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Month: January 2021
Italy says it will sue Pfizer over delays in vaccine delivery.
Italy plans to take legal action against the American drugmaker Pfizer for delays in the delivery of coronavirus vaccines, Domenico Arcuri, Italy’s special commissioner for the pandemic, said in a statement on Tuesday night. On Friday, Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, said they would deliver fewer doses than expected to European…
Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister Dies From Covid-19
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s minister of foreign affairs and international trade, Sibusiso Busi Moyo, has died, the office of the president said on Wednesday. The cause was complications related to Covid-19. Mr. Moyo became the fourth high-ranking official in Zimbabwe to succumb to the virus since the start of the pandemic. “The…
Trump Bequeaths Biden an Upended World
This global cultural battle will continue because the conditions of its eruption — insecurity, disappearing jobs, resentment in societies made still more unequal by the impact of Covid-19 — persist from France to Latin America. The Trump phenomenon also persists. His tens of millions of supporters are not about to vanish. “Were…
Russia mulls ‘Covid passports’ to let people with some immunity travel more easily.
The Russian government is considering issuing coronavirus health certificates that could ease travel and commerce for people who have been vaccinated or who have antibodies from surviving the disease, while sharply limiting the liberties of others — an idea that has also been floated in the European Union and by private companies. Proponents…
U.S. Says China’s Repression of Uighurs Is ‘Genocide’
Tensions sharply worsened from 2009, when Uighurs taking part in ethnic riots killed about 200 Han in Urumqi, the regional capital, after earlier tensions and violence. Chinese security forces began a sweeping crackdown. Attacks and more crackdowns occurred across Uighur towns in the years afterward, as well as in some cities outside…
Is SEO a Good Career in 2021? Here’s The Honest Truth
Yes, SEO is a good career in 2021 because it gives you access to diverse opportunities. You can work in-house, take on clients, and even start and grow websites that you own. Plus, the three of the most popular websites Google.com, YouTube.com, and Amazon.com, are also the biggest search engines. If you’d…
Incest Scandal Sets Off a New #MeToo Movement in France
Brigitte Macron, the French first lady, told TF1, a French TV station, on Sunday, “It is absolutely necessary that these actions are known, and that these actions are not silenced.” Mr. Loiseleur said, “Incest is like the elephant in the room that nobody wants to see,” adding, “It is the most widespread…
A Theater Serves as a Courthouse, Provoking Drama Offstage
BIRMINGHAM, England — One recent Monday, Sarah Buckingham walked into an auditorium at Birmingham Repertory Theater, strode up some steps to a platform and looked out at her audience. She was in full costume, with a wig, and everyone rose to their feet. It might seem like a star’s entrance, but Ms.…
Europe Welcomes Biden, but Won’t Wait for Him
As a politician with his eye on the midterm congressional elections, “Biden will focus like a laser in his first year on the pandemic, on reopening the economy, on unemployment, on infrastructure, on health care, on an economic stimulus,” Mr. Kupchan said. “There will be much less time, energy and money for…
Nikolai Antoshkin, Who Helped Halt Chernobyl Disaster, Dies at 78
MOSCOW — Gen. Nikolai T. Antoshkin, the commander of a perilous helicopter firefighting operation in which he and other pilots braved radiation exposure to contain the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, died on Sunday. He was 78. The general died after a “difficult illness,” according to a statement from the speaker of Russia’s Parliament,…
Top Biden Official Warns U.S. Covid Deaths Will Pass 500,000 in Weeks
Officials in the incoming Biden administration braced the country for continued hardship in the days after the inauguration, with the president-elect assuming control of a struggling economy and surging coronavirus outbreak in less than three days. Ron Klain, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s incoming White House chief of staff, had a dire…
Cargo Ship Sinks Near Turkey, Leaving at Least 3 Dead, Officials Say
A cargo ship sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast near the northern province of Bartin on Sunday, leaving at least three people dead, according to Turkish state media. Emergency workers have rescued at least six of the 12 crew members from the ship, the Arvin, according to Sinan Guner, the governor of…
Children’s Screen Time Has Soared in the Pandemic, Alarming Parents and Researchers
Over all, children’s screen time had doubled by May as compared with the same period in the year prior, according to Qustodio, a company that tracks usage on tens of thousands of devices used by children, ages 4 to 15, worldwide. The data showed that usage increased as time passed: In the…
How to (Literally) Drive the Coronavirus Away
Because it’s not always practical to have all the windows wide open, especially in the depths of winter, Dr. Mathai and his colleagues also modeled several other options. They found that while the most intuitive-seeming solution — having the driver and the passenger each roll down their own windows — was better…
New York City’s Filipino nurses were hard hit by last year’s surge, and dread the second wave.
Filipino nurses have a long history of working in New York City hospitals, and a number of studies have revealed how hard the coronavirus affected them in the early months of the U.S. outbreak. An analysis by ProPublica found that at least 30 Filipino health care workers in the New York City…
There have now been over two million virus-related deaths worldwide.
But the initial rollouts in many countries have been met with problems: logistical confusion, shortages of doses, unequal distribution and bureaucratic hurdles that have slowed the process of getting shots into people’s arms. Israel’s inoculation process has been the fastest, with roughly 25 percent of its population of nine million getting vaccinations…
She Killed an American in 2012. Why Was She Freed in the Taliban Deal?
Under Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. peace envoy, the American government has been willing to take dramatic steps, even in the face of opposition from the military and law enforcement, to extricate the United States from its longest war and bring about some type of peace in Afghanistan. In addition to the large-scale…
Uganda Forces Surround Home of Opposition Leader Bobi Wine
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ugandan security forces on Friday surrounded and then breached the compound of Bobi Wine, the country’s leading opposition candidate, a day after a contentious general election that he said was marred by widespread “fraud and violence.” The breach, reported by Mr. Wine and confirmed by several people involved in…
A Global Tour of a Record-Hot Year
2020 was effectively tied with 2016 for the hottest year on record, as global warming linked to greenhouse gas emissions showed no signs of letting up. Loading… Siberia and the Arctic were among the hottest regions. The heat fueled wildfires that pumped even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Temperatures in the…