health and safety rules...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2020 | 11:45 AM
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru passed one million confirmed cases of coronavirus infection Tuesday, becoming the fifth nation in Latin America to report that number as the region struggles with the pandemic’s economic and health effects....
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2020 | 10:58 AM
DOVER, England (AP) — Gridlock at an English port kept thousands of truckers and travellers stranded Wednesday despite a deal with France to lift a two-day blockade imposed because of a new variant of the coronavirus that had isolated Britain...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer and BioNTech will supply the United States with an additional 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine under a second agreement. The drugmakers said Wednesday that they expect to deliver all the doses by July 31....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans who were strong and early supporters, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former government contractors...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department sued Walmart on Tuesday, accusing it of fuelling the nation’s opioid crisis by pressuring its pharmacies to fill even potentially suspicious prescriptions for the powerful painkillers. The civil...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s divided government was heading toward collapse at midnight Tuesday, a step that would trigger the country’s fourth election in under two years and pose an unprecedented threat to Prime Minister Benjamin...
LONDON (AP) — Over 2,800 stranded truck drivers hoped to get the green light Tuesday to leave Britain and get back home for Christmas as the country found itself increasingly isolated and its trade bottled up, cut off by neighbours afraid of...
NEW YORK (AP) — This is the deadliest year in United States history, with deaths expected to top three million for the first time — due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic. Final mortality data for this year will not be available for...
BERLIN (AP) — German pharmaceutical company BioNTech is confident that its coronavirus vaccine works against the new UK variant, but further studies are needed to be completely sure, its chief executive said Tuesday. The variant,...
LONDON (AP) — Stranded Europe-bound truckers hoped Tuesday to receive the green light to get out of Britain soon after some of the most dramatic travel restrictions of the pandemic were imposed on the country following the discovery of a...
BRUSSELS (AP): Problems increased on Monday in the attempt to secure a trade deal between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) before a Brexit transition period ends on New Year’s Day, with the EU legislature insisting the drawn-out...
NAIROBI (AP): Kenyan doctors and other crucial medical personnel in public hospitals on Monday started a nationwide strike to protest the lack of personal protective equipment and health insurance for front-line workers fighting against the spread...
LONDON (AP): Two members of an international people-smuggling gang were convicted of manslaughter on Monday over the deaths of 39 people from Vietnam whose bodies were found in the back of a container truck in southeastern England. A jury at London...
BERLIN (AP): Countries trying to keep alive the 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear programme agreed on Monday to “positively address” the possibility of a US return to the accord under the incoming Biden administration. Germany’s foreign minister urged...
LONDON (AP): Trucks waiting to get out of Britain backed up for miles and people were left stranded at airports on Monday as countries around the world slapped tough travel restrictions on the UK because of a new and seemingly more contagious...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The United States Embassy here has stated that the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and those who back him, must be blamed for the crisis facing the South American nation. In a statement on Sunday, the Port-of-...
