WhatsApp on Tuesday placed new limits on message forwarding as part of an effort to curb the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. The new policy limits users to forwarding certain messages to one "chat" at a time,...
GENEVA — The United Nation's labour organisation estimates the equivalent of 195 million full-time jobs could be lost in the second quarter alone from the COVID-19 outbreak, with businesses and plants shuttered worldwide. The projection...
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a monthlong state of emergency for Tokyo and six other prefectures on Tuesday to ramp up defences against the spread of the coronavirus as the number of infections surges. But the move...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday a complete lockdown over the upcoming Passover holiday to control the country’s coronavirus outbreak, but offered citizens some hope by saying he expects to...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in stable condition Tuesday in a hospital intensive care unit with the coronavirus, and while he is not on a ventilator, he is receiving oxygen, his spokesman said. Foreign Secretary...
LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to the intensive care unit of a London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened. Johnson’s office says he is conscious and does not require ventilation at the moment. Johnson...
GEORGE TOWN (CMC): The police have launched an investigation into what has been described as a “fake news” attack on the wife of Governor Martyn Roper. Roper, who was speaking in a press briefing on Sunday, dismissed reports that his wife, Lissie...
BAGHDAD (AP) At least three rockets hit near the site of an American oil field service company in southern Iraq early on Monday, Iraq’s military said, the first such attack in recent months to target US energy interests in Iraq. The rockets...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): South Africa, one of the world’s most unequal countries with a large population vulnerable to the new coronavirus, may have an advantage in the outbreak, honed during years battling HIV and tuberculosis: the know-how and...
MADRID (AP): A week ago, emergency rooms and intensive care wards in Spain and Italy were overflowing with woozy, coughing coronavirus patients and literally buzzing with breathing machines. So many died that Barcelona crematories have a waiting...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): China’s embassy in Brazil responded with outrage on Monday to a social media post by Brazil’s Education Minister Abraham Weintraub that appeared to mock Chinese accents while insinuating the Asian giant stood to benefit from...
Sugarcane farmers in northern Belize, hard hit by one of the most devastating droughts in recent memory, are set to get relief through a project funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). Last week, the bank’s board of directors approved a...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday said it would urge the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to await a request from Guyana on any new development regarding the disputed March 2 regional and general elections after a the...
CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) — A West Virginia judge in the county with the state’s highest coronavirus caseload has approved strapping ankle monitors to people who test positive but refuse to quarantine, officials said Monday....
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to the intensive care unit of a London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened. Johnson’s office says he is conscious and does not require ventilation at the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya increased its restrictions to combat the coronavirus on Monday, announcing travel bans into and out of the capital city, Nairobi, the port of Mombasa and two counties. Forty-three of Africa’s 54 countries...
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he will declare a state of emergency for Tokyo and six other prefectures as early as Tuesday to bolster measures to fight the coronavirus, but that there will be no hard lockdowns. Abe...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Regional carrier LIAT has suspended all passenger flights for two weeks in the wake of COVID-19. In a statement issued Friday, the regional airline announced that during the stipulated period only charters and cargo flights will be...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Just over two weeks since Barbados confirmed its first COVID-19 case, government has revealed that one person has died as a result of the virus. Minister of Health Colonel Jeffery Bostic made the disclosure during a national...
New Delhi: Millions of Indians across the country switched off lights at their homes and lit candles, diyas (earthen lamps) or turned on mobile phone torches at 9 p.m. on Sunday, responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to show nation’s...
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday Mass in the shelter of St Peter’s Basilica without the public because of the coronavirus pandemic, while parish priests elsewhere in Rome took to church rooftops and bell towers to lead...
LONDON (AP): Americans braced for what the nation’s top doctor warned Sunday would be “the hardest and saddest week” of their lives while Britain assumed the unwelcome mantle of deadliest coronavirus hotspot in Europe after a record 24-hour jump in...
TORONTO (AP): The premier of the Canadian province that sheltered thousands of stranded American airline passengers after the 9/11 attacks said Sunday he’s infuriated that US President Donald Trump banned the export of N95 protective masks to...
HAMILTON (CMC): Health officials on Saturday announced two more confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing Bermuda’s total to 37, as the island began a 14-day lockdown designed to stem the coronavirus that has already claimed the lives of more than 66,...
ST PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) — Another cruise ship with coronavirus victims on board, including two fatalities, docked in Florida on Saturday. Princess Cruises spokeswoman Negin Kamali said in an email that the Coral Princess ship was...
