What is herd immunity and could it work with COVID-19? Herd immunity is when a virus can no longer spread easily because enough people are immune to it. That lowers the chances of the virus jumping from person to person and reaching those who haven...
HOUSTON (AP) — George Floyd’s body arrived at a Houston church Tuesday for a private funeral, to be followed by his burial, capping six days of mourning for the black man whose death has led to a global reckoning over police brutality...
LONDON (AP) — Britain began imposing a 14-day quarantine Monday on travellers coming into the country, months after other European countries imposed similar measures to control the spread of the coronavirus. The quarantine was roundly...
GEORGETOWN (AP) : A major dispute erupted Monday in Guyana and threatened to further destabilise the South American country after the governing party rejected a recount of votes cast during the March 2 general elections. The ruling multiparty...
JERUSALEM (AP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has assured Jewish settlers that he is going ahead with plans to begin annexing parts of the occupied West Bank next month, a settler representative said on Monday. Netanyahu told a group of settler...
WELLINGTON (AP): New Zealand appears to have completely eradicated the coronavirus ? at least for now ? after health officials said on Monday that the last known infected person had recovered. The announcement was greeted with joy around the...
BRISTOL (AP): In an English port city that once launched slave ships, an empty plinth has become the centre of a debate about racism, history, and memory. For over a century, the pedestal in Bristol held the statue of Edward Colston, a 17th-...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has sent congratulations to incumbent Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris on the resounding victory in the general elections held on Friday. ?The overwhelming nature of the triumph at the polls...
The family of a black Jamaican man living in New York fatally shot during an encounter with a white New Jersey state trooper is demanding answers after receiving little information about his death. The New York Post reports that Maurice ...
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday tossed out three lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from predominantly Muslim countries, a victory for the Trump administration in its...
Tropical Storm Cristobal could soon renew its strength by uniting with another storm system coming from the west to form one giant cyclone, forecasters say. After drenching much of the South, forecasters now expect the remnants of Cristobal to...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge on Monday kept bail at $1 million for a Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder in George Floyd’s death. Derek Chauvin, 44, said almost nothing during an 11-minute hearing in which he...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States economy entered a recession in February, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the longest expansion on record. The economists said employment peaked in February and fell sharply afterward, marking...
LONDON (AP) — Britain began imposing a 14-day quarantine Monday on travellers coming into the country — a sweeping measure meant to halt the further spread of COVID-19 that has been roundly criticised by the aviation and tourism...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand appears to have completely eradicated the coronavirus — at least for now — after health officials said Monday the last known infected person had recovered. The announcement was greeted...
NAMANGA (AP): They haul food, fuel and other essential supplies along sometimes dangerous roads during tough economic times. But Africa’s long-distance truckers say they are increasingly being accused of carrying something else: the coronavirus....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics call an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease in Latin America’s...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rain pounded the US Gulf Coast on Sunday ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Cristobal, which has already spawned a tornado in Florida. Roads flooded in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, and thousands were without...
BEIJING (AP) — Senior Chinese officials released a lengthy report Sunday on the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, defending their government’s actions and saying that China had provided information in a timely and...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities on Sunday, a day after the government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of...
BERLIN (AP) — German police have detained 11 people suspected of involvement in the sexual abuse of at least three children, officials said Saturday. Prosecutors said the group used sophisticated technology to encrypt their communication, and...
BEIJING (AP) — China is advising its citizens not to visit Australia, citing racial discrimination and violence against Asians, in what appears to be Beijing’s latest attempt to punish the country for advocating an investigation into...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe could have its free travel zone up and running again by the end of this month, but travellers from further afield will not be allowed in before July, a European Union commissioner said Friday after talks among the bloc...
MIAMI (AP) — A re-energised Tropical Storm Cristobal advanced toward the US Gulf Coast early Saturday, bringing with it the heavy rains that already caused flooding and mudslides in Mexico and Central America. After weakening to a tropical...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Negotiators for the city of Minneapolis agreed with the state Friday to ban the use of chokeholds by police and to require officers to report and intervene anytime they see an unauthorised use of force by another officer....
