Millions of Americans took to the skies and the highways for Thanksgiving at the risk of pouring gasoline on the coronavirus fire, disregarding increasingly dire warnings that they stay home and limit their holiday gatherings to members of their...
MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of people in Russia’s Far East region of Primorye remained without heating or electricity on Wednesday, as local authorities and emergency services wrestled with the consequences of an unprecedented ice storm...
LONDON (AP) — The British government faced fury Wednesday over its decision to ditch its long-standing target for overseas aid in the wake of what it described as the deepest recession in over three centuries. In a statement to lawmakers,...
BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union official said Wednesday that the first citizens in the 27 nation bloc could be vaccinated against the coronavirus by Christmas, but she warned that member countries must urgently prepare their logistical...
PARIS (AP) — With domestic violence on the rise amid the coronavirus pandemic, activists are holding protests Wednesday from France to Turkey and world dignitaries are trying to find ways to protect millions of women killed or abused every...
LONDON (AP) — With major COVID-19 vaccines showing high levels of protection, British officials are cautiously — and they stress cautiously — optimistic that life may start returning to normal by early April. Even before...
Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 12:14 AM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP): Deep in the Mars-like landscape of Utah’s red-rock desert lies a mystery: A gleaming metal monolith in one of the most remote parts of the state. The smooth, tall structure was found during a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep...
Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 12:13 AM
SAN PEDRO SULA (AP): At a shelter in this northern Honduran city, Lilian Gabriela Santos Sarmiento says back-to-back hurricanes that hit with devastating fury this month have overturned her life. Her home in what was once a pretty neighbourhood in...
Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 12:13 AM
Waiters and bartenders are being thrown out of work – again – as governors and local officials shut down indoor dining and drinking establishments to combat the nationwide surge in coronavirus infections that is overwhelming hospitals and dashing...
Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 12:12 AM
Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty yesterday to three criminal charges, formally taking responsibility for its part in an opioid epidemic that has contributed to hundreds of thousands of deaths, but also angering critics who want to see individuals held...
TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday Canada will have to wait for a vaccine because the very first ones that roll off assembly lines are likely to be given to citizens of the country they are made in. Trudeau said the...
LONDON (AP) — British authorities gave the green light Tuesday to holiday reunions, relaxing restrictions on social mixing over Christmas and offering arriving international travellers a way to cut short quarantine if they test negative for...
In Pennsylvania, if you’re having friends over to socialise, you’re supposed to wear a mask — and so are your friends. That’s the rule, but Barb Chestnut has no intention of following it. “No one is going to tell me...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — International air travel could come booming back next year but with a new rule: Travellers to certain countries must be vaccinated against the coronavirus before they can fly. Encouraging news about vaccine...
UMM RAKOUBA, Sudan (AP) — The baby was born on the run from war. Her first bath was in a puddle. Now she cries all night in a country that is not her own. Wrapped in borrowed clothing, the child is one of the newest and most fragile refugees...
ROME (AP): Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the US police killing of George Floyd, and is blasting COVID-19 sceptics and media organisations that spread their conspiracies, in a new book penned during the Vatican...
BRUSSELS (AP): European Union chief Charles Michel is inviting Joe Biden once he is US president to come visit and patch up trans-Atlantic relations, which have suffered over the past four years under President Donald Trump. “Now is the time to...
BOGOTA (AP): A mudslide destroyed a dance club and killed seven people in northern Colombia early Monday as the country reels from heavy rains. The disaster management agency for Antioquia state said that the landslide occurred around 1 a.m. while...
WENCHANG (AP): China launched an ambitious mission on Tuesday to bring back rocks and debris from the moon’s surface for the first time in more than 40 years – an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moon and of the solar system...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Guatemala’s Congress backed down on Monday on a federal budget that drew angry protests, including the burning of part of the Congress building over the weekend. The new budget would have slashed social spending and was approved...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The General Services Administration (GSA) has ascertained that Monday that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the November 3 election, clearing the way for the start of the transition from...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): South Korea is imposing stricter social-distancing rules in the greater Seoul area to fight a coronavirus resurgence, as the country registered more than 300 new cases for the fifth straight day. Health Minister Park Neung...
WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP): President-elect Joe Biden’s first Cabinet picks are coming tomorrow and planning is under way for a pandemic-modified inauguration in January as his team moves forward despite roadblocks from the Trump administration....
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP): Thousands of people marched in Taipei’s streets on Sunday demanding the reversal of a decision to allow US pork imports into Taiwan, alleging food safety issues. President Tsai Ing-wen’s administration lifted a long-standing...
MOSCOW (AP): When Yekaterina Kobzeva, a nurse at a preschool in Russia’s Ural Mountains, began having trouble breathing, she called an ambulance. It was four days before she managed to find a free hospital bed. The ambulance first took her to...
