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UK to infect healthy volunteers in coronavirus vaccine research trial

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2020 | 9:28 AM

LONDON (AP) — United Kingdom researchers are preparing to infect healthy young volunteers with the virus that causes COVID-19, becoming the first scientists to use the controversial technique to study the disease and potentially speed up...

‘It’s not really that bad!’ - Trump tries to buck up his team as polls show him trailing Biden

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2020 | 12:10 AM

LAS VEGAS (AP): President Donald Trump on Monday sought to buck up his campaign staffers two weeks from election day, dismissing the cautionary coronavirus advice of scientific experts, as well as polling showing him trailing Democratic rival Joe...

Anti-police protesters storm prison, free inmates

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2020 | 12:10 AM

LAGOS (AP): Nigeria’s protests against police brutality turned violent on Monday when a crowd stormed a prison and freed inmates in Benin City in southern Nigeria. Some prisoners jumped from a high fence of the institution while others were seen...

Opposition renews calls for Moise to step down

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2020 | 12:09 AM

PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): Opposition politicians on Monday said that they have no intention of collaborating with President Jovenel Moise as they staged protest demonstrations in the capital of the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country...

6 Russian military officers charged in vast hacking campaign

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 5:05 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced charges Monday against Russian intelligence officers in a string of global cyberattacks that targeted a French presidential election, the Winter Olympics in South Korea and American...

Trump says Sudan to be removed from terrorism list

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 4:03 PM

CAIRO (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday said Sudan will be removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism if it follows through on its pledge to pay $335 million to American terror victims and their families. The move...

South Africa’s health minister gets COVID-19 as cases rise

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 2:04 PM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that he and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19 and warned of a possible resurgence of the disease in the country. Mkhize and his wife got positive...

UK, EU inch toward more Brexit talks but hurdles remain

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 1:37 PM

LONDON (AP) — Britain and the European Union edged toward resuming their troubled trade talks on Monday, after the bloc’s chief negotiator said he was ready to “intensify” negotiations on the legal text of an agreement....

Florida begins early voting with no major problems reported

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 11:22 AM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Floridians began early voting in much of the state Monday with no serious problems reported as the Trump campaign tries to cut into an early advantage Democrats have posted in mail-in votes in the key swing...

Update | Tropical Storm Epsilon forms in the central Atlantic

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 11:15 AM

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Epsilon formed Monday morning in the central Atlantic, the latest in what has been a very active hurricane season. The storm had maximum sustained winds near 40 miles per hour. Additional strengthening was expected...

New tropical depression forms over central Atlantic

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 10:10 AM

MIAMI (AP) — A new tropical depression formed Monday morning over the central Atlantic, the latest in a very active hurricane season. The depression has maximum sustained winds near 35 miles per hour. But the US National Hurricane Center...

World struggles as confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 40 million

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 9:32 AM

LONDON (AP) — The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the planet has surpassed 40 million, but experts say that is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the true impact of the pandemic that has upended life and work around the...

Vaccine storage issues could leave 3 billion people without access

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 9:27 AM

GAMPELA, Burkina Faso (AP) — The chain breaks here, in a tiny medical clinic in Burkina Faso that went nearly a year without a working refrigerator. From factory to syringe, the world’s most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates need...

Undecided torn as election nears

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 7:25 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Amanda Jaronowski is torn. The lifelong Republican from suburban Cleveland supports President Donald Trump’s policies and fears her business could be gutted if Democrat Joe Biden is elected. But she abhors Trump personally,...

UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 7:24 AM

TEHRAN, Iran (AP): A decade-long UN arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite objections from the United States, which...

Churches march against plan to legalise same-sex unions

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 7:24 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The first in a series of marches to protest against plans to legalise same-sex unions in Barbados was held on Saturday. On Saturday morning, more than 200 church members marched through the town of Holetown in the parish of St...

COVID-positive persons will not be allowed to vote - PM

Published:Monday | October 19, 2020 | 7:24 AM

BELMOPAN (CMC): Prime Minister Dean Barrow says voters who have been required to be in self-isolation or have tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) ahead of the November 11 general election will not be allowed to vote. “It can’t be...

French leader decries terrorist beheading of teacher

Published:Friday | October 16, 2020 | 5:07 PM

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack” against a history teacher decapitated in a Paris suburb Friday, urging the nation to stand united against extremism. The teacher...

Authorities: Top Mexico official helped smuggle drugs to US

Published:Friday | October 16, 2020 | 4:37 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mexico’s former defence secretary helped smuggle thousands of kilogrammes of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States in exchange for bribes, according to court documents unsealed Friday....

Record avalanche of early votes transforms 2020 US election

Published:Friday | October 16, 2020 | 2:38 PM

Nearly 21 million Americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election, a record-shattering avalanche of early votes driven both by Democratic enthusiasm and a pandemic that has transformed the way the nation votes. The 20.8 million...

WHO study finds remdesivir didn’t help COVID-19 patients

Published:Friday | October 16, 2020 | 11:50 AM

GENEVA (AP) — A large study led by the World Health Organization suggests that the antiviral drug remdesivir did not help hospitalised COVID-19 patients, in contrast to an earlier study that made the medicine a standard of care in the United...

White House puts ‘politicals’ at CDC to try to control COVID information

Published:Friday | October 16, 2020 | 9:51 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump White House has installed two political operatives at the nation’s top public health agency to try to control the information it releases about the coronavirus pandemic as the administration seeks to paint a...

Study finds 4 drugs have little to no effect on COVID-19

Published:Friday | October 16, 2020 | 9:41 AM

GENEVA (AP) — The world’s largest randomised trial of COVID-19 treatments found “conclusive evidence” that remdesivir, a drug used to treat United States President Donald Trump when he fell ill, has little or no effect on...

Brexit trade talks: both EU and UK dig in heels

Published:Friday | October 16, 2020 | 9:30 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — With both sides digging in their heels as another Brexit deadline passed Thursday, the European Union and Britain demanded concessions from one another in talks on a basic trade deal that would soften the economic blow of the...

Election can help ease year of pain, turmoil

Published:Friday | October 16, 2020 | 12:08 AM

LA PAZ (AP): For Bolivia, the pandemic has been just part of the turmoil over the past 12 months. A disputed election, deadly riots. The toppling of Bolivia’s first Indigenous president in what his backers considered a coup. The rise to power of a...

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