GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – Amid mounting protests against President Alejandro Giamattei and a legislator for approving a controversial budget that cuts education and health spending, hundreds of protesters stormed Guatemala’s Congress and burned down part of the building. The incident happened as about 7,000 people were protesting in front of …
Read More »South Korea is taking action as new virus cases increase
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea has reported 386 new cases of coronavirus in a resurgence that could force officials to impose a ban on strong social distances in October to stimulate the unfinished economy. The country’s total number of confirmed cases has risen to 0,4033, including 303 deaths, …
Read More »The CEO of Midwest Health Systems says he has a virus, don’t wear a mask
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 …
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 »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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