Showing posts with label World News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World News. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Boeing's Starliner astronauts could return on SpaceX capsule in Feb 2025, NASA says

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WASHINGTON - NASA officials said on Wednesday the twoastronauts delivered to the International Space Station in June by Boeing's Starlin...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Dozens injured after train derails in Netherlands: emergency services

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The HAGUE, Netherlands  — At least 30 people were injured after a passenger train derailed in the southern Netherlands on Tuesday, emergency...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Brazil's Bolsonaro faces probes over $3.2M Saudi jewels

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BRASILIA - Brazil's justice minister asked federal police Monday to investigate reports ex-president Jair Bolsonaro tried to illegally i...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Brexit compounded UK's shortage of doctors, says study

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LONDON, United Kingdom - Brexit has compounded a shortage of doctors in Britain, with an estimated shortfall of 4,000 in major specialty are...
Sunday, October 9, 2022

Death toll from missiles on Ukraine town rises to 17

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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine - At least 17 people including a child died when seven Russian missiles struck the industrial town of Zaporizhzhia in ...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

White House blasts 'radical' Republican abortion bans

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The White House on Friday blasted the latest set of "radical" abortion restrictions in four more states run by Republicans, signal...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Bacteria behind rare disease found in US soil and water samples

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WASHINGTON, United States - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday issued a health advisory to clinicians after d...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

‘Evil’ like Texas massacre a reason to arm, not disarm: Trump

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Former US president Donald Trump rejected calls for tightened gun controls Friday following the Texas school massacre, saying decent America...
Friday, April 15, 2022

CIA warns desperate Putin poses nuclear threat

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WASHINGTON — Russia's setbacks in its invasion of Ukraine could lead President Vladimir Putin to resort to using a tactical or low-yield...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

'Shanghai won't lock down despite COVID spike'

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Shanghai on Saturday recorded a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, but a member of the city's pandemic task force said officials were determi...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Shanghai pushes ahead with mass COVID tests as new cases spike

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SHANGHAI - The Chinese commercial hub of Shanghai is pushing ahead with a mass testing initiative as it tries to curb a new spike in COVID-1...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Austria to further ease COVID restrictions

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ZURICH - Austria will begin easing COVID-19 related restrictions next week, Chancellor Karl Nehammer told a news conference on Saturday, all...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Germany daily COVID cases rise above 200,000

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BERLIN - The number of new COVID-19 infections in Germany exceeded 200,000 in a day for the first time on Thursday, hitting staffing at comp...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Fauci warns of bleak winter with Omicron 'raging through the world'

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WASHINGTON, United States - Top US pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci on Sunday warned of a bleak winter ahead as the Covid-19 Omicron variant s...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

69,601 new infections, 527 dead from COVID in Germany in 1 day

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BERLIN - Germany recorded the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 since February on Wednesday as it battles to stop a fourth wave of the ...
Thursday, December 2, 2021

Time to ‘think about mandatory vaccination’, says European Union chief

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It is time for the European Union to "think about mandatory vaccination" against COVID-19, European Commission chief Ursula von de...
Friday, November 26, 2021

BioNTech/Pfizer expect new variant impact data 'within 2 weeks'

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Germany's BioNTech said Friday it was urgently studying how well the coronavirus vaccine it developed with Pfizer protects against the n...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Israel begins giving COVID shots to children age 5 to 11

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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel on Tuesday began administering the coronavirus vaccine to children age 5 to 11. The country recently emerged ...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

US authorizes COVID-19 boosters for all adults, recommends for over-50s

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The United States authorized the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all people aged 18 and older on Friday, as the world's...
Monday, November 8, 2021

Germany's seven-day COVID incidence rate rises to record high

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Germany's incidence rate measuring the number of new coronavirus infections per 100,000 people over the last seven days soared to 201.1 ...