TOKYO — Japan’s biggest cities are under a state of emergency as coronavirus deaths rise, even while the country tries to convince the world it can safely hold the Summer Olympics. South Korea is prohibiting gatherings of five or more people to keep a recent surge in cases under control. Hong Kong…
Month: January 2021
Militants Storm Hotel in Somali Capital and Blasts Rock Area
NAIROBI, Kenya — Militants with the extremist group al-Shabab stormed a major hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday evening, the authorities said, raising fears of growing violence in the Horn of Africa nation as it faces a bitterly contested election season and the withdrawal of American troops. The attack, which…
Navalny Supporters Are Met With Heavy Police Force Across Russia
new video loaded: Navalny Supporters Are Met With Heavy Police Force Across Russia transcript Back bars 0:00/1:39 –1:39 transcript Navalny Supporters Are Met With Heavy Police Force Across Russia Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Russia for the second consecutive week, defying the Kremlin in support of the jailed opposition leader…
How to See YouTube Tags (2021)
So, here we are assuming you are a small business or brand, or a vlogger with a Youtube channel. The whole idea behind you producing quality video content is to get your name out there and to do that, you want your videos to rank as high as possible. After Google, Youtube…
How to Share a Private Video on YouTube (2021)
YouTube is one of the few sites that offer the ability to privately share content. Not only are they limited to up to 50 people, but they also do not appear in the video recommendations, search results, and tab video sections. And, if this is not enough privacy, the people that you…
How to Upload a Private Video on YouTube (2021)
Many YouTube videos are meant for sharing, but not everyone wants other people to see the videos that they upload. There could be several reasons for this, whether you’ve created a video meant only for family and friends or you want to keep a business video private. Fortunately, you have the option…
How to Install TubeBuddy on Chrome (+ Reviews)
When you need help with managing your YouTube channel, TubeBuddy can provide the tools that you need. It can be installed as a Chrome extension so that you are able to make the most of the tools that it offers. Some say that TubeBuddy is best used with Chrome, rather than other…
How to Install TubeBuddy on Firefox (+ Reviews)
TubeBuddy is a browser extension designed to help you manage your YouTube channel. It has received a large number of positive reviews, averaging a rating of around 4.5 on most platforms. It can be used in different browsers, making it ideal for Firefox users. If you want to install TubeBuddy on Firefox,…
Britain’s vaccine rollout is a rare pandemic-response success for the country.
With nearly eight million people, or 11.7 percent of the population, having already received their first shot, Britain’s pace of vaccination is the fastest of any large nation in the world. Only Israel and the United Arab Emirates are moving faster. Britain has set up dozens of vaccination centers in sports stadiums,…
A Seattle hospital refrigerator malfunction led to a frenzied overnight inoculation drive.
Wearing bathrobes, pajamas or whatever else they could quickly throw on, hundreds of people flocked to get Covid vaccines in Seattle on Thursday night after a refrigerator that was chilling 1,600 doses broke down, leading to a frenzied overnight inoculation drive. The impromptu vaccinations began after a refrigerator malfunctioned at a Kaiser…
At Elite French Universities, Students Demand Environmental Action
PARIS — The sprawling campus of the École Polytechnique, one of the world’s finest engineering schools, has long been a magnet for major French industrial and energy companies, eager to attract some of France’s brightest minds. So when it was announced last year that the oil and gas giant Total would establish…
E.U. Approves AstraZeneca Vaccine and Limits Exports
“We’re trying to really catch up, and there’s not much more we can do,” Mr. Soriot said. “The facts are that we have enough quantity that we are delivering starting this month to the European Union, but it is not as much as we would have hoped.” Covid-19 Vaccines › Answers to…
Columbia students go on tuition strike, saying online classes aren’t worth full price.
Over 1,100 undergraduate and graduate students at Columbia University have pledged to withhold their tuition for the spring semester to demand a discount for what they see as a lost spring term. While some universities have brought students back to campus, Columbia has mostly offered online instruction for students and allowed only…
Former U.S. Climate Leaders Press Biden on Amazon Deforestation
WASHINGTON — During his presidential campaign, Joseph R. Biden Jr. said the United States should mobilize $20 billion to stop the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and impose “significant economic consequences” if deforestation continued. Brazil’s conservative populist president, Jair M. Bolsonaro, had an all-caps reply in Portuguese: “OUR SOVEREIGNTY IS NON NEGOTIABLE.”…
Biden’s Promise of Immigration Reform Raises Hopes in Latin America
Aides to Mr. Biden have said he eventually intends to abolish some if not all of these rules and will resume processing asylum seekers at ports of entry along the border. But they have cautioned that the process will begin slowly. Still, migrants and their advocates said they hope that the administration…
The variant that emerged in South Africa is reported in the U.S. for the first time.
Health officials in South Carolina said on Thursday that they had detected two cases of a more contagious variant of the coronavirus that emerged in South Africa. It was the first report of that variant being detected in the United States. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control said it…
Archaeologists Discover Spot in Alaska Where Indigenous Fort Once Stood
Archaeologists have discovered the spot in southeastern Alaska where an Indigenous tribe built a wooden fort more than two centuries ago to resist Russian invaders. The fort was built in the early 1800s by the Tlingit people in Sitka, which is on Baranof Island and part of what is now known as…
Janez Jansa Kicks Off a Culture War in Slovenia’s Museums
The directors of publicly funded museums in Slovenia serve five-year terms, and many were scheduled to come up for renewal shortly after Mr. Jansa took power. “On the one side there’s people who want museums to be responsible, relevant and ethical, and places of understanding and tolerance especially of minorities,” said Kaja…
Survivors get a vaccine on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Hundreds of survivors of the Holocaust are set to be vaccinated this week in Austria and Slovakia as part of vaccine drives organized in observance of the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, a day known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. More than seven decades after one of…
The Filibuster Fight
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Why is there a big debate over the filibuster? Because it benefits one political party much more than the other. If you examine the history of the filibuster — a Senate rule requiring a supermajority vote on many bills, rather…