JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Muslims worldwide began Ramadan on Friday with dawn-to-dusk fasting, but many will have to forgo the communal prayers and family gatherings that make the holy month special, as authorities maintain lockdowns aimed at...
CAPE TOWN (AP): Africa registered a 43% jump in reported COVID-19 cases in the last week, highlighting a warning from the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the continent of 1.3 billion could become the next epicentre of the global outbreak....
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): A plane carrying 129 migrants who were deported from the US landed Thursday in Haiti amid concerns that the second such flight this month could strain the impoverished country’s limited resources as it fights the COVID-19...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Barbados recorded its sixth death to COVID-19 on the same day that it confirmed its first new case in six days. The Ministry of Health and Wellness reported Wednesday that the deceased is a 70-year-old CARICOM national living in...
KENSCOFF, Haiti (AP) — For a limestone mantel from the Waldorf Astoria, the church that owns the Olde Good Things antique stores asks for $8,500. But for the death of each child in a fire at a home it ran in Haiti, parents said the same...
Testing of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine began in healthy volunteers in Britain Thursday, the latest in a cluster of early-stage studies in search of protection against the coronavirus. University of Oxford researchers gave injections to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is making it harder for noncitizens who are authorised to live permanently in the United States to argue they should be allowed to stay in the country if they’ve committed crimes. The decision...
NEW YORK (AP) — Unemployment in the United States is swelling to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus. More than 4.4 million laid-off Americans...
NEW YORK (AP) — After two months and more than 10,000 deaths that have made the nation’s nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most of them still don’t have access to enough tests to...
LONDON (AP) — Europe’s economies are heading for unprecedented recessions as a result of the lockdown measures put in place by governments to get a grip on the coronavirus pandemic, closely watched surveys indicated Thursday. The scale...
BEIJING (AP) — China, the world’s biggest energy consumer, is building up stockpiles of crude oil as global prices plunge due to the coronavirus outbreak. Imports rose 4.5% in March over a year earlier even as the world’s second-...
The Trump administration is barring most international students and all students who entered the United States illegally from receiving emergency college grants approved by Congress as part of nearly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue...
CHICAGO (AP) — A once-bustling bar and grill tucked below a Michigan Avenue overpass famously inspired a “Saturday Night Live” skit starring John Belushi and Bill Murray. But the money the Billy Goat Tavern is losing during the...
GENEVA (AP): The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief said Wednesday he hopes the United States will reconsider its freeze in funding for his agency and vowed to keep working on “saving lives” despite calls from some US lawmakers for his...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): The government of Trinidad and Tobago will be sending care packages to nationals of the twin-island republic who are studying at institutions in the region. This was disclosed by National Security Minister Stuart...
WASHINGTON (AP): Despite pockets of attention-grabbing protests, a new survey finds Americans remain overwhelmingly in favour of stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. A majority say it won’t be safe to lift...
The biggest and most profitable US airline just posted its first quarterly loss in more than five years. Now things are going to get really bad. Delta Air Lines Inc. reported Wednesday that it lost $534 million in the first three months of the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Two pet cats in New York state have tested positive for the coronavirus, marking the first confirmed cases in companion animals in the United States, federal officials said Wednesday. The cats, which had mild...
DETROIT (AP) — Those lightly travelled freeways and streets could be putting a few dollar bills into your wallet. With most states under stay-at-home orders from governors, traffic is down almost everywhere, and that means lower crash rates...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has acknowledged that drug cartels have been handing out aid packages during the coronavirus pandemic, and called for them to stop. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said such...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s extended lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak has shut down schools, workplaces, industries, transport, and forced people to stay home. It also led to an unexpected bonus in the country with six out of 10...
With this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee cancelled because the coronavirus pandemic, an online spelling bee launched by two Texas teenagers is offering a consolation prize of sorts, with competitors nationwide including many...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday slammed a lawsuit brought against it by the US state of Missouri over the coronavirus pandemic as “very absurd.” Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the legal action has “no...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With North Korea saying nothing so far about outside media reports that leader Kim Jong Un may be unwell, there’s renewed worry about who’s next in line to run a nuclear-armed country that’s been...
The Trinidad and Tobago government yesterday urged nationals not to panic as the oil and gas-rich country prepared to count the possible loss of billions of dollars in revenue as a result of the historic drop in oil prices on the global market. “...
