Published:Wednesday | November 18, 2020 | 12:14 PM
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling immigrant children who cross the southern border alone, halting a policy that has resulted in thousands of rapid deportations of minors during the...
Pfizer said Wednesday that new test results show its coronavirus vaccine is 95% effective, is safe and also protects older people most at risk of dying — last data needed to seek emergency use of limited shot supplies even as the catastrophic...
Newly re-elected Brooklyn Congresswoman Yvette Clarke has said that the incoming Biden-Harris administration has already opened discussions with the Caribbean on developmental goals to benefit the region. Speaking Sunday night on the radio...
Published:Wednesday | November 18, 2020 | 12:16 AM
BRUSSELS (AP): NATO could pay a heavy price for leaving Afghanistan too early, its chief warned yesterday after a US official said President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw a significant number of American troops from the conflict-ravaged...
Published:Wednesday | November 18, 2020 | 12:16 AM
CAPE TOWN (AP): A preacher who calls himself a prophet has triggered anger, a diplomatic incident, and a good amount of head scratching by authorities in South Africa after skipping bail, fleeing the country and emerging in his home nation of...
Two COVID-19 vaccines might be nearing the finish line, but scientists caution it’s critical that enough people volunteer to help finish studying other candidates in the United States and around the world. Moderna Inc. and competitor Pfizer...
LONDON (AP) — British Airways said Tuesday that it will start testing passengers flying from the United States to London’s Heathrow Airport for COVID-19 in an effort to persuade the British government it should scrap rules...
A hearing on the Trump campaign’s federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results remains on track for Tuesday after a judge quickly denied the campaign’s new lawyer’s request for a delay...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — In a one-two punch, Hurricane Iota roared ashore as a dangerous Category 4 storm along almost exactly the same stretch of Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast that was devastated by an equally powerful Hurricane Eta 13...
BRUSSELS (AP): European Union (EU) and British negotiators on Monday entered yet another tension-filled week as they sought a belated post-Brexit trade deal that needs to be vetted and get legislative approval before a January 1 cut-off date. With...
DUBAI (AP): President Donald Trump’s national security adviser promised a “very professional transition” to the administration of President-elect Joe Biden in an interview broadcast on Monday, even as Trump continues to falsely claim he won the...
PARIS (AP): French President Emmanuel Macron held a closed-door, low-key meeting on Monday with US President Donald Trump’s top diplomat, a delicate tiptoe around the ticklish fact that France has already recognised President-elect Joe Biden as the...
The number of United States infants, children and teens diagnosed with COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million, according to data released Monday by the American Academy of Paediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. The total hit nearly 1....
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development is conducting an audit of minor water supplies islandwide in furtherance of improvement measures outlined in the National Water Sector Policy and Implementation Plan 2019. Two of the measures...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday he had to face a tough decision on whether to allow a big city to be flooded, or to direct excess water to poorer, more sparsely populated Indigenous...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has recorded 65 cases of the coronavirus among staff based at its headquarters, including at least one cluster of infections, an internal email obtained by The Associated Press shows, despite the...
Moderna said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine is proving to be highly effective in a major trial, a second dash of hope in the global race for a shot to tame a resurgent virus that is now killing more than 8,000 people a day worldwide. The company said...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota, the strongest hurricane yet in this record-smashing season, became very dangerous Category 4 on Monday as it approached the same part of Central America battered by a similarly...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The head of the World Food Program (WFP) says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the United Nations (UN) agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without...
LIMA (AP): Peru’s interim president resigned Sunday as the nation plunged into its worst constitutional crisis in two decades, following massive protests unleashed when the Congress ousted the nation’s popular leader. In a short televised address...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The Trump administration Friday recognised the November 5 general elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines while refusing to accept the resounding victory for US President-elect Joe Biden two days earlier. “The United States...
Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has ordered that a police officer be issued with a TT$1,000 (approximately J$21,815) ticket for breaching the Public Health Ordinance Regulations by not wearing a mask in public...
(AP): Dr Biplav Srivastava, professor of computer science at the University of South Carolina in the United States, and his team have developed a data-driven tool that helps demonstrate the effect of wearing masks on COVID-19 cases and deaths....
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): When a garbage collector came to Ghina Ghaliya’s house in the Indonesian capital and asked if she had an old mobile phone his children could use to access the Internet, it sparked an idea for a broader campaign to help...
NEW YORK (AP): Would you buy something you can’t see? That’s the question posed by two New York brothers who’ve lost much of their vision to a rare degenerative eye disorder and have dedicated their lives – and livelihoods – to raising money for a...
