COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Norwegian cruise ship line halted all trips and apologised Monday for procedural errors after an outbreak of coronavirus on one ship infected at least 5 passengers and 36 crew. Health authorities fear the ship...
KAMPALA (AP): After 23 days in quarantine in Uganda – far longer than required – Jimmy Spire Ssentongo walked free, in part because of a cartoon he drew. It showed a bound prisoner begging for liberation after multiple negative tests, while a...
When Stephanie Melendez, her husband and two young daughters tested positive for the coronavirus, the person she most wanted to call was her father. “I’m married. I have my family. He was still the one I called when I got sick and he’d bring me...
SEOUL (AP): Torrential rain pounded most of South Korea over the weekend, leaving six people dead and seven others missing, officials said Sunday. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said the heavy rainfall triggered landslides in dozens of...
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to take action on what he sees as a broad array of national security risks presented by software connected to the Chinese Communist Party, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday. Pompeo’s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities say one of the gravest threats to the November election is a well-timed ransomware attack that could paralyse voting operations. The threat isn’t just from foreign governments, but any fortune-...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — After 23 days in quarantine in Uganda — far longer than required — Jimmy Spire Ssentongo walked free in part because of a cartoon he drew. It showed a bound prisoner begging for liberation after multiple...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — The first astronauts to ride a SpaceX capsule into orbit headed toward a retro-style splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday afternoon to close out a two-month test flight. It will mark the first...
ST PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) — Early bands of heavy rain from Isaias lashed Florida’s east coast before dawn Sunday as authorities warily eyed the approaching storm, which threatened to snarl efforts to quell surging cases of the...
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa on Saturday surpassed 500,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, representing more than 50% of all reported coronavirus infections in Africa’s 54 countries. Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize announced 10,107 new cases...
Mexico now has the third most COVID-19 deaths in the world, behind Brazil and the United States, where a hurricane bearing down on the East Coast on Saturday is threatening to complicate efforts to contain the virus. Hurricane Isaias’...
NEW YORK (AP) — As the November 3 presidential vote nears, there are fresh signs that the nation’s electoral system is again under attack from foreign adversaries. Intelligence officials confirmed in recent days that foreign actors...
ST PETERSBURG, Florida — Florida health officials have reported 179 new deaths from the coronavirus, bringing the state’s total to more than 7,000. The latest numbers came Saturday as Hurricane Isaias threatened Florida’...
It will soon become almost twice as expensive to apply to become an American citizen. The Trump administration is significantly increasing fees for a number of immigration and work authorisation applications, including the fee to apply for...
BERLIN (AP) — Thousands protested Germany’s coronavirus restrictions Saturday in a Berlin demonstration that insisted “the end of the pandemic” has arrived — a declaration that comes just as authorities are voicing...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Isaias snapped trees and knocked out power as it blew through the Bahamas on Saturday and headed toward the Florida coast, where officials said they were closing beaches, parks and coronavirus testing...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian authorities and the Pan American Health Organization are investigating whether the country failed to count 27,253 deaths caused by the novel coronavirus, a figure that could more than double the country’s...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Families trying to squeeze in a summer vacation before school starts better do some homework on COVID-19 restrictions before loading up the minivan. The web of state and local quarantines is growing more tangled by the...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson put some of the country’s next steps out of lockdown on hold Friday with just a few hours’ notice, saying the number of new coronavirus cases was on the rise for the first time...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Isaias kept on a path early Friday toward the United States East Coast as it approached the Bahamas, parts of which are still recovering from the devastation of last year’s Hurricane Dorian....
LONDON (AP) — Scientists at Imperial College London say they are immunising hundreds of people with an experimental coronavirus vaccine in an early trial after seeing no worrying safety problems in a small number vaccinated so far. Dr Robin...
GEORGETOWN(CMC): Leader of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday welcomed a ruling by Guyana’s Court of Appeal in which it upheld the decision which stated that the national vote recount is valid. “We are...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The court of Appeal yesterday unanimously dismissed an appeal against a ruling in a lower court and gave the appellants one day to decide on their next move as the challenges to the disputed March 2 regional and general elections...
ATLANTA (AP): Former president Barack Obama used Republican John Lewis’ funeral on Thursday to issue a stark warning that the voting rights and equal opportunity the late civil rights icon championed are threatened heading into the 2020 election....
ATLANTA (AP): JOHN LEWIS was celebrated as an American hero during his funeral Thursday as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis’ example and fight injustice. Three former presidents joined in the eulogies at...
