NEW DELHI (NYTIMES) – India, the unmatched vaccine manufacturing power, is giving away millions of doses to neighbours friendly and estranged. It is trying to counter China, which has made doling out shots a central plank of its foreign relations. And the United Arab Emirates, drawing on its oil riches, is buying jabs on behalf […]
BETHESDA, MARYLAND (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden on Thursday (Feb 11) said the coronavirus vaccination programme he inherited from Mr Donald Trump was in “much worse shape” than he had expected, while urging patience and also announcing the government has bought 200 million more doses. “We’re not going to have everything fixed for a […]
HAVANA — Car dealerships, book publishing and hedge funds are still off-limits. Bed-and-breakfasts are not. Zoos, scuba diving centers and weapons production remain out of bounds. Veterinary services aren’t. As Cuba’s Communist government continues its piecemeal expansion of the fledgling private sector, Cubans are carefully parsing a list of the economic activities that the government […]
Rioters went to the Capitol building because “we take orders from our president,” Donald Trump’s impeachment trial has heard. Democratic representative Diana Degette told the Senate hearing how she was one of the “unlucky members” stuck in the House gallery on 6 January as “the mob” came in, and how she “heard gunshots and flung myself […]
Americans who have completed their Covid vaccine can ignore quarantine rules – but only for three months, US government officials said. The Centers for Disease Control says that people who have been fully-vaccinated do not have to quarantine for 14 days if exposed to someone who tested positive for Covid. CDC bosses said this rule […]
Leslie E. Robertson, the structural engineer of the World Trade Center whose work came under intense scrutiny after the complex was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, died on Thursday at his home in San Mateo, Calif. He was 92. The death was confirmed by his daughter Karla Mei Robertson. She said […]
This is the horrific moment a huge truck crashes into the back of other vehicles during a 100-vehicle pile-up that has killed at least three people. The terrifying footage shows a FedEx truck ploughing into vehicles that had already crashed in icy conditions on a freeway in Fort Worth, Texas, at around 7am this morning. […]
When Chris Coy became Calgary’s first Black firefighter 25 years ago, his heroic vision of the profession was almost immediately upended. First, he said, during training he was hazed more than his colleagues, strapped to a stretcher against his will and repeatedly doused with a fire hose. Then there were the co-workers who ostracized him […]
Jeremiah Johnson, a 33-year-old self-described prophet, was one of the few evangelical Christians who took Donald J. Trump’s political future seriously back in 2015. This track record created a loyal audience of hundreds of thousands of people who follow him on social media and hang on his predictions about such topics as the coronavirus pandemic, […]
A pastor was condemned for telling his congregation that having a Covid vaccine would leave them with ‘the mark of the beast.’ Albert Ixchu made the false claim during a service at the Brotherhood of Faith church in Homeland, Florida, last month while claiming the new injections were the work of Satan. He also repeated […]