YEREVAN, Armenia (AP): Fighting erupted anew Sunday between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, and a top territorial official said 16 people were killed and more than 100 wounded, while...
BEIJING (AP): The remains of 117 Chinese soldiers who died in the 1950-53 Korean War were returned to China on Sunday in an annual repatriation delayed this year by the coronavirus outbreak. South Korea handed over the remains at a ceremony at...
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — As millions of Americans struggle to pay their rent during the coronavirus pandemic, landlords are going to courts, claiming that the national eviction moratorium unfairly strains their finances and violates their...
NEW YORK (AP) — First it was toilet paper. Disinfectant wipes. Beans. Coins. Computers. Now, desks are in short supply because of the coronavirus pandemic. Millions of kids logging onto virtual school this fall...
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV infection, says he is now terminally ill from a recurrence of the cancer that prompted his historic treatment 12 years ago. Brown, dubbed “the Berlin patient” because...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and her family are facing a 35-million pound hit from the coronavirus pandemic, partly due to a shortage of tourists, the monarch’s money-manager said Friday. Releasing the royal...
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese health official said Friday that the country’s annual production capacity for coronavirus vaccines will top one billion doses next year, following an aggressive government support program for construction of new...
WASHINGTON (AP): A huge international study of a COVID-19 vaccine that aims to work with just one dose is getting under way as top US health officials sought Wednesday to assure a sceptical Congress and public that they can trust any shots the...
HAMILTON (CMC): Premier David Burt and Opposition Leader Craig Cannonier have engaged in a war of words after the island’s largest hotel confirmed it is closing for 18 months for renovations, putting hundreds of Bermudians out of work. The 18-month...
A leading trade unionist and independent senator in Barbados has switched sides and joined forces with the ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) of Prime Minister Mia Mottley. The prime minister announced during a press briefing that Barbados Workers...
PARIS (AP) — Another COVID-19 problem that the United Nations is trying to solve: how to help more than 300,000 merchant mariners who are trapped at sea because of coronavirus restrictions. Describing the mounting desperation of seafarers who...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — African nations came out swinging on the third day of the United Nations annual gathering of world leaders Thursday, calling for dramatic fiscal measures to help economies survive the coronavirus pandemic — which one...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s niece followed up her best-selling, tell-all book with a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the president and two of his siblings cheated her out of millions of dollars over several decades while squeezing her...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s treasury chief announced a new income support program Thursday for workers hurt by the coronavirus pandemic as the government races to prevent widespread layoffs when earlier employer subsidies end next month....
Published:Wednesday | September 23, 2020 | 2:31 PM
VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian consumer protection group said Wednesday it has filed four civil lawsuits against the country’s government for failing to contain a coronavirus outbreak at an Alpine ski resort that has been blamed for...
Published:Wednesday | September 23, 2020 | 9:27 AM
Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus. The study starting Wednesday will be one of the world’s largest coronavirus vaccine studies so far, testing...
Published:Wednesday | September 23, 2020 | 12:11 AM
JOHANNESBURG (AP): At a lecture to peers this month, John Nkengasong showed images that once dogged Africa, with a magazine cover declaring it ‘The Hopeless Continent’. Then he quoted Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah: “It is clear that we...
Published:Wednesday | September 23, 2020 | 12:09 AM
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The leader of the main opposition United National Congress (UNC), Kamla Persad Bissessar, has brushed aside calls for her to step down following the party’s defeat in the August 10 general election, telling her detractors she...
Published:Wednesday | September 23, 2020 | 12:09 AM
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The head of the Anglican Church in Barbados, Reverend Michael Maxwell, says the church is not supportive of the idea by the Mia Motley government to recognise same-sex unions. Bishop Maxwell told the online publication, Barbados...
The United States death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, a figure unimaginable eight months ago when the scourge first reached the world’s richest nation with its sparkling laboratories, top-flight scientists and...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A wildfire scorching its way through brush and timber from the mountains to the desert northeast of Los Angeles threatened more than 1,000 homes on Tuesday as crews across the West battled dozens of other major blazes. The...
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Britons on Tuesday that they should not expect to return to a normal social or work life for at least six months, as he ordered new restrictions that he hopes will suppress a dramatic surge in...
WASHINGTON (AP): The United States slapped additional sanctions on Iran on Monday after the Trump administration’s disputed unilateral weekend declaration that all United Nations penalties eased under the 2015 nuclear deal had been restored. The...
NEW DELHI (AP): A residential building that was due for repairs collapsed in central India early Monday, killing at least 10 people and trapping many others, officials said. Approximately 20-25 people are feared to be trapped under the rubble of...
LONDON (AP): British medical officers raised the nation’s COVID-19 alert level on Monday, saying the virus is in general circulation and the transmission is high. The move comes as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce...
