LA GRANDE-MOTTE (AP): GRATEFUL FRENCH families flocked to the beach at La Grande-Motte on the Mediterranean shore on Sunday, swimming and sunbathing in areas carefully marked to keep them a safe distance from others. Cordons of ropes and wooden...
KARACHI (AP): When the plane jolted violently, Mohammad Zubair thought it was turbulence. Then the pilot came on the intercom to warn that the landing could be “troublesome”. Moments later, the Pakistan International Airlines flight crashed into a...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Africa’s coronavirus cases have surpassed 100,000, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, as the youthful continent with many fragile health systems has not seen the high numbers devastating other...
ATLANTA (AP): Joe Biden declared he “should not have been so cavalier” on Friday after he told a prominent black radio host that African Americans who back President Donald Trump “ain’t black.” The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee...
CARACAS (AP): Venezuela’s high court ordered the immediate seizure of all DirecTV property on Friday, days after the US company abandoned its services in the South American nation, citing US sanctions. The Supreme Court ruling told the nation’s...
BASSETERRE (CMC): St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minster Dr Timothy Harris has said that the borders of the twin-island federation will remain closed, effectively dashing the hopes of overseas nationals who would have wanted to travel to cast their...
HAVANA (AP): Cuba’s top diplomat in charge of relations with the United States has said that relations have sunk to a new low, and potentially could sink even lower with the appointment of Florida Senator Marco Rubio as acting chairman of the...
LIBERTY, Missouri (AP) — A woman who kept her husband’s body in a freezer in her bedroom at their southwest Missouri home is suing for the return of his remains. Barbara Watters, 67, of Joplin, was charged in November with...
LONDON (AP) — British researchers testing an experimental vaccine against the new coronavirus are moving into advanced studies and aim to immunise more than 10,000 people to determine if the shot works. Friday’s announcement came as...
LONDON (AP) — People arriving in the United Kingdom will have to quarantine themselves for 14 days and could be fined 1,000 pounds if they fail to comply under a plan being announced Friday by the British government. Home Secretary Priti...
TAMPA, Florida (AP) — A Florida man accused of coughing on and spitting at police officers while claiming to be infected with the coronavirus was indicted on a federal terrorism charge. A federal grand jury in Tampa returned an indictment...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A jetliner carrying 98 people crashed Friday in a crowded neighbourhood near the airport in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi after an apparent engine failure during landing. Officials said there were at least two...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Officials from the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services are currently undertaking house visits to applicants who have requested social assistance grants, to help them through the COVID-19 crisis. According to a...
GEORGE TOWN: GOVERNOR AUGUSTUS Jaspers has extended, by 14 days, the current 11-hour night-time curfew that was scheduled to end on Saturday. Speaking with reporters on Thursday, the governor also said the Cabinet decided to increase the time...
NEW DELHI (AP): Wide swathes of coastal India and Bangladesh were flooded and millions were without power Thursday as Cyclone Amphan, the most powerful storm to hit the region in more than a decade, killed over 80 people and cut a path of...
WASHINGTON (AP): THE NUMBER of Americans applying for unemployment benefits in the two months since the coronavirus took hold in the US has swelled to nearly 39 million, the government reported Thursday, even as states from coast to coast...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A woman has tearfully embraced her dying sister in Australia after weeks of bureaucracy wrangling over pandemic travel restrictions. Australia had rejected Christine Archer’s request for permission to fly from...
PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) — A former Florida high school teacher was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing students after the judge ignored his request to be castrated instead. Mark Lua, 32, told Circuit Judge Thomas Dannheisser...
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 2.4 million people applied for US unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business shutdowns two months ago and sent the economy into a...
PESHAWAR (AP): A Pakistani man accused of killing his two teenage cousins after a video of the sisters surfaced on social media showing them kissing a man was arrested Wednesday, a local police official said. The killings took place last week in...
CARACAS (AP): Iran’s ambassador to Venezuela said Wednesday that the two nations, both under increasing US pressure, are exercising their right to trade freely in a deal that includes shipping the South American nation five tankers of gasolene to...
PARAMARIBO (CMC): A four-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Election Observer Mission has arrived here ahead of next Monday’s general election in which voters will elect a new government in the Dutch-speaking country. Supervisor of elections of...
MADRID — The regional authority of Madrid is appealing to Spain’s Supreme Court over the Spanish government’s refusal to ease its lockdown. The Madrid regional government said in a statement Wednesday it believes that technical...
Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. The companies said 22 countries and several US states are already planning to build...
FAIRLESS HILLS, Pennsylvania (AP) — Johnson & Johnson is ending sales of its iconic talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder in the United States and Canada, where demand has dwindled amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it has caused...
