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The United States is defending its military movements near Taiwan, where China has sent personnel in a show of force intended to defend Beijing’s claims to sovereignty over the self-governing island backed by Washington. Air Force senior colonel Zhang Chunhui, spokesman for the Chinese People’s Army Eastern Theater Command, announced …

Another study examined COVID risks to outpatient care of residents. 13 August 2020, 8:01 p.m. 6 min reading Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail this article At a time when nursing homes continue to be among the institutions hardest hit in the coronavirus pandemic, new studies are beginning to provide insight …

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan on Thursday unveiled an increase of T $ 42.1 billion ($ 1.4 billion) in planned spending on defense next year, as China announced details of its latest battlefield near the democratic island. FILE PHOTO: A CM-11 Brave Tiger tank burns during the live fire Han Kuang …

The upshot: Black women had to work an extra seven and a half months this year on top of the 12 months they worked last year just to make as much as their White, non-Spanish male servants did in 2019. That’s according to the Equal Pay Today campaign, an umbrella …

Newly released emails show Sweden’s top epidemiologist brainstorming ways “herd immunity” could be achieved to curb the spread of COVID-19, an approach that this week marked a failure by one academic study. While governments around the world have used a variety of tactics in their efforts to stop the new …