Doctors and medical workers in Myanmar have urged for help as they believe the military personnel specifically target civilians to lure the doctors into their trap. Meanwhile, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has warned Canada against climate change. Click on headlines to read more Doctors become Myanmar military’s targets for…
Decades after his patriotism, an Oakland Army veteran is being honored with a Congressional medal for his military service during World War II. At 98, Harry Lew is one of just 300 or so surviving Chinese American veterans of the war. Last year, Congress awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to…
ST. AGATHA, Maine — The Long Lake ice was melting fast on Saturday under a warm spring sun, but a determined group of northern Maine volunteers worked faster to make a 27-acre circular chunk of lake ice spin and recapture the World Championship Ice Carousel Record. Northern Maine Ice Busters…
Funeral workers load the casket of a person who died after contracting Covid-19 into a hearse at East County Mortuary in El Cajon, California, on January 15. Mario Tama/Getty Images About 618,523 people will have died from coronavirus in the US by August 1, according to the latest forecast from…
Here’s what you need to know: Police officers questioned drivers at a checkpoint after the start of a curfew in New Delhi on Friday.Credit…Rebecca Conway for The New York Times When the coronavirus first struck India last year, the country enforced one of the world’s strictest national lockdowns. The warning…
President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro speaks at the Planalto Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, on March 31. Mateus Bononi/Getty Images The Brazilian Senate will open an inquiry into the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, as President Jair Bolsonaro continues to avoid lockdown measures despite the country’s mounting death toll. Earlier…
By Vanessa Gera | Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Hospitals in Turkey and Poland are filling up. Pakistan is restricting domestic travel. The U.S. government will send more help to the state with the country’s worst infection increase. The worldwide surge in coronavirus cases and deaths includes even Thailand, which…
In a statement issued via his Spokesperson, António Guterres said developing economies had struggled to secure enough financial resources to cope with the onset of the coronavirus crisis, “let alone to recover from it.” Since the beginning of the crisis, the Secretary-General has called for liquidity, the statement continued, through…
By Vanessa Gera | Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Hospitals in Turkey and Poland are filling up. Pakistan is restricting domestic travel. The U.S. government will send more help to the state with the country’s worst infection increase. The worldwide surge in coronavirus cases and deaths includes even Thailand, which…
The deepest shipwreck dive in history has uncovered a WWII US Navy destroyer four miles underwater. The USS Johnston was found east of Samar Island in the Philippines. The wreck was a US Navy Fletcher-class destroyer, sunk on October 25 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf to liberate the…
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