HOUSTON (AP) — The young migrants and asylum seekers swim across the Rio Grande and clamber into the dense brush of Texas. Many are teens who left Central America on their own; others were sent along by parents from refugee camps in Mexico....
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is forecasting that the coronavirus pandemic will shrink the world economy by 3.2% this year, the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression in the 1930s. The UN.’s mid-year report released...
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom government warned Wednesday of a “significant” recession after official figures showed the economy shrank 2% in the first quarter of the year even though it included just one week of the...
BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic first broke out, are planning to test all 11 million residents in the next 10 days, Chinese media reported. No official announcement has been made, but...
BRUSSELS (AP) — New coronavirus clusters have appeared as nations struggle to balance reopening economies with preventing a second wave of infections and deaths, while in Europe, a debate erupted over the summer travel season. Authorities in...
CAIRO (AP): They are regarded as heroes, their fallen colleagues as martyrs. But for doctors and nurses still dealing with Iran’s growing number of coronavirus infections, such praise rings hollow. While crippling sanctions imposed by the US left...
WASHINGTON (AP): Dr Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, warned on Tuesday that “the consequences could be really serious” if cities and states reopen the US economy too quickly with the coronavirus still spreading. More...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Antigua and Barbuda says it will welcome its first international flight on June 4 since the island shut its borders as part of the efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 that has killed nearly 300,000 people and infected four...
WASHINGTON (AP) — On a day when COVID-19 cases soared, healthcare supplies were scarce and an anguished doctor warned he was being sent to war without bullets, a cargo plane landed at the Los Angeles International Airport, supposedly loaded...
Amber Dean had recovered from a mild bout of the coronavirus and her family of five had just ended their home quarantine when her oldest son, 9-year-old Bobby, fell ill. “At first it was nothing major, it seemed like a tummy bug, like he ate...
LONDON (AP) — Office jobs are never going to be the same. When workers around the world eventually return to their desks, they’ll find many changes due to the pandemic. For a start, fewer people will go back to their offices as the...
BEIJING (AP) — China suspended punitive tariffs on more US goods including radar equipment for aviation Tuesday amid pressure from President Donald Trump to buy more imports as part of a truce in their trade war. The Ministry of Finance said...
MOSCOW (AP) — A fire Tuesday morning at St. George Hospital in St. Petersburg killed five coronavirus patients who were on ventilators, Russian emergency officials said. The unnamed emergency officials spoke to the state Tass new agency. The...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up President Donald Trump’s bid to keep his tax, bank and financial records private, a major clash over presidential accountability that could affect the 2020 presidential campaign. The...
PARIS (AP): A top world health official warned on Monday that countries are essentially driving blind in reopening their economies without setting up strong contact tracing to beat back flare-ups of the coronavirus. The warning came as France and...
CARACAS (AP): VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION leader Juan Guaidó said Monday that two US-based political advisers have resigned in the fallout from a failed incursion into the Caribbean nation, led by a former Green Beret aimed at capturing President...
NEW YORK (CMC): A HIGH-RANKING United States Democratic congressman has strongly urged US Ambassador to Guyana Sarah Ann Lynch and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the US Department of State, Michael Kozak, not to interfere...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With deaths mounting at the nation’s nursing homes, the White House strongly recommended to governors Monday that all residents and staff at such facilities be tested for the coronavirus in the next two weeks. Why the...
NEW YORK (AP) — A top world health official Monday warned that countries are essentially driving blind in reopening their economies without setting up strong contact tracing to beat back flare-ups of the coronavirus. The warning came as...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia announced Monday it was tripling taxes on basic goods, raising them to 15%, and cutting spending on major projects by around $26 billion as it grapples with blows from the coronavirus pandemic...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus may be thousands of fatalities worse than the official tally kept by the city and state, according to an analysis released Monday by the US Centers for Disease Control...
ST PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) — Before the coronavirus outbreak, Saundra Andringa-Meuer was a healthy 61-year-old mother of six who never smoked or drank alcohol. Then she became seriously ill with the disease after travelling from her...
President Donald Trump’s reelection is facing growing headwinds less than six months before Election Day. Coronavirus has breached the White House walls. The US unemployment rate is at a 90-year high. And the death toll in the US has...
GEORGE TOWN (CMC): The borders of the Cayman Islands will remain officially closed, at least until September 1. This was disclosed by Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell, who said that no cruise ships will be landing here before then, despite cruise...
NEW YORK (CMC): A high-ranking United States Democratic Congressman has strongly urged US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah Ann Lynch, and assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the US Department of State, Michael Kozak, not to interfere...
