North America

Blaze defies US firefighters, power firm under scrutiny

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- The large wildfire scorching the western US state of Oregon topped 300,000 acres Monday…

New Haiti govt to be formed Tuesday, Ariel Henry as PM

by Robenson Geffrard PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- Haiti's interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who has run the country since the…

US warns Covid ‘becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated’

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US health authorities on Friday pleaded with Covid vaccine holdouts to roll up their…

Major US wildfire grows, forcing new evacuations

  LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- With oppressively hot, dry weather looming over much of the Western US and…

Haitian police close net in probe of president’s murder

  by Robenson Geffrard Agence France Presse PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- The assassination of Jovenel Moise by armed mercenaries was…

Mandatory indoor mask use returns to Los Angeles

  LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- Wearing a face mask at an indoor public establishments will once again be…

Huge fires rage in western US, Canada

  LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- More than a million acres of the western US and Canada were in…

US pushes ASEAN to hold Myanmar accountable on coup

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The US has "deep concerns" about the situation in Myanmar following February's coup, urging the…

‘Increased risk’ of rare nerve disorder after J&J Covid vaccine: US

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The US Food and Drug Administration updated its warning labels Monday for the Johnson &…

Wildfires rage across million acres as heat wave stifles western US, Canada

by Andrew MARSZAL LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- Wildfires were burning across more than one million acres of the…

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