NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan doctors and other crucial medical personnel in public hospitals Monday started a nationwide strike to protest the lack of personal protective equipment and health insurance for frontline workers fighting against...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s ruling party-dominated Congress passed a law Monday that would essentially ban opposition candidates from running in the 2021 presidential elections. The law gives the government of President Daniel...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s overwhelmed hospitals are setting up makeshift extra beds for coronavirus patients, and a handful of facilities in hard-hit Los Angeles County are drawing up emergency plans in case they have to limit how...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration political appointees tried to block or change more than a dozen government reports that detailed scientific findings about the spread of the coronavirus, a House panel investigating the alleged...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency recommended conditional approval Monday for a coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer to be used across the European Union, weeks after the shot was first authorised in Britain and...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has announced that a new variant of the COVID-19 virus is driving the country’s current resurgence of the disease, which is seeing higher numbers of confirmed cases, hospitalisations, and deaths. The new...
They took with them with donkeys and beds and motorcycles and colourful cloths that they now drape over pipes to create shelters. Others left their shoes behind as they crossed a river to safety. Tens of thousands of Ethiopians who just weeks ago...
DUBAI (AP): Dozens of journalists at Al-Jazeera, the Qatari state-owned media company, have been targeted by advanced spyware in an attack likely linked to the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a cybersecurity...
KANKARA (AP): Nigeria’s freed schoolboys have reunited with their joyful parents after being held captive for nearly a week by gunmen allied with jihadist rebels in the country’s northwest. Relieved parents hugged their sons tightly on...
BERLIN (AP): A growing list of European Union nations moved to ban flights from the U.K. on Sunday and others were considering similar action, in a bid to block a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England from spreading to the...
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (AP) — Initial shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorised in the United States left a distribution centre Sunday, a desperately needed boost as the nation works to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. The...
BERLIN (AP) — Several European Union nations moved to banned flights from the U.K. on Sunday and others were considering similar action, in a bid to block a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England from establishing a strong...
The Caribbean Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) says that, in the wake of the influx of migrants from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) should be asked to help with the crisis...
MOSCOW (AP): While Excitement and enthusiasm greeted the Western-developed coronavirus vaccine when it was rolled out, the Russian-made version has received a mixed response, with reports of empty Moscow clinics that offered the shot to healthcare...
KABUL (AP): In his three combat tours in Afghanistan, General Mark Milley saw the Taliban as a formidable foe, one unlikely to “fade away in the dust”, as he put it in 2013. This week, Milley, now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sat across...
WASHINGTON (AP): The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose again last week to 885,000, the highest weekly total since September, as a resurgence of coronavirus cases threatens the economy’s recovery from its springtime...
CARACAS (AP): Twinkling Christmas lights have been turned off in the remote fishing village of Güiria in Venezuela as hundreds mourn and gather on its shores to await word of loved ones who remain missing after two boats carrying some 40 migrants...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): The European Union has postponed €90 million (US$109 million) in budgetary support to Ethiopia over lack of access to the country’s Tigray region to deliver humanitarian aid amid the conflict. The delay in the funding, which was...
PARIS (AP): The fugitive widow of an Islamic State (IS) gunman and a man described as his logistician were convicted Wednesday of terrorism charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison in the trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 Paris...
Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2020 | 12:26 AM
NEW DELHI (AP): With Americans, Britons and Canadians rolling up their sleeves to receive coronavirus vaccines, the route out of the pandemic now seems clear to many in the West, even if the rollout will take many months. But for poorer countries,...
Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2020 | 12:26 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): The Haitian government on Monday opened a consulate general in the city of Dakhla, in the north-western African nation of Morocco. This makes the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state the first non-Arab...
Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2020 | 12:26 AM
HAMILTON (CMC): Rena Lalgie, Bermuda’s first black and female governor, was sworn into office on Monday during a closed ceremony at Government House. Lalgie, who arrived from Britain on Sunday, said: “It is a privilege to have begun my service as...
Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2020 | 12:25 AM
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): National Security Minister Stuart Young has denied that personnel from the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard had any involvement in the circumstances which led to the deaths of a group of Venezuelan nationals. According to...
KOIDU (AP): The man first caught a glimpse of Marie Kamara as she ran with her friends past his house near the village primary school. Soon after, he proposed to the fifth-grader. “I’m going to school now. I don’t want to get married and stay in...
TORONTO (AP): Canada administered its first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, becoming one of the first countries to do so in the effort to beat back the pandemic. Five front-line workers in Ontario were among the first Canadians to receive...
