DETROIT (AP) — Interstates and city streets are empty and cars are quarantined in their owners’ garages, so consumer advocates argue that it only makes sense for auto insurance rates to reflect that. In the states of Washington and New...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are dusting off some decades-old vaccines against other germs to see if they could provide a little stopgap protection against COVID-19 until a more precise shot arrives. It may sound odd: Vaccines are designed to...
LONDON — Scientists at the World Health Organization say they still do not have enough information to know if people are immune to subsequent COVID-19 infections once they have recovered from the disease. At a briefing on Monday, WHO...
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron announced the extension of France’s strict lockdown until May 11, on his third televised address to the nation on the virus crisis from the Elysee palace. France has been under lockdown since...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing nations on Sunday finalised an unprecedented production cut of nearly 10 million barrels, or a tenth of global supply, in hopes of boosting crashing prices amid the ...
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Athletes completing doping bans over the next year will be eligible to compete in the postponed Tokyo Olympics, an unintended effect of the coronavirus pandemic that has some crying foul. Turkish runner Gamze Bulut,...
DENVER (AP) — Colorado has made online sales of recreational marijuana legal during the coronavirus pandemic, fulfilling one of the pot industry’s biggest wishes and fuelling its argument for more concessions that could be made...
MADRID (AP) — New York’s coronavirus death toll topped 10,000 on Monday even as the absence of fresh hot spots in the United States or elsewhere in the world yielded a ray of optimism in global efforts against the disease, though a...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): GRENADIAN PRIME Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has described as irresponsible an invitation from his counterpart in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, for people from the Grenadine islands of Carriacou and Petite...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) leaders will meet on Wednesday to discuss the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on the region, Chairman Mia Mottley has announced. Mottley, who is also the prime minister of Barbados...
NASSAU (CMC): BAHAMIAN MEDICAL teams, in collaboration with the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA), have sourced and funded a supply of COVID-19 rapid test kits from a US-based company for use by Grand Bahama Health Services. The kits are already...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): A THIRD person has died from the COVID-19 outbreak in the French-speaking Caribbean Community country of Haiti. According to the Ministry of Public Health and Population, the 57-year-old man, who had various health conditions...
TORTOLA (CMC): Health Minister Carvin Malone says the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has sought the assistance of the United Kingdom to retrieve a shipment of medical supplies that was bound for the territory but has been seized by United States...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel and nations including Russia have agreed to boost oil prices by cutting as much as 10 million barrels a day in production, or a tenth of global supply. More countries, including the...
NEW YORK (AP) — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 on Friday as the epidemic in the United States cut a widening swath through not just New York City but the entire three-state metropolitan area of 20 million...
Apple and Google launched a major joint effort to leverage smartphone technology to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. New software the companies plan to add to phones would make it easier to use Bluetooth wireless technology to track down people for...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 60 United Nations agencies and international organisations urged governments on Thursday to take immediate steps to address the unfolding global recession and financial crisis wrought by the coronavirus...
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Chief Executive Akio Toyoda promised Friday that the Japanese auto industry would seek to protect jobs worldwide as it endures the coronavirus pandemic. Toyoda, speaking as head of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers...
HONG KONG (AP) — Singapore has suspended the use of Zoom for online education after hackers hijacked a lesson and showed obscene images to students. In what is known as “Zoombombing,” two hackers interrupted a geography lesson a...
TOKYO (AP) — As the coronavirus spreads in Japan, the chief executive of the Tokyo Games said Friday he can’t guarantee the postponed Olympics will be staged next year — even with the long delay. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Christians are commemorating Jesus’ crucifixion without the solemn church services or emotional processions of past years, marking Good Friday in a world locked down by the coronavirus pandemic. The chanting of a small...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thousands of people surged for food aid in a brief stampede Friday in Kenya’s capital, leading police to fire tear gas and injure several people, witnesses said. Desperate for help as coronavirus-related...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic will push the global economy into the deepest recession since the Great Depression, with the world’s poorest countries suffering the most, the head of the International Monetary Fund said...
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved out of intensive care, his office says. In a statement Thursday, a spokesman at 10 Downing Street said Johnson “has been moved this evening from intensive care back to the...
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday Canadians will need to stay at home and practice physical distancing for months as the first wave of COVID-19 cases in the country won’t end until the summer and Canada...
