GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) says 90% of countries that responded in a new survey reported fallout from COVID-19 on the provision of other health care services like immunisation, family planning services, and cancer and...
LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (AP) — In a matter of hours last week, Hurricane Laura tore through the tire shop Layla Winbush’s family started just under a year ago, reducing most of it to rubble and scattering hundreds of tires across...
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Saturday removed Jamaica from its select list of Caribbean countries from which British citizens do not have to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine when they return home. The office has issued a...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Kobe Bryant. Representative John Lewis. And now, Chadwick Boseman. So far, 2020 has been marred with bad news and tragedy with the sudden deaths of several popular Black icons, including Bryant, Lewis and, recently, Boseman, who...
ROME (AP): The arrival of hundreds of migrants crammed into a rickety fishing boat has worsened the severe overcrowding at shelters on a tiny Italian island, triggering an angry demonstration by islanders and a vow on Sunday by the mayor to call a...
LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people across Louisiana were still without power or water Friday, a day after Laura sawed a devastating path through the state, killing at least 11 people, and officials warned that...
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (AP) — A Jamaican man has been sentenced to five years and six months in federal prison in the United States for running a lottery scheme in Florida and his home country. A federal judge in Jacksonville last week...
LONDON (AP) — Britain is preparing to revise its laws to allow the emergency use of any effective coronavirus vaccine before it is fully licensed — but only if the shots meet required safety and quality standards. In a statement Friday...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said Friday he is stepping down because a chronic health problem has resurfaced. He told reporters that it was “gut wrenching” to leave many of his goals...
PARIS (AP): A mother and her three children scanned the school supplies in a Paris supermarket, plucking out multicoloured fountain pens, crisp notebooks – and plenty of masks. Despite resurgent coronavirus infections, similar scenes are unfolding...
ROAD TOWN (AP): The Governor of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Augustus Jaspert, has announced a lockdown of the British overseas territory as it seeks to deal with an upsurge in the number of COVID-19 cases. The BVI has recorded one death and...
Kenosha, Wisconsin (AP): It took three days, an outpouring of anger in the streets and a NBA boycott before authorities investigating the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, started answering some of the most basic questions about...
LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (AP): One of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the US pounded the Gulf Coast on Thursday, shearing off roofs and killing a least four people, as Laura barrelled across Louisiana and maintained ferocious strength, while...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Thursday that countries should actively test people to find coronavirus cases even if they don’t show symptoms — a stance that comes after the US health agency switched its policy...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday faced tough questioning by lawmakers over COVID-19 corruption scandals, days after he asked ruling party members to refrain from stealing money meant for the poor. Many...
LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana — Early reports emerging in the wake of Hurricane Laura show less damage than what was feared. The eye passed directly over Lake Charles, where drone video shows roofs ripped off, exposing living rooms to the elements...
PARIS (AP) — A mother and her three children scanned the school supplies in a Paris supermarket, plucking out multicoloured fountain pens, crisp notebooks – and plenty of masks. Despite resurgent coronavirus infections, similar scenes...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the first time the maximum available sentence has...
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States officials said Wednesday there has been no intelligence to suggest that foreign countries are working to undermine mail-in voting and no signs of any coordinated effort to commit widespread fraud through...
DELCAMBRE, Louisiana AP) — Laura strengthened Wednesday into a menacing Category 4 hurricane, raising fears of a 20-foot storm surge that forecasters said would be “unsurvivable” and capable of sinking entire communities....
BERLIN (AP) — Germany will end mandatory coronavirus tests for travellers returning from high-risk areas abroad and again focus its testing strategy on people with symptoms or possible exposure to COVID-19 patients, the country’s health...
MOSCOW (AP) — The mayor of Moscow invited residents Wednesday to join trials of a coronavirus vaccine that Russia approved for use earlier this month in what officials described as a breakthrough on par with the Soviet Union’s launch of...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Winter is ending in the Southern Hemisphere and country after country -- South Africa, Australia, Argentina -- had a surprise: their steps against COVID-19 also apparently blocked the flu. But there’s no guarantee...
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Hurricane Laura is forecast to rapidly power up into a “catastrophic” Category 4 hurricane, even stronger than previously expected, as it churns toward Texas and Louisiana, swirling wind and water over much...
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling — a development experts say most likely reflects more mask-wearing but also insufficient testing — even as the disease continues to claim...
