WASHINGTON (AP): Less than three weeks from Election Day, majorities of Americans are highly critical of President Donald Trump’s handling of both the coronavirus pandemic and his own illness, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC...
NAIROBI (AP): Tanzania’s government is hoping helicopters and planes will help put out a fire raging on Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain at 19,443 feet (5,926 metres). Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Hamisi Kigwangalla said on...
Coronavirus cases around the world have climbed to all-time highs of more than 330,000 per day as the scourge comes storming back across Europe and spreads with renewed speed in the United States, forcing many places to reimpose tough restrictions...
Don’t expect much of a winter wallop this year, except for the pain of worsening drought, United States S government forecasters said Thursday. Two-thirds of the United States should get a warmer than normal winter, the National Oceanic...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s government declared a strict new state of emergency for the capital on Thursday, a day after a student-led protest against the country’s traditional establishment saw an extraordinary moment in which...
LONDON (AP) — London and seven other areas were shifted into Britain’s second-highest virus alert level on Thursday, as the government sought to slow an exponential rise in infection rates across the country. The move means millions...
United States regulators Wednesday approved the first drug for the treatment of Ebola. The Food and Drug Administration OK’d the drug developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for treating adults and children with the Zaire Ebola virus strain,...
WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP) — Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said Thursday that vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris will suspend in-person events until Monday after two people associated with the campaign tested positive for...
NAIROBI (AP): Kenyan authorities are investigating the death of a man who was detained for allegedly not wearing a face mask and was seen in police custody badly beaten. Later, his body was found floating in a river. The Independent Police...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump is being forced to play electoral college defence with a trip to Iowa, a state he won handily in 2016, but where Democrat Joe Biden is making a late push before the November 3 vote. Trump’s heavy travel this...
PRAGUE (AP): Dark splotches that indicate zones of high coronavirus contagion are staining maps of Europe blood red as governments scramble to prevent another round of total lockdowns, even by taking unpopular decisions to close schools, bars and...
GENEVA (AP) — In the wake of heat waves, global warming, forest fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, the United Nations weather agency warned Tuesday that the number of people who need international humanitarian help...
WASHINGTON — The World Bank says it has approved $12 billion in financing to help developing countries buy and distribute coronavirus vaccines, tests and treatments. The bank says the aim is to support the vaccination of up to 1 billion...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China, Russia and Cuba won seats on the United Nation's premiere human rights body Tuesday despite opposition from activist groups over their abysmal human rights records, but another target, Saudi Arabia, lost....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to put on hold an appeals court ruling that Trump’s accountant must immediately turn over tax records to a New York state prosecutor, setting up a...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government on Tuesday defended its new three-tier system of COVID-19 risks and restrictions, but critics suggested it was too little, too late amid reports that the government’s own scientific advisers had...
GENEVA (AP) — World Trade Organization arbitrators said Tuesday that the European Union can sanction up to $4 billion in US goods over Washington’s illegal support for plane maker Boeing. The ruling, which could inflame Trump...
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (AP) — A late-stage study of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been paused while the company investigates whether a study participant’s “unexplained illness” is...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund foresees a steep fall in international growth this year as the global economy struggles to recover from the pandemic-induced recession, its worst collapse in nearly a century. The IMF...
WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP): Joe Biden campaigned on Monday in Ohio, attempting to expand the battleground map and keep President Donald Trump on the defensive in a state thought to be out of reach for Democrats after Trump’s wide margin of victory...
LONDON (AP): A sheep farmer was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Monday for his plot to use baby food laced with metal shards to blackmail one of Britain’s biggest supermarket chains. Nigel Wright planted jars of the contaminated baby food in...
SRINAGAR (AP): Senior Indian and Chinese military commanders were holding fresh talks on Monday aimed at ending a months-long stand-off along their disputed border in the remote Ladakh region. The talks were being held on the Indian side of the...
LONDON (AP) — The British government carved England into three tiers of coronavirus risk on Monday in a bid to slow a resurgent outbreak, putting the northern city of Liverpool into the highest-risk category and shutting its pubs, gyms and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a week after his release from the hospital, President Donald Trump is returning to the campaign trail Monday for the first time since contracting the coronavirus as he tries to stage a late comeback in the election...
LONDON — The head of the World Health Organization warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the pandemic, calling such proposals “unethical.” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...
