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Airline alliances urge COVID-19 testing over quarantines

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2020 | 9:42 AM

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Three global airline alliances are urging governments to put into practice common guidelines for passenger testing and digital health pass technology, to help people start flying again. Oneworld, Star Alliance and...

Tropical Storm Eta dumps blustery rain on Florida west coast

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2020 | 9:32 AM

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) — Tropical Storm Eta dumped torrents of blustery rain on Florida’s west coast as it moved over Florida after making landfall north of the heavily populated Tampa Bay area Thursday morning. The storm slogged...

Restaurant visited by positive COVID visitors fails to log visit

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2020 | 12:18 AM

ST GEORGE’S: GRENADA HEALTH authorities on Wednesday expressed their disappointment that one of the restaurants visited by a United States doctor and his wife, who later tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19), failed to properly document...

Government slams opposition leader over oil refinery statement

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2020 | 12:18 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN: The Trinidad and Tobago government yesterday accused Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar of seeking to undermine negotiations with a union-owned company regarding the sale of the refinery of the state-owned oil company,...

Pro-democracy lawmakers to resign en masse

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2020 | 12:17 AM

HONG KONG’S pro-democracy lawmakers announced on Wednesday that they would resign en masse after four of them were ousted from the semi-autonomous Chinese territory’s Legislature in a move one legislator said could sound the “death knell” for...

Biden moves forward without help from Trump’s intel team

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2020 | 12:17 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): THE PRESIDENTIAL race was hovering in limbo in 2000 when outgoing President Bill Clinton decided to let then-Governor George W. Bush read the ultra-secret daily brief of the nation’s most sensitive intelligence. Clinton was a...

Veterans Day in 2020: Quiet parades, sombre virtual events

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2020 | 12:17 AM

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP): CELEBRATIONS MARKING Veterans Day gave way to sombre virtual gatherings yesterday, with many of the nation’s veterans homes barring visitors to protect their residents from the surging coronavirus that has killed thousands of...

Money to support Trump court fight could flow to president

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 5:05 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump’s chances of reelection dwindled last week, his campaign began blasting out a nonstop stream of emails and text messages that led to a website raising money for an “election defence...

UK exceeds 50,000 coronavirus deaths

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 2:47 PM

LONDON — Britain has become the fifth country in the world to record more than 50,000 coronavirus-related deaths. The British government reports Wednesday another 595 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for COVID-19, the...

Trump wins Alaska, up to 217 electoral votes

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 1:48 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has won the state of Alaska. The Republican nominee was awarded the state’s three electoral votes, pushing his Electoral College tally to 217. His Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, was declared the...

Puerto Rico unearths uncounted ballots 1 week after election

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 12:34 PM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s elections commission said Tuesday that it has discovered more than 100 briefcases containing uncounted ballots a week after the US territory held its general election, drawing criticism...

Hurricanes stay stronger longer after landfall than in past

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 11:35 AM

Hurricanes are keeping their staying power longer once they make landfall, spreading more inland destruction, according to a new study. Warmer ocean waters from climate change are likely making hurricanes lose power more slowly after landfall,...

Eta regains hurricane strength as Florida prepares for hit

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 9:41 AM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Eta regained hurricane strength Wednesday morning as Florida braced for a second hit from the storm. The storm’s maximum sustained winds increased to around 75 miles per hour off Florida’s...

US hits record COVID-19 hospitalisations amid surge

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 9:27 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — The United States hit a record number of coronavirus hospitalisations Tuesday and surpassed one million new confirmed cases in just the first 10 days of November amid a nationwide surge of infections that shows no...

Biden labels Trump resistance ‘embarrassing’

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 12:16 AM

WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP): Vowing “to get right to work”, United States President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday shrugged off Donald Trump’s fierce refusal to accept the election outcome as “inconsequential”, even as Democrats elsewhere warned that the...

PAHO deploys 190,000 COVID tests to region

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 12:15 AM

WASHINGTON (CMC): The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Tuesday that it has deployed 190,000 new coronavirus antigen diagnostic tests donated to four countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and is conducting training to implement...

40,000 get COVID salary relief - Finance minister defends hike in tobacco tax

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 12:15 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago government said it has paid out more than TT$100 million in salary relief grants to persons here impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Finance Minister Colm Imbert told Parliament that TT$131 million had...

Jamaican Republicans back vote lawsuit assault

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 12:12 AMLester Hinds/Gleaner Writer

Jamaican expatriates who support the Republican Party have backed United States President Donald Trump’s decision to dig in his heels after a preliminary count showed him losing the November 3 elections. “I feel that we the people who voted for the...

UK nurse re-arrested on suspicion of murder in baby deaths

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2020 | 5:13 PM

LONDON (AP) — A British nurse has been arrested for the third time in relation to the deaths of more than a dozen babies at a hospital, police said Tuesday. Police said the woman was re-arrested on suspicion of murder in relation to the...

Trump creates new leadership group to raise money

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2020 | 4:23 PM

Washington -  President Donald Trump has created a new leadership PAC as he continues to refuse to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden. Paperwork for the Save America political action committee was filed with the Federal Election...

Final weeks of historic hurricane season bring new storms

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2020 | 3:50 PM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Just when you thought it should be safe to go back to the water, the record-setting tropics are going crazy. Again. Tropical Storm Eta is parked off the western coast of Cuba, dumping rain. When it finally...

UK defiant even after House of Lords rejects Brexit bill

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2020 | 1:25 PM

LONDON (AP) — The British government insisted Tuesday it will press ahead with legislation that breaks a legally binding Brexit treaty with the European Union, despite a resounding rejection of the bill by the upper house of Parliament. The...

US allows 1st emergency use of a COVID-19 antibody drug

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2020 | 9:55 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — United States health officials have allowed emergency use of the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19, an experimental approach against the virus that has killed more than 238,000 Americans. The...

Florida cities mop up after deluge from Tropical Storm Eta

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2020 | 9:32 AM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Tropical Storm Eta was squatting off western Cuba on Tuesday after drifting away from South Florida, where it unleashed a deluge that flooded entire neighbourhoods and filled some homes with rising water....

As COVID spikes, Europe runs low on ICU beds, hospital staff

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2020 | 9:27 AM

PARIS (AP) — In Italy, lines of ambulances park outside hospitals awaiting beds, and in France, the government coronavirus tracking app prominently displays the intensive care capacity taken up by COVID-19 patients: 92.5% and rising. In the...

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