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Month: February 2021
U.S. Officials Warn Governors Against Easing Restrictions
The federal government warned impatient governors against relaxing pandemic control measures on Friday, saying that a recent steep drop in U.S. coronavirus cases and deaths “may be stalling” and “potentially leveling off at still a very high number” — a worrisome development that comes as more cases of concerning new variants have…
Mark Machin Resigns From Canada’s Top Pension Fund After U.A.E. Vaccination
The head of Canada’s largest pension fund stepped down on Thursday evening after news broke that he had flown to the United Arab Emirates to receive a coronavirus vaccine, despite federal rules banning inessential travel and a long line of older and immunocompromised citizens across the country waiting for their shots. The…
U.S. Buys 100,000 Doses of an Eli Lilly Antibody Treatment
The federal government has agreed to buy 100,000 doses of a recently authorized Covid-19 treatment from Eli Lilly, increasing the supply of such drugs for patients who are high risk of becoming seriously ill but are not yet hospitalized. Under the deal, announced on Friday, the government will pay $210 million and…
Germans Clamor for Covid Vaccines, but Shun AstraZeneca’s Offering
BERLIN — At the start of the year, many Germans were complaining about a shortage of coronavirus vaccines that could free them from onerous lockdowns and limited social lives. Just weeks later, many are now upset that they’re not getting the vaccine they want. As people around the world clamor for inoculations,…
New Covid-19 Infections Have Fallen to Half in Europe, W.H.O. Says
new video loaded: New Covid-19 Infections Have Fallen to Half in Europe, W.H.O. Says transcript Back bars 0:00/0:50 –0:50 transcript New Covid-19 Infections Have Fallen to Half in Europe, W.H.O. Says Heightened restrictions on social interaction have caused the rates of Covid-19 cases to fall in Europe. But the World Health Organization…
Police in Malta Say Arrests Are Complete in Journalist’s 2017 Murder
More than three years after a car bomb killed Malta’s best-known journalist and sent shock waves across Europe, the head of the Mediterranean island nation’s police force has declared that all those it believes to have been involved in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia have now been arrested. But an announcement…
On the Front Lines of Diplomacy, but at the Back of the Line for a Vaccine
WASHINGTON — In the best of times, working at the United States Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo, was always difficult: Pollution, poor electricity, unreliable internet service and a substandard health system there rendered it a hardship post for American diplomats. That was before the coronavirus pandemic. In a cautionary cable sent last week…
W.H.O. Warns Wealthy Countries Are Undermining Covax Program
new video loaded: W.H.O. Warns Wealthy Countries Are Undermining Covax Program transcript Back bars 0:00/1:03 –1:03 transcript W.H.O. Warns Wealthy Countries Are Undermining Covax Program The head of the World Health Organization said some of the vaccine manufacturing deals wealthier countries were entering took away from the number of vaccines available to…
A Top Democrat Warns Against a Hasty Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Afghanistan
The Taliban have recently issued orders to their fighters to stop foreign militants from entering their ranks. The orders, reported earlier by the Afghan channel ToloNews, are believed to be at least part of an attempt to show the United States that the Taliban are taking steps toward breaking from Al Qaeda,…
Migrants in Mexico Face Confusion at Border
Juan Mendez III, the mayor of Brownsville who is known as Trey, said even as his community deals with power outages and the pandemic, it can help support migrants as they continue their journey to relatives in the United States to pursue their cases. The number of migrants so far released into…
Italy Mourns an Ambassador and His Bodyguard, Killed in Congo
Italians on Tuesday mourned the death of Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was killed in an ambush with his bodyguard and their driver while taking part in a humanitarian convoy with the World Food Program. The national media were packed with tributes to Mr. Attanasio,…
Nepal’s Supreme Court Rules Dissolved Parliament Must Be Reinstated
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the country’s Parliament, which was dissolved in December by the country’s prime minister, must be reconvened, pushing the Himalayan nation into another round of political instability. Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli of Nepal dissolved Parliament on Dec. 20 following protracted internal…
Giving Hope, and a Place to Mourn: Memorials to the Pandemic
The Codogno memorial is not the first in Lombardy, one of the Italian regions first affected by the coronavirus. Last August, the nearby town of Casalpusterlengo unveiled a memorial designed by Ottorino Buttarelli, a local artist, featuring stones piled into a small tower, to represent townspeople who have died. In an email…
Movie theaters in N.Y.C. can reopen with limited capacity late next week, Cuomo says.
Movie theaters in New York City will be permitted to open for the first time in nearly a year on March 5, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced at a news conference on Monday. The theaters will only be permitted to operate at 25 percent of their maximum capacity, with no more than…
Boris Johnson Maps Out Plan to Lift Virus Lockdown
new video loaded: Boris Johnson Maps Out Plan to Lift Virus Lockdown transcript Back bars 0:00/1:07 –1:07 transcript Boris Johnson Maps Out Plan to Lift Virus Lockdown Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain outlined a plan to remove lockdown measures as a path toward “freedom” for the region. We cannot escape the…
Pressuring France to Bring Them Home, Women Who Joined ISIS Stage Hunger Strike
PARIS — In a desperate appeal to France’s government, some 10 Frenchwomen who joined the Islamic State and are now being held in detention camps in Syria began a hunger strike on Saturday, protesting the government’s refusal to bring them home for trial. The women are among dozens of French mothers and…
New York Finds Case of Variant First Seen in South Africa
A person from a suburb east of New York City has been confirmed as the first New York resident to have been infected by a more contagious variant of the coronavirus that emerged in South Africa, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Sunday. Few other details were offered about the case, including…
Fauci expects Americans could still need to wear face masks in 2022.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser for Covid-19, said on Sunday that Americans may still be wearing masks outside their homes a year from now, even as he predicted the country would return to “a significant degree of normality” by fall. “I want it to keep going down to…
Ex-Artistic Director of Greece’s National Theater Held After Rape Arrest Warrant
ATHENS — The Greek police on Saturday evening arrested the former artistic director of the country’s prestigious National Theater, who has been the target of accusations of sexual abuse and harassment that have buffeted the Greek arts world over the past weeks. Dimitris Lignadis turned himself in at the Athens police headquarters…