Yangon, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar is set to hold national and state elections on Sunday in which Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party will take power. Take a closer look at the vote here: Basic More than 37 million of Myanmar’s 56 million …
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Rejecting fears of another recession, U.S. businesses hired at a solid pace in October, but they are signaling caution about the future of the economy as the epidemic worsens. The Labor Department said Friday Employers added 8,638,000 jobs and the overall unemployment rate plummeted to 6.9%, a …
Read More »Northern Denmark in lockdown due to virus transmitted to mink farms
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – More than a quarter of a million Danes went to a lockdown in a northern region of the country on Friday where mutants bred for its fur were infected due to mutations in the coronavirus, causing millions of animals to die. . Prime Minister Matt Frederickson …
Read More »Russia is under the spotlight as it sets a record for new viruses
MOSCOW – Every day in Russia, new coronavirus infections peak at 20,000, setting a new record since the onset of the epidemic. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia – currently the fourth largest in the world – has surpassed 1.7 million since the outbreak began in September. The …
Read More »Why Ethiopia is suddenly on the brink of civil war
Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Suddenly Ethiopia appears on the coast Civil war threatening the stability of the fracture of one of the world’s most strategic regions, Horn Africa in Africa and one of Africa’s most powerful and populous countries. Dino Mahtani, with the International Crisis Group, said this week that …
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