Canadian minister resigns over Caribbean trip
ONTARIO – Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the resignation of his finance minister who took a trip to the Caribbean while the province...
Afghan journalist shot dead in car ambush
KABUL – An Afghan journalist was shot dead in a car ambush in the central province of Ghor, the fifth media professional to be...
Singapore begins rollout of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine
SINGAPORE – A 46-year-old nurse became the first person in Singapore to receive Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, making the city-state among the first...
US detects first case of COVID variant
WILMINGTON – The first known US case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant was detected in Colorado.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said his state had...
Earthquake kills seven in Croatia
ZAGREB – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck central Croatia, with reports of many injuries and at least seven deaths.
A 12-year-old girl was killed...
India reports 6 cases of new COVID variant
NEW DELHI – Six cases of the more contagious variant of COVID-19 first identified in the UK have been confirmed in India.
The six individuals...
Mexico might allow private firms to distribute vaccines
MEXICO City – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday he is not opposed to private companies buying coronavirus vaccines to distribute to...
Saudi jails women’s rights activist, posing challenge for Biden
DUBAI – A Saudi court on Monday sentenced prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to nearly six years in prison, her family said, after...
Japan bans entry of foreign nationals
TOKYO – Japan on Monday suspended new entries into the country by nonresident foreign nationals arriving from most of the world through the end...
China jails citizen journalist for Wuhan reports
BEIJING – A Chinese citizen journalist who covered Wuhan’s coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years.
Zhang Zhan was found guilty of “picking quarrels...