MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful earthquake centred near the southern Mexico resort of Huatulco killed at least one person, swayed buildings in Mexico City and sent thousands fleeing into the streets. Mexico President Andrés Manuel L...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s novel coronavirus cases mounted and added their youngest infections Monday when triplets tested positive for the virus on the day they were born. Monica Rangel, the health secretary of the northern state of...
LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in Britain will be able to go to the pub, visit a movie theatre, get a haircut or attend a religious service starting July 4, in a major loosening of coronavirus lockdown restrictions. But they will have to...
JOHANNESBURG — Researchers in South Africa say the first COVID-19 vaccine trial on the African continent is set to get underway on Wednesday. The University of the Witwatersrand says the vaccine developed by University of Oxford researchers...
SAN JUAN (AP): A vast cloud of Sahara dust is blanketing the Caribbean as it heads to the US with a size and concentration that experts say that haven’t been seen in half a century. Air quality across most of the region fell to record “hazardous”...
PARAMARIBO (CMC): The National Democratic Party (NDP) of President Desi Bouterse has congratulated the opposition parties on their victory in the May 25 general election and their decision to move towards the formation of a coalition government in...
DUBAI (AP): World leaders must not politicise the coronavirus pandemic but unite to fight it, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday, reminding all that the pandemic is still accelerating and producing record daily increases...
LONDON (AP): Prince Charles and Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to Britain’s Caribbean community Monday on Windrush Day, the 72nd anniversary of the arrival of a ship bringing hundreds of West Indian migrants to the United Kingdom (UK)....
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday that it was extending a ban on green cards issued outside the United States until the end of the year and adding many temporary work visas to the freeze, including those used heavily by...
DUBAI (AP) — Stargazers in Africa, Asia and parts of the Middle East looked to the skies Sunday to witness a partial solar eclipse. It was known as a “ring of fire” because the moon covered most, but not all, of the sun. It...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — World leaders must not politicise the coronavirus pandemic but unite to fight it, the head of the World Health Organization warned Monday, reminding all that the pandemic is still accelerating and producing...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the borders of the twin-island republic will remain closed as long as health requirements related to COVID-19 remain in place. Speaking during a media conference in Tobago on...
NEW YORK (AP): Black Roman Catholics are hearing their church’s leaders calling for racial justice once again after the killing of George Floyd, but this time they’re demanding not just words but action. As protests against racism and police...
Cruise lines have agreed to suspend sailing from United States ports until September 15, trade group Cruise Lines International Association announced Friday. The cruise industry shut down in March ahead of a no-sail order from the Centers for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Undeterred by this week’s Supreme Court ruling, President Donald Trump said Friday he will renew his effort to end legal protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children....
TORONTO (AP) — Justin Trudeau arrived on the world stage with rock star popularity in 2015. He declared “Canada is back” and made winning a seat on the powerful United Nations Security Council a top foreign policy priority....
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines has banned a man who was kicked off a plane for refusing to wear a face covering, among the first such incidents since airlines promised this week to step up enforcement of their mask rules. A spokesman for...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Homebound travellers desperate to venture out for the first time since the pandemic are confronting a vacation landscape this summer that may require coronavirus tests for the family and even quarantines. States from...
LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has apologised for the links some of its past governors had with slavery, as a global anti-racism movement sparked by the death of George Floyd forces many British institutions to confront uncomfortable...
BARBADOS IS working towards introducing a national digital ID, which could be rolled out over the next six months. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley shared this information on Wednesday as she spoke about the delivery economy, which has emerged...
GEORGETOWN: A PLANNED meeting of the seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to accept a report from the chief elections officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, failed to get off the ground on Thursday because of a lack of quorum, at least two...
In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that the last enslaved black people learned that they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families across the nation with a cookout, a...
WASHINGTON (AP): THE SUPREME Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, the second stunning election-season rebuke from the court in a week after its ruling that it’s illegal to...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada is introducing a contact tracing smartphone app that will notify Canadians of exposure to the new coronavirus. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday the app will be voluntary and that if someone tests positive,...
A genetic analysis of COVID-19 patients suggests that blood type might influence whether someone develops severe disease. Scientists who compared the genes of thousands of patients in Europe found that those who had Type A blood were more likely to...
