UN NEWS—Three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials to find effective treatments against COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday. The therapies — artesunate, imatinib and infliximab — will be tested on hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 52
UN News - Despite an overall decrease in maritime traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic, piracy and armed robbery of ships rose by nearly 20 per cent during the first half of last year, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Monday. Addressing a
Antigua and Barbuda has lost one of its most distinguished and heroic sons as former Prime Minister Sir Lester Bird passed has passed away at the age of 83. The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) confirmed in a post that Bird passed away around 6
CHRISTINA LARSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS - NASA’s newest Mars rover came up empty Friday in its first attempt to pick up a rock sample to eventually be brought back to Earth. The rover Perseverance drilled into the floor of the planet’s Jezero Crater to extract a finger-sized
The Government of Dominica has imposed a weekend lockdown as COVID-19 cases continue to spike. Latest statistics show there are 158 active cases on the island - most of which are unvaccinated. The absolute curfew commenced at 6:00 pm last Friday, August 6th, 2021 and will
Jamaica has once again dominated the track and field sprint event with a gold in the 4x100m relay at this year's Tokyo Olympics. On Friday, two-time Olympian Elaine Thompson-Herah ran the second leg on Jamaica's gold medal-winning women's 4x100m relay team along with teammates Briana Williams, Shericka Jackson and
MOHANED AWAD and CARA ANNA, ASSOCIATED PRESS—From time to time, a body floating down the river separating Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region from Sudan was a silent reminder of a war conducted in the shadows. But in recent days, the corpses became a flow. Bloated, drained of color from
After a successful election that led to the landslide victory of the Labour Party in St. Lucia, the new officials including the island's elected Prime Minister will be sworn in Thursday, and a new cabinet will also be announced. The ceremony will be held in the
UN NEWS—The head of the UN health organization called on Wednesday for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until “at least the end of September” to enable the world’s most vulnerable people to be inoculated. “I understand the concern of all Governments to protect their people from the Delta variant, but we cannot
UN News - COVID-19 infections have continued to rise globally for more than a month now, with over four million cases reported in the past week alone, the UN health agency said. In its latest update, the World Health Organization (WHO) attributed the uptick to “substantial” caseload increases of 33 per cent in the Western Pacific and 37 per cent in the Eastern Mediterranean – where coronavirus fatalities also rose 48 and 31
