BIHCA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – Hundreds of migrants were stranded in a burnt tent camp in Bosnia on Saturday as winter temperatures plummeted due to heavy snowfall in the country. Migrants to the Lipa camp in northwestern Bosnia were wrapped in blankets and sleeping bags to protect themselves from the biting …
Read More »Beijing asks residents to put up for the holidays
BEIJING (AP) – Beijing has urged not to leave the city during the lunar New Year holiday in February, imposing new sanctions after some coronavirus infections last week. Two domestic cases were reported Friday, a convenience store worker and a Hewlett-Packard enterprise employee. Two other asymptomatic cases were found in …
Read More »After initial success, the S. Korea virus fell asleep in crisis
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus: its initial testing, contact-detection and quarantine efforts paid off quickly when the lockout erupted without economic pain. But a fatal resurgence during Christmas week has reached new heights, exploring the soul of how the …
Read More »The coronavirus soaks up the joy of Christmas in Bethlehem and elsewhere
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) – Bethlehem began on Thursday, the eve of Christmas, with an influx of cheerful marching bands and the triumphant arrival of the top Catholic priest in the Holy Land, but few came there to welcome him as a coronavirus epidemic and one. Celebrations got wet with …
Read More »Gift of Japanese spacecraft: charcoal-like asteroid chips
TOKYO (AP) – It looks like small pieces of charcoal, but clay samples collected from a planet on Earth by a Japanese spacecraft and returned to Earth were hardly disappointing. The specimens described on Thursday by Japanese space officials are as large as 1 centimeter (0.4 inches) and are hard …
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