COVID-19 outbreak at Oregon’s Bootleg blaze sidelines 9 firefighters
By Barbara Goldberg
(Reuters) – The first COVID-19 outbreak among firefighters battling the enormous Bootleg fire in Oregon has put (More…)
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Officials in Japan warn of potential earthquake, that could be worse than Fukushima, is overdue
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Global supply chains buckle as virus variant and disasters strike
By Jonathan Saul, Muyu Xu and Yilei Sun
LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) – A new worldwide wave of COVID-19. Natural disasters in (More…)
Sierra Leone parliament votes to abolish death penalty
DAKAR (Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s parliament voted unanimously on Friday to repeal the death penalty more than two decades after (More…)
As Americans navigate conflicting COVID-19 mask advice, ‘everyone is confused’
By Joseph Ax and Tim Reid
PRINCETON, N.J./SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Reuters) – A COVID-19 surge ignited in parts of the (More…)
United States buys 200 million more doses of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech said on Friday the U.S. government has purchased 200 million additional doses of (More…)
White House sees YouTube, Facebook as ‘Judge, Jury & Executioner’ on vaccine misinformation
By Nandita Bose
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China bars for-profit tutoring in core school subjects -document
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At least 112 dead in India as rains trigger floods, landslides
By Rajendra Jadhav
MUMBAI (Reuters) -At least 112 people have died in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, authorities said (More…)
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
(Reuters) – Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus right now:
Sydney’s outbreak throws spotlight on vaccine rollout
After the flood, Germany battles to clear mountains of trash
By Andi Kranz and Leon Kuegeler
BAD NEUENAHR, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s most devastating floods in 60 years have created (More…)
