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Fresh Covid-19 outbreaks show the virus will spread once the world is less vigilant about the pandemic, while slow global vaccine roll-out risks more variants emerging, a Chinese infectious disease specialist has warned.
“Most of the world has not yet been vaccinated. Even in countries with abundant supplies, the vaccination rate might hardly reach herd immunity level that can effectively block transmission,” wrote Zhang Wenhong, the head of S ...
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Story 3794 - Sunday May 16, 2021
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Historians will struggle for centuries to make sense of what were quite possibly the four most bizarre years in U.S. history to date: the Trump presidency.
Was President Donald Trump sui generis? Or was he merely the product of forces that had been gathering in the Republican Party for years?
The correct answer, I believe, is some of both. Trump represented, to a certain degree, the apotheosis of long-term trends in the GOP, including racis ...
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Story 3793 - Saturday May 15, 2021
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BEIJING -- China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, a technically challenging feat more difficult than a moon landing, in the latest step forward for its ambitious goals in space.
Plans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days of diagnostic tests before rolling down a ramp to explore an area of Mars known as Utopia Planitia. It will join an American rover that arrived at the red planet in February.
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Story 3792 - Friday May 14, 2021
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DENVER, Colorado - Two small planes collided in the air near Denver, Colorado. One aircraft was nearly ripped in half and forcing the other's pilot to use a parachute. Both planes landed safely and no one was injured.
The incident occurred when both planes were getting ready to land at a small regional airport near Denver suburb Wednesday.
"Every one of these pilots needs to go buy a lottery ticket right now," Arapahoe County sheriff's Depu ...
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Story 3791 - Friday May 14, 2021
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China's Xinjiang region has evolved over the past two decades into a major production hub for many of the companies that supply the world with parts needed to build solar panels.
But new research suggests that much of that work could rely on the exploitation of the region's Uyghur population and other ethnic and religious minorities, potentially tainting a significant portion of the global supply chain for a renewable energy source critical to ...
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Story 3790 - Thursday May 13, 2021
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WASHINGTON — After Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., was ousted from House GOP leadership Wednesday, she expressed dismay about how her fellow Republicans who criticized former President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol now embrace his “big lie” about the 2020 presidential election.
“It's a scary thing,” Cheney said in an exclusive interview with NBC’s “TODAY” co-host Savannah Guthrie when asked how Republicans who chose not to remov ...
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Story 3789 - Wednesday May 12, 2021
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Hong Kong When Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is unloaded in countries around the world, hundreds of millions of doses will come with the label "Made in China."
Chinese companies have made agreements over the past month to manufacture more than 260 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, which has been approved for use in more than 60 countries, including a large number of developing nations such as Mexico, India and Argentina.
The deals are ...
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Story 3788 - Thursday May 13, 2021
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Survivors of a ruthless terrorist attack in Kabul that killed dozens of children have spoken of their trauma at seeing young students maimed by at least three explosions.
They spoke of their determination that surviving children should continue their education despite the threat of terrorism, whether from ISIS or the Taliban.
The Taliban denied the attack, while ISIS, who have a small presence in Afghanistan and have conducted similar attac ...
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Story 3787 - Monday May 10, 2021
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Kabul, May 10 .- The toll from a recent bomb attack near a secondary school for girls in western Kabul increased to 85 dead and 147 injured, according to the authorities in Afghanistan on Monday.
The rise in the number of casualties in the car bombing in a Shiite-majority neighborhood, which has a large population of the persecuted Hazara ethnic minority, came as a result of a revised count of the casualties after the evacuation process.
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Story 3786 - Monday May 10, 2021
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A doctor who treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he collapsed on a flight in Russia last year has gone missing, according to police.
Physician Alexander Murakhovsky left a hunting base in a forest in Omsk, Siberia, about 2,200km east of Moscow, in an all-terrain vehicle on Friday.
Police in the region - which is vast but extremely sparsely populated - said emergency services, drones, a helicopter and volunteers on the ground were a ...
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Story 3785 - Monday May 10, 2021
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PHOENIX — Joshua Matthew Black said in a YouTube video that he was protecting the officer at the U.S. Capitol who had been pepper sprayed and fallen to the ground as the crowd rushed the building entrance on Jan. 6.
“Let him out, he’s done,” Black claimed to have told rioters.
But federal prosecutors say surveillance footage doesn’t back up Black’s account. They said he acknowledged that he wanted to get the officer out of the way — becaus ...
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Story 3784 - Monday May 10, 2021
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A fire erupted Monday at Kuwait's largest oil field, injuring two workers, the country's state-run news agency reported.
The injured workers were in stable condition and receiving treatment at a nearby hospital, according to the state-run KUNA news agency, citing Qusai al-Amer, the Kuwait Oil Company spokesman.
The blaze at the Great Burgan Field in the southeastern desert of Kuwait, which produces some 1.6 mi ...
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Story 3783 - Sunday May 9, 2021
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ISLAMABAD - A powerful bomb blast Saturday near a girls’ school in Kabul, Afghanistan, has killed at least 50 people and injured more than 100 others. The Interior Ministry said that it expects the death toll to rise.
The evening bombing occurred in the city’s Shi’ite Muslim majority neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi.
Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said mostly young girl students were among the victims.
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Story 3782 - Sunday May 9, 2021
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U.S. government officials were working closely with top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline on Sunday to help it recover from a ransomware cyberattack that forced the company to shut a critical fuel network supplying populous eastern states.
The attack is one of the most disruptive digital ransom operations reported and has prompted calls from American lawmakers to tighten protections for critical U.S. energy infrastructure against h ...
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Story 3781 - Saturday May 8, 2021
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Last October, the White House released the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking. The plan was motivated, in part, by a greater understanding of the pervasiveness of the crime. In 2019, 11,500 situations of human trafficking in the United States were identified through the National Human Trafficking Hotline, and the federal government estimates there are nearly 25 million victims globally.
This increasing awareness has also motivate ...
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Story 3780 - Saturday May 8, 2021
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In December 2020, news media reported a new variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and since then, other variants have been identified and are under investigation. The new variants raise questions: Are people more at risk for getting sick? Will the COVID-19 vaccines still work? Are there new or different things you should do now to keep your family safe?
Stuart Ray, M.D., vice chair of medicine for data integrity and analytics, and R ...
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Story 3779 - Saturday May 8, 2021
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A top U.S. admiral has said that Taiwan is in China's military sights, warning of possible military action in the next six years, as well as fears Beijing could overtake America's global leadership role in the coming decades.
"Taiwan is clearly one of their ambitions. ... And I think the threat is manifest during this decade, in fact, in the next six years," Adm. Philip Davidson, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, told a Senate Armed ...
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Story 3778 - Saturday May 8, 2021
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NORFOLK, Virginia - Family members of a Black man who was fatally shot in his car by sheriff’s deputies in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, will get to view more body camera footage of the incident on Tuesday. But they will only be shown a fraction of the recorded footage, under a judge’s written ruling.
Attorneys for Andrew Brown Jr.’s family had expected to see the video as soon as this week after Judge Jeffery Foster ruled from the bench on ...
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WASHINGTON DC - The Department of Justice said as of Thursday, they had arrested approximately 440 people in connection with the Capitol riot on January 6. But four months after the attack, the FBI is still searching for suspects accused of vicious attacks on officers and members of the media.
Of the 440 arrested so far, CBS News has independently reviewed the cases of 400 defendants. More than 100 of those were charged with assaulting, resist ...
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Story 3776 - Saturday May 8, 2021
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MINNEAPOLIS - A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death, accusing them of willfully violating the Black man’s constitutional rights as he was restrained face-down on the pavement and gasping for air.
A three-count indictment unsealed Friday names Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao. Chauvin was convicted last month on state charges of murder and mansl ...
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