ROME (AP) — Migrant farm workers must be treated with dignity, Pope Francis said Wednesday, issuing his appeal as Italy weighs whether to legalise the workers amid a shortage of seasonal farmhands due to the coronavirus crisis. Farm lobby...
CARACAS (AP): PRESIDENT DONALD Trump said Tuesday that the United States (US) had nothing to do with an alleged incursion into Venezuela that landed two US citizens behind bars in the crisis-stricken South American nation. Trump said he had just...
PARIS (AP): With a face mask 100 per cent made in France, President Emmanuel Macron showed the famously fashionable French people Tuesday that civic responsibility and style are not mutually exclusive. Macron used a visit to a primary school to...
FLINT, Michigan (AP): A Michigan woman was formally charged Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a store security guard who refused to allow her daughter inside because she wasn’t wearing a face mask to protect against transmission of the coronavirus....
NASSAU (CMC): PRIME MINISTER Dr Hubert Minnis on Monday night announced he had accepted the resignation of his embattled health minister, Dr Duane Sands, effective yesterday and promised to make a further statement on the issue later. “I have...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): PRIME MINISTER Dr Ralph Gonsalves says he has not given “any real thought to the altered targets for elections,” amid concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic may have altered his plans for announcing a date for the general elections...
MANILA (AP): A PHILIPPINE government agency on Tuesday ordered the country’s leading broadcast network, which the president has targeted for its critical news coverage, to halt operations after its congressional franchise expired, sparking shock...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with an alleged incursion into Venezuela that landed two US citizens behind bars in the crisis-stricken South American nation. Trump...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine government agency on Tuesday ordered the country’s leading broadcast network, which the president has targeted for its critical news coverage, to halt operations after its congressional franchise...
NEW YORK (AP) — Treats made and delivered by neighbours. Fresh garden plantings dug from a safe six feet away. Trips around the world set up room-to-room at home. Mother’s Day this year is a mix of love and extra imagination as...
LONDON (AP) — Britain on Tuesday became the first country in Europe to confirm more than 30,000 coronavirus deaths, and infections rose sharply again in Russia, even as other nations made great strides in containing the scourge. China marked...
NEW YORK — Fifteen children, many of whom had the coronavirus, have recently been hospitalised in New York City with a mysterious syndrome that doctors do not yet fully understand but that has also been reported in several European countries...
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed plans to gradually reopen schools next week amid concerns from mayors, teachers, and parents about the timing. Macron, wearing a mask, visited a primary school in a suburb west of Paris on...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The new coronavirus pandemic has brought back something unseen in Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution: a drive-in movie theatre. Once decried by revolutionaries for allowing too much privacy for unmarried young couples...
CARACAS (AP): Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Monday denied having anything to do with an ex-Green Beret who claimed responsibility for a deadly beach invasion aimed at arresting socialist leader Nicolás Maduro. The government,...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): MIGRANTS RETURNING from the United States (US) were once considered heroes in Guatemala, where the money they send back to their hometowns is a mainstay of the economy. But since the coronavirus pandemic hit, migrants in town...
They wanted the campus experience, but their colleges sent them home to learn online during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, students at more than 25 US universities are filing lawsuits against their schools demanding partial refunds on tuition and...
BRUSSELS (AP) — World leaders, organisations and banks on Monday pledged 7.4 billion euros ($8 billion) for research to find a vaccine against the new coronavirus, but warned that it is just the start of an effort that must be sustained over...
DETROIT (AP) — A woman, her adult son and husband have been charged in the fatal shooting of a security guard who refused to let her daughter enter a Family Dollar in Michigan because she wasn’t wearing a face mask to protect against...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Monday denied having anything to do with an ex-Green Beret who claimed responsibility for a deadly beach invasion aimed at arresting socialist leader Nicolás...
MIAMI (AP) — Carnival Cruise Line announced Monday it will start cruising again, from Florida and Texas, beginning in August. These Caribbean trips are the first announced by one of the major cruise lines since the coronavirus...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pushing to reopen the economy, President Donald Trump insists that states can gradually lift lockdowns and still protect people from the coronavirus pandemic, even as he’s also suggesting US deaths could reach 100...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Migrants returning from the United States were once considered heroes in Guatemala, where the money they send back to their hometowns is a mainstay of the economy. But since the coronavirus pandemic hit, migrants in town...
NEW YORK (AP) — Three hours before mealtime, a line begins to form on the sidewalk outside St Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, facing Park Avenue in one of New York City’s poshest neighbourhoods. By 5:30 p.m., when plastic...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of people are rolling up their sleeves in countries across the world to be injected with experimental vaccines that might stop COVID-19, spurring hope — maybe unrealistic — that an end to the pandemic...
