PARIS (AP): THE QUESTION of when to reopen schools looms large as European countries and United States (US) states draw up plans to restart their battered economies. Despite alarm among some teachers, parents and mayors, France detailed plans on...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The high-level Caribbean Community (CARICOM) observer team, tasked with scrutinising the national recount of all the votes cast in the disputed March 2 regional and general elections, will arrive in Guyana on Thursday, the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration is considering requiring travellers on certain incoming international flights to undergo temperature and virus checks to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. “...
PARIS (AP) — The question of when to reopen schools looms large as European countries and US states draw up plans to restart their battered economies. Despite alarm among some teachers, parents and mayors, France detailed plans Tuesday...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City schools will implement a new grading system for the remainder of the coronavirus-disrupted school year, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday. Elementary school students will be graded “meeting the...
For millions of people around the world dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, sleep brings no relief. The horrors of COVID-19, and the surreal and frightening ways it has upended daily life, are infecting dreams and exposing feelings of fear, loss...
As companies start planning their reopenings, business groups are pushing Congress to limit liability from potential lawsuits filed by workers and customers infected by the coronavirus. They appear to have the White House’s ear. President...
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom held a minute’s silence Tuesday for all front-line workers who have died from the coronavirus, as official figures showed a new weekly high in the total number of deaths in England and Wales. As...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Latin America’s largest nation is moving closer to becoming one of the world’s hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The number of cases in Brazil is growing amid political discord over the nation’s response, threatening to...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago government, on Saturday, maintained that its relationship with Barbados “is as good as it has ever been” as it downplayed a potential rift between the two CARICOM neighbours. Bridgetown on Friday issued...
SEOUL (AP): South Korea’s government has dismissed rumours that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in fragile condition, as speculation about his health intensifies amid the North’s silence on his whereabouts. There are concerns, particularly in...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s labour minister wants to enshrine into law the right to work from home if it is feasible to do so, even after the coronavirus pandemic subsides. Labour Minister Hubertus Heil told Sunday’s edition of the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is trying to put the coronavirus behind him and the nation, pivoting his focus to plans to reopen the country even as the virus continues to spread. As part of the effort, the Centers for...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday ordered the Shin Bet security agency to halt its use of phone-surveillance technology in the battle against the coronavirus, unless parliament begins legislating guidelines for the...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged his lockdown-weary nation to be patient Monday, arguing that easing social and economic restrictions too soon would create a second deadly spike of coronavirus infections. On his first...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is planning painful cuts in social benefits relied on by millions of government workers. Saudi Arabia will likely have to delay mega-projects. Egypt and Lebanon face a blow as their workers in the Gulf send back less of...
LONDON (AP): BRITISH PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is returning to work after recovering from a coronavirus infection that put him in intensive care, with his government facing growing criticism over the deaths and disruption the virus has caused....
LONDON (CMC): The British Government has collaborated with France and the Netherlands in addressing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affecting their overseas territories. “In order to help relieve local populations, they decided to bring a...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cautioned the country’s 1.3 billion people against any complacency in the fight against the coronavirus. On a Sunday radio talk show, Modi said that people will have to change their habits by sticking to...
TOKYO (AP): When the Japanese government declared an emergency to curb the spread of the coronavirus earlier this month and asked people to work from home, crowds rushed to electronics stores. So much for social distancing. Many Japanese lack...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a $484 billion bill Friday to aid employers and hospitals under stress from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 50,000 Americans and devastated broad...
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors charged a New York retailer Friday with hoarding tons of disposable masks, surgical gowns, and hand sanitiser in a Long Island warehouse and selling the items at huge markups. Amardeep 'Bobby' Singh...
SAVANNAH, Georgia (AP) — Even as the confirmed US death toll from coronavirus rose past 50,000, salons, spas and barbershops reopened Friday in Georgia and Oklahoma with a green light from their Republican governors, who eased...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US Food and Drug Administration is warning doctors against prescribing a malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus outside of hospitals or research settings. In an...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The parent company of Lysol disinfectant warned Friday that its products should not be used internally to treat COVID-19 after President Donald Trump wondered about the prospect during a White House briefing. Trump noted...
