PUCALLPA (AP): Two of Lidia Choque’s close family members had already got sick with the new coronavirus when the mosquitoes arrived. The 53-year-old woman lives in a wooden house near the airport of a Peruvian city in the Amazon rainforest. City...
LA PAZ (AP): A final official vote count released Friday gave leftist Luis Arce a smashing victory in Bolivia’s presidential election, a vindication for the Movement Toward Socialism party of ousted President Evo Morales, who was barred from...
KIGALI (AP): A court in Rwanda has ordered that Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, remain in detention for 30 more days to allow prosecutors to gather evidence ahead of his trial on terrorism-related charges....
LA GUAIRA (AP): At least some Venezuelans headed back to the beach on Friday as the government relaxed lockdown measures aimed at stifling the new coronavirus. It had been seven months since tourists flung themselves into the beach chairs set out...
WASHINGTON (AP): US officials said that Russian hackers have targeted the networks of dozens of state and local governments in the United States in recent days, stealing data from at least two servers. The warning, less than two weeks before the...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — At least 51 civilians have been killed in Nigeria’s unrest following days of peaceful protests over police abuses, the president said Friday, blaming “hooliganism” for the violence while asserting that...
MIAMI (AP) — A weakened Hurricane Epsilon moved northward Friday over the Atlantic Ocean, a day after skirting well east of Bermuda. Epsilon’s top sustained winds fell Thursday to 85 miles per hour, dropping it from a Category 2 to a...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Across the globe, Pope Francis’ comments endorsing same-sex civil unions were received by some as encouragement for an advancing struggle and condemned by others as an earth-shaking departure from church doctrine. In the...
WASHINGTON (AP): US officials said Thursday that Russian hackers have targeted the networks of dozens of state and local governments in the United States in recent days, stealing data from at least two servers. The warning, less than two weeks...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first drug to treat COVID-19: remdesivir, an antiviral medicine given through an IV for patients needing hospitalisation. The drug, which California-based Gilead Sciences Inc is calling...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP): A Minnesota judge has dismissed a third-degree murder charge filed against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck, saying there was not enough probable cause for that count to...
ST PAUL, Minneapolis (AP): An obituary for a Minneapolis-area woman who died at age 93 included one specific request for her mourners: Do not vote for Donald Trump. Georgia May Adkins, of Inver Grove Heights, died of a stroke on September 28 at...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP): Nigerian protesters demanding an end to police brutality defied a curfew and faced off with security forces Wednesday as gunfire rang out and fires burned in Lagos, a day after shots were fired into a crowd of demonstrators...
ROME (AP): Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pontiff while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary Francesco, which premiered Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival. The papal thumbs up came midway through...
MEILLE, Haiti (AP): Ten years after a cholera epidemic swept through Haiti and killed nearly 10,000 people, families of victims still struggle financially and await compensation from the United Nations (UN) as many continue to drink from, and...
LONDON (AP): Britain’s Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that a government policy that gave migrants as little as 72 hours’ notice before they are deported is unlawful. Under the rule, asylum seekers or migrants whose applications failed were told...
LONDON (AP): Danica Marcos wants to be infected with COVID-19. While other people are wearing masks and staying home to avoid the disease, the 22-year-old Londoner has volunteered to contract the new coronavirus as part of a controversial study...
THE VALLEY: The OECS Bar Association (OECS Bar) has “strongly condemned’ what it termed “the recent vicious attacks” on the Grenada-based High Court judge, Justice Raulston Glasgow, following his decision last week to dismiss 10 election petitions...
USHUAIA (AP): At the edge of Argentina in a city known as ‘The End of the World’, many thought they might be spared from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Sitting far from the South American nation’s bustling capital, health workers in...
The United States Government’s top public health agency is raising the importance of wearing face masks on planes, trains, and buses, although the Trump administration has resisted making masks mandatory for travellers. The Centers for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Attorney General William Barr to immediately launch an investigation of Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter, effectively demanding that the Justice Department muddy his political...
Matthew Davidson was beating his heroin addiction. The 31-year-old was attending group recovery meetings. He had a restaurant job he liked. He was a doting uncle to a baby nephew. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Davidson lost his job. He...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities say nearly 2,000 inmates have broken out of jail after crowds attacked two prisons in the latest unrest to hit Africa’s most populous nation. Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Manga said two...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for antitrust violations, alleging that it abused its dominance in online search and advertising to stifle competition and harm consumers. The lawsuit marks the government’...
USHUAIA, Argentina (AP) — At the edge of Argentina in a city known as “The End of the World,” many thought they might be spared from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Sitting far from the South American nation’s...
