BERLIN (AP) — German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its US partner Pfizer say data on their coronavirus vaccine were “unlawfully accessed” during a cyberattack on the servers of the European Medicines Agency. The...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators on Wednesday sued to force a breakup of Facebook as 48 states and districts accused the company in a separate lawsuit of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors. The...
WASHINGTON — As states frantically prepare to begin months of vaccinations that could end the pandemic, a new poll finds only about half of Americans are ready to roll up their sleeves when their turn comes. The survey from The...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Commercial flights with Boeing 737 Max jetliners resumed Wednesday for the first time since they were grounded worldwide following two deadly accidents nearly two years ago. Brazil’s Gol Airlines became the first...
LONDON — United Kingdom regulators say people who have a “significant history” of allergic reactions shouldn’t receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine while they investigate two adverse reactions that occurred on the...
WASHINGTON (AP) : President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday made his case for retired Army General Lloyd Austin to be secretary of defense, urging Congress to waive a legal prohibition against a recently serving military officer running the Pentagon....
LONDON (AP): A nurse rolled up 90-year-old Margaret Keenan’s sleeve and administered a shot watched round the world – the first jab in the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme kicking off an unprecedented global effort to try to end a pandemic that...
JERUSALEM (AP): Gideon Saar, the leading rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inside the ruling Likud party, announced on Tuesday that he was breaking away to form a new political party ahead of elections expected early next year. In a...
Deaths from COVID-19 in the United States have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average, matching the frightening peak reached last April, and cases per day have eclipsed 200,000 on average for the first time on record, with the crisis all but...
New results on a possible COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca suggest it is safe and about 70% effective, but questions remain about how well it may help protect those over 55 — a key concern for a vaccine that health...
LONDON (AP) — A retired British shop clerk received the first shot in the country’s COVID-19 vaccination programme Tuesday, the start of an unprecedented global immunisation effort intended to offer a route out of a pandemic that has...
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco is gearing up for an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination programme, aiming to vaccinate 80% of its adults in an operation starting this month that’s relying initially on a Chinese vaccine that has not yet...
BRUSSELS (AP): Leaders of Britain and the European Union (E) held a high-stakes phone call on Monday for the second time in 48 hours, as the two sides sent out gloomy signals about the chances of breaking an impasse and securing a post-Brexit...
LONDON (AP): It’s been dubbed ‘V-Day’ in Britain, recalling the D-Day landings in France that marked the start of the final push in World War II to defeat Nazi Germany. A week after the United Kingdom (UK) became the first Western country to...
ACCRA (AP): Voters in Ghana cast their on ballots Monday for presidential and legislative elections likely to test the West African nation’s credentials as one of the continent’s most politically stable countries. There are 12 presidential...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar has been retained as political leader of the main opposition United National Congress (UNC) after her main challenger for the post, Vasant Bharath, a former trade minister, confirmed on...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Opposition Leader Tobias Clement on Monday chained himself to his table in the parliament as he made a statement in response to the EC$1.2 billion (EC$1 dollar=US$0.37 cents) that Finance Minister Gregory Bowen had presented to...
NEW DELHI (AP) — At least one person has died and 200 others have been hospitalised due to an unidentified illness in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, reports said Monday. The illness was detected Saturday evening in Eluru, an...
TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday Canada will get up to 249,000 doses of the vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech before the end of December. The vaccine is expected to be approved...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4...
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s back to school again for some New York City schoolchildren, weeks after the schools were closed to in-person learning because of rising COVID-19 cases. The nation’s largest public school system, which shut...
LONDON (AP) — Shipments of the coronavirus vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech were delivered Sunday in the United Kingdom in super-cold containers, two days before it goes public in an...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s political alliance claimed a sweeping victory Monday in congressional elections boycotted by the most influential opposition politicians and widely criticised...
HAMDAYET, Sudan (AP): Ethiopia’s month-long war in its northern Tigray region has severely hampered efforts to fight one of Africa’s worst coronavirus outbreaks, as the fighting has displaced almost one million people and strained local...
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis says the Christmas season provides reason for hope amid the difficulties of the coronavirus pandemic. During his Sunday blessing, Francis noted that the Vatican’s Christmas tree had gone up last week in St Peter’s...
