9:31 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced Tuesday night an agreement for the eight teams that were not invited to restart the league in a bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort to have volunteer group trains begin at …
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Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s ongoing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I’m Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur. Australia has signed a deal to secure supplies of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca would have to pass the clinical trial. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has also …
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If you had the Black Death or bubonic plague on your 2020 bingo card, you can click this space now. A resident of South Lake Tahoe has tested positive for the human plague, the first case in California in five years. The person, “an adventurous walker,” may have been bitten …
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Coldteam project team, from left: Lea Ruefenacht, Kian Wee Chen, Eric Teitelbaum, Forrest Meggers, Kipp Bradford and Adam Rysanek. Credit: Nicholas Houchois Many people beat the summer heat by cranking the air conditioning. However, air conditioners guzzle power and emit millions of tons of carbon dioxide every day. They are …
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GENEVA / MANILA (Reuters) – Nations that may preserve COVID-19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic, Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, issuing a final closes call for countries to participate in a global vaccine pact. The WHO has an August …
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