BEIRUT — Lebanon, still grappling with the aftermath of the August 4 blast that killed 180 people and wounded thousands, has registered a record daily number of coronavirus infections, with 439 people contracting the virus and six fatalities...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare summer thunderstorm brought lightning that sparked several small blazes in Northern California on Sunday and stoked a huge forest fire that has forced hundreds of people from their homes north of Los Angeles. More...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s security forces on Sunday ended a nearly five-hour siege by Islamic extremists at a beachside hotel in Somalia’s capital, said police and a government spokesman. At least 15 people were killed...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — When Floridians overwhelmingly approved a measure allowing most felons to vote after completing their sentences, many expected Democrats to benefit most from the participation of up to 1.4 million newly...
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Josephine was expected to weaken as it skirts islands in the Caribbean and Tropical Storm Kyle was moving away from the continental United States, forecasters said Saturday night. Threats to land continued to be...
ROME (AP) — Cruise ship passengers were having their temperatures checked and taking COVID-19 tests Sunday so they could set sail on what is being billed as the first Mediterranean cruise after Italy’s pandemic lockdown. The cruise ship...
LONDON (AP) — The British government was urged Sunday to “get a grip” over how grades are being awarded to school students in England, who were unable to take exams earlier this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic. The...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese President Michel Aoun said the probe into this month’s devastating blast in Beirut is “very complex” and would not be finished quickly. Responding to calls that he step down, Aoun told French TV...
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — The biggest fear is a fishhook puncturing the inner tube that keeps them afloat far from shore. Then come sharks grabbing their catch and maybe biting their legs. And the current that threatens to pull them out to...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s prime minister said Saturday his country has done well in containing the coronavirus pandemic and announced $1.46 trillion in infrastructure projects to boost the sagging economy. The key lesson India learned...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations launched a $565 million appeal Friday to help Lebanese people affected by the explosion at Beirut’s port with immediate humanitarian assistance and initial recovery efforts. UN spokesman...
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Kyle was moving away from the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States early Saturday as Tropical Storm Josephine continued its crawl toward islands in the Caribbean. Threats to land appeared to be minimal from both...
BEIRUT (AP) — There can be no financial bailout for Lebanon, a senior United States official said Saturday, calling on the country’s political leaders to heed popular calls for change, real reform, and an end to endemic corruption...
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of British tourists beat a hasty retreat from France, packing out planes, trains and ferries to return to the United Kingdom by the early hours of Saturday morning to avoid a mandatory 14-day quarantine at home....
PARIS (AP) — New flareups of COVID-19 are disrupting the peak summer vacation season across much of Europe, where authorities in some countries are reimposing restrictions on travellers, closing nightclubs again, banning fireworks displays...
UTICA, N Y (AP) — A federal judge threw out a lawsuit by an Arizona woman who claimed New York’s 14-day quarantine requirement for travellers from hotspot coronavirus states infringed on her “fundamental right to travel.” US...
TORONTO (AP) — The Canada-United States border will remain closed to non-essential travel for at least another month, Canada’s public safety minister said Friday. The statement by Public Safety Minister Bill Blair came a day after...
MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration has seized the cargo of four tankers it was targeting for transporting Iranian fuel to Venezuela, US officials said Thursday, as it steps up its campaign of maximum pressure against the two heavily...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged that he’s starving the US Postal Service of money to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worries could cost him reelection. In an...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s judicial investigation of the Beirut port explosion started with political wrangling over the naming of a lead investigator, military threats to jail leakers and doubts over whether a panel appointed along...
LOS ANGELES (AP): THE POSSIBLE election of US Senator Kamala Harris as vice-president has set off a fierce competition in California to replace her, with contenders already pressuring Governor Gavin Newsom for what could be a once-in-a-lifetime...
BEIRUT (AP): The FBI will join Lebanese and other international investigators in the probe of the massive explosion at Beirut’s port that killed more than 170 people, injured thousands and caused widespread destruction, a US diplomat said Thursday...
NASSAU: Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis, Deputy Prime Minister K. Peter Turnquest and Education Minister Jeff Lloyd have entered voluntary self-quarantine after their offices were exposed to COVID-19. In a statement, the Cabinet Office announced...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The secretary of State in the United States, Mike Pompeo, on Thursday said that the United States is suspending private charter flights to Cuba as another way to starve the government in Havana of revenue. In making his...
JERUSALEM (AP): ISRAEL AND the United Arab Emirates, UAE, announced yesterday they are establishing full diplomatic relations in a US-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex occupied West Bank land sought by the...
