MINEPOLIS (AP) – The head of one of the Midwest’s largest regional health systems has told his staff he’s recovered from Covid-19 and returned to office fees – without a mask. Kelby Crab Benhoft, president and chief executive of Sanford Health, said in an email on Wednesday that he believes …
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SURTIUS, NY (AP) – A little owl, dehydrated and hungry in the branches of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, is returning to good health and preparing to leave on a wild Saturday. The adult male so-wet owl was called Rockefeller, when a giant holiday tree was set up in Manhattan …
Read More »U.S. In Pfizer demanding emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine
Pfizer said Friday it is asking regulators in the U.S. to allow the use of its COVID-19 vaccine emergency, a process the clock began early next month and finally began to limit the first shot as the epidemic ended – not until after one but a long, harsh winter. Pfizer …
Read More »The leader of Azerbaijan promoted the acquisition of territory occupied by Armenia
MOSCOW (AP) – Azerbaijan’s president announced Friday that his troops have taken control of the Agdam region, a region backed by Armenia in a ceasefire agreement that ends fighting on Nagorno-Karabakh. The fighting by Russia last week was a condition that Armenia ceded control of parts of Azerbaijan outside the …
Read More »In many countries, alarm bells are ringing over the famine crisis
ABS, Yemen (AP) – Boy twins lie on a bed of woven palm leaves in a remote camp for displaced people in northern Yemen, their collar bones and ribs visible. They were crying loudly, as if in pain, as if they were fed up with no pain, no disease, but …
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