BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is facing a “serious funding gap” to battle the new outbreak of Ebola in remote corners of northern Congo amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. The $...
SAO PAULO — Brazilian health authorities are starting a three-month test of a coronavirus vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac. Dimas Covas, president of the Butantan Institute coordinating the study, says if the vaccine...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Major airlines are urging the United States and the European Union to quickly restore transatlantic air travel by deploying a joint COVID-19 testing programme. The CEOs of United, American Airlines, IAG and...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — Florida’s skyrocketing coronavirus death rate is now higher than any other state, edging out Texas, which has about 25% more people. Florida recorded another 134 deaths Tuesday, bringing its daily...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Tuesday accused two Chinese hackers of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars of trade secrets from companies across the world and more recently targeting firms developing a vaccine for the...
BRUSSELS (AP) — After four days and nights of wrangling, exhausted European Union leaders finally clinched a deal on an unprecedented 1.8 trillion-euro (US$2.1 trillion) budget and coronavirus recovery fund early Tuesday, after one of their...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba opened shops Monday that accept only foreign currencies and eliminated a special tax on the US dollar, deepening a process of collecting stronger currencies to face the country’s economic crisis. By morning, long...
ST PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) — Florida reported another 10,000 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the 12th day since the Fourth of July the number has topped that threshold. The state Department of Health reported 10,347 new cases and 90...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of homicides in Mexico has grown during the new coronavirus pandemic, including a 9.2% spike in killings of women, according to government figures released Monday. The data for the first half of 2020...
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of workers rallied Monday outside the Trump International Hotel in Manhattan and in cities across the United States to protest systemic racism and economic inequality, joining a nationwide demonstration demanding...
More than 105,000 people have been arrested in Zimbabwe since March for violating regulations aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus, police say. Around 1,000 were arrested in the last two days for "unnecessary movement" or for...
Sophia Garabedian had been dealing with a persistent fever and painful headache when her parents found her unresponsive in her bed one morning last fall. Doctors ultimately diagnosed the then-5-year-old Sudbury, Massachusetts, resident with eastern...
LONDON (AP) — Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot. British researchers first began testing...
NEW DELHI: A record 24-hour surge of 38,902 new cases has taken India’s coronavirus total to 1,077,618. The Health Ministry on Sunday also reported 543 additional deaths for a total of 26,816. The number of people who have recovered continues to...
HAMILTON : Labour Minister Jason Hayward says Bermuda plans to follow Barbados and introduce a one-year residential certificate to enable non-residents to work remotely on the island. It is expected to come into effect in the first week of August...
Hong Kong is tightening anti-coronavirus measures following a recent surge in cases. The wearing of masks will be mandatory in all public places and non-essential civil servants will again work from home. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam introduced the...
Pope Francis is assuring his closeness to all those grappling with COVID-19 and its “economic and social consequences”. Speaking on Sunday from his studio window overlooking St Peter’s Square, Francis said that “the pandemic is showing no sign of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Reynold Georges, the legal adviser to President Jovenel Moise, has resigned, claiming that “the policy currently followed by your administration is not in line with my ideals and my convictions”. Georges, in a July 17 letter...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government says it has turned down a request from the United States to relay the Voice of America (VOA) programmes to Venezuela utilising a local medium-wave tower. President David Granger said his administration...
TEHRAN (AP): Iran has sent the black box from the Ukrainian passenger jet that its armed forces mistakenly shot down in January to France for reading, an Iranian semi-official news agency said Saturday. Iran accidentally shot down the Boeing 737-...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico’s top security official said Saturday that authorities are investigating a video showing dozens of combat-uniformed gunmen posing with military-grade weapons and armoured pickup trucks, some painted with the initials of the...
WOODSTOCK, Illinois (AP) — A northern Illinois woman who subjected her young son to years of physical and emotional abuse culminating in his beating death last year was on Friday sentenced to 35 years in prison. JoAnn Cunningham pleaded...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Security officials in Bangladesh have arrested the owner of two hospitals that issued thousands of fake coronavirus test reports as he attempted to flee the country to India, officials said Thursday. Mohammed Shahed,...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A ruthless Iowa meth kingpin who killed five people, including two young girls, in 1993 to thwart his prosecution for drug trafficking is set to become the third federal inmate to be executed this week. Dustin Honken,...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India crossed 1 million coronavirus cases on Friday, third only to the United States and Brazil, prompting concerns about its readiness to confront an inevitable surge that could overwhelm hospitals and test the country...
