MOSCOW (AP) — Oil-producing countries including those of the OPEC cartel and Russia are trying to strike a global deal to pump less crude in a bid to limit a crash in prices that, while welcome for consumers, has been straining government...
LONDON — The British government says the U.K. has recorded 881 new deaths of people with the coronavirus. The number is lower than in the previous 24 hours, in which 938 deaths were recorded. As of Thursday, 7,978 patients have died in...
ROME (AP) — To recover from the coronavirus, as she did, Ada Zanusso recommends courage and faith, the same qualities that have served her well in her nearly 104 years. Italy, along with neighbouring France, has Europe’s largest...
NEW YORK (AP) — A staggering 16.8 million Americans have been thrown onto the unemployment rolls in just three weeks, underscoring the terrifying speed with which the coronavirus outbreak has brought world economies to a near standstill....
GEORGETOWN (CMC): GUYANA’S CHIEF Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, has placed on the table a timeline of 156 days for a recount of all ballots cast in the March 2 elections. However, Sase Gunraj, who is the opposition-nominated commission on the...
NASSAU (CMC): A NEW, rapidly spreading outbreak of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has infiltrated nearly 40 miles of Grand Bahama’s southern coastline, killing a wide range of corals, including some that are already endangered. “Corals...
WASHINGTON (AP): Senator Bernie Sanders ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, making Joe Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge President Donald Trump in a general election campaign that will be waged against the backdrop of the...
LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care with the coronavirus but is improving and sitting up in bed, a senior government minister said Wednesday, as the UK recorded its biggest spike in COVID-19 deaths to date....
NEW YORK (AP): NEW YORK City’s death toll from the coronavirus has been disproportionately high in black and Hispanic communities, and the city is starting an outreach campaign for those residents, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. “We’re seeing...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department charged two people with federal terrorism offences on Wednesday for allegedly claiming they were intentionally trying to spread the coronavirus. The charges, in cases in Texas and Florida, come about...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico announced Wednesday that it will broaden its classification of COVID-19 deaths to include suspected cases that were never confirmed —addressing a problem of under-counting also seen around the...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the European Union’s top science organization has quit at the height of the coronavirus crisis, a move he attributed to disappointment with the EU’s response to the pandemic and an EU spokesman said...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization was on the defensive Wednesday after US President Donald Trump blasted the UN health body over its recommendations on the coronavirus and threatened to strip hundreds of millions of...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “responding to treatment” but remains in intensive care with the new coronavirus, his spokesman said Wednesday. The UK government, meanwhile, sought to keep a grip on its...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senator Bernie Sanders, who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party’s establishment lined swiftly up behind rival Joe Biden, ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, an acknowledgement...
LONDON (AP) — After 76 days in lockdown, the Chinese city at the heart of the global pandemic reopened Wednesday, and tens of thousands immediately hopped on trains and planes to leave. Elsewhere, the economic, political and psychological...
BELMOPAN (CMC): A 54-year-old man who tested positive for COVID-19 last Friday in Belize has died. Prime Minister Dean Barrow, in a message late Monday, in extending sympathies to the family of Hubert Pipersburgh, said that he died on Sunday in an...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says his administration plans to bring home Vincentian sailors who have been stranded on cruise and other ships due to the coronavirus pandemic. “There are Vincentians who are still out there who...
HAMILTON (CMC): Premier David Burt says Bermuda will be “significantly ramping up” its testing after reporting the island’s first two deaths from the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe. Speaking during a news conference on Monday, the premier...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has sought to assure the country that there is no shortage of food and has called on Grenadians to stop behaving as “if every shopping day is the last day for food to be available”. “From the...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Barbados yesterday recorded its third death from COVID-19, with the passing of a 95-year-old man. This was revealed by Dr Corey Forde, head of infectious diseases at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This follows the passing of an 81-...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he will “put a hold” on US funding to the World Health Organization, saying “they missed the call” on the coronavirus pandemic. Trump made the announcement at a White House...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York on Tuesday denied R&B singer R. Kelly’s request for release from jail in Chicago because he was concerned he could contract the coronavirus while behind bars. “The defendant is...
Barbados has recorded a third death from COVID-19. Head of Infectious Diseases at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Dr Corey Forde, said the 95-year-old male died at 3:00 a.m. today, as the total number of cases increased to 63. He is the third man to...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed the number of those killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11, health officials said Tuesday. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in intensive care with...
