Do not travel over the upcoming holidays. But if you must, consider getting coronavirus tests before and after, US health officials urged Wednesday. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that the best way to stay safe...
LONDON (AP): Facebook said yesterday it will start removing false claims about COVID-19 vaccines, in its latest move to counter a tide of coronavirus-related online misinformation. In the coming weeks, the social network will begin taking down any...
WUHAN (AP): In the early days in Wuhan, the first city struck by the virus, getting a COVID test was so difficult that residents compared it to winning the lottery. Throughout the Chinese city in January, thousands of people waited in hours-long...
The United States recorded over 3,100 COVID-19 deaths in a single day, obliterating the record set last spring, while the number of Americans in the hospital with the virus has eclipsed 100,000 for the first time and new cases have begun topping...
GETTING A COVID-19 vaccine to the right people could change the course of the pandemic in the United States. But who are the right people? As the decision looms for President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration, a new analysis argues for...
PARIS (AP): FRANCE AND the United Nations (UN) vowed Wednesday to keep providing humanitarian aid to Lebanon but urged the country’s leaders to form a new government as a political deadlock in Beirut has blocked billions of dollars in assistance...
PRESIDENT-ELECT Joe Biden says he will not immediately lift tariffs placed by President Donald Trump on many imports from China or break Trump’s initial trade deal. Biden says he wants to maximise his leverage in future talks with the United States...
LONDON (AP): BRITAIN BECAME the first country in the world to authorise a rigorously tested COVID-19 vaccine yesterday and could be dispensing shots within days – a historic step towards eventually ending the outbreak that has killed more than 1.4...
OMAHA, Nebraska (AP): UNITED STATES hospitals slammed with COVID-19 patients are trying to lure nurses and doctors out of retirement, recruiting students and new graduates who have yet to earn their licences, and offering eye-popping salaries in a...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Dozens of gunmen armed with assault rifles invaded a city in southern Brazil overnight Tuesday and took control of the streets as they assaulted a local bank. Video broadcast on the Globo television network showed hooded men...
BEIJING (AP): A Chinese spacecraft landed on the moon Tuesday to bring back lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s, the government announced. The Chang’e 5 probe “successfully landed” at its planned site, state TV and news agencies...
JERUSALEM (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief governing partner said on Tuesday he would vote in favour of a proposal to dissolve their troubled coalition, accusing the Israeli leader of repeatedly breaking his promises and...
COLOMBO (AP): Eight inmates were killed and 59 others were injured when guards opened fire to control a riot at a prison on the outskirts of Sri Lanka’s capital, officials said Monday. Two guards were critically injured, they said. Pandemic-related...
BERLIN (AP): German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that Britain and the European Union (EU) would set a bad example if they fail to reach a deal on their future relationship but again insisted that the EU doesn’t want a deal at any price....
PARIS (AP): French activists fear that a proposed new security law will deprive them of a potent weapon against abuse – cellphone videos of police activity — threatening their efforts to document possible cases of police brutality, especially in...
LONDON (AP): Scotland’s leader said on Monday that she hopes to hold an independence referendum as soon as next year, setting up a political showdown with a UK government that refuses to countenance another secession vote. First Minister Nicola...
KABUL (AP): At least 34 people were killed on Sunday in two separate suicide bombings in Afghanistan that targeted a military base and a provincial chief, officials said. In eastern Ghazni province, 31 soldiers were killed and 24 others wounded...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro – who sometimes has embraced the label ‘Trump of the Tropics’ — said Sunday he’ll wait a little longer before recognising the US election victory of Joe Biden. Speaking to reporters while...
MAIDGURI (AP): Suspected members of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram killed at least 40 rice farmers and fishermen in Nigeria as they were harvesting crops in the country’s northern state of Borno, officials said. One said the death toll...
The coronavirus pandemic did not stop Jamaicans in the diaspora from celebrating Thanksgiving, but with a different feel this year, with a majority adhering to the guidelines set down by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by...
BANGKOK (AP): Thailand yesterday signed a $200-million deal to procure 26 million doses of a trial coronavirus vaccine developed by pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, in collaboration with Oxford University. It is expected to be delivered in mid-2021...
BRUSSELS (AP): The European Union (EU) said yesterday that another week of talks with Britain on a new trade deal has gone with barely any progress. Its chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, is heading to London for ever-more pressing weekend...
NAIROBI (AP): Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed again ruled out dialogue with the leaders of the defiant Tigray region yesterday but said he was willing to speak to representatives “operating legally” there during his meeting with three African...
DORI, Burkina Faso (AP): Balkissa Barro has been waiting for months to go back to school, but, now that she has, the 10-year-old fears classes might once again stop. Children returning to school in Burkina Faso’s volatile Sahel region have to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods like firing squads and poison...
