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New York Times wins 3 Pulitzer Prizes; Reuters wins for feature photography

New York Times wins 3 Pulitzer Prizes; Reuters wins for feature photography

-- 2022-05-10 10:00:48

The New York Times won three Pulitzer Prizes and was named as a finalist five more times on Monday, while its rival the Washington Post took the public service award and Reuters claimed the prize for...

US imposes sanctions on three Russian TV stations, 27 bank executives

US imposes sanctions on three Russian TV stations, 27 bank executives

-- 2022-05-08 22:30:26

The United States on Sunday unveiled sanctions against three Russian television stations, banned Americans from providing accounting and consulting services to Russians, and sanctioned executives from...

Rescuers look for victims at Cuba hotel after blast kills 25

Rescuers look for victims at Cuba hotel after blast kills 25

-- 2022-05-07 21:30:04

Rescuers in Cuba's capital searched Saturday to find survivors of an explosion that killed at least 25 people and devastated a luxury hotel that once hosted dignitaries and celebrities, including Beyo...

Amazon tribes turn the tables on intruders with social media

Amazon tribes turn the tables on intruders with social media

-- 2022-05-07 20:34:50

It was dusk on April 14 when Francisco Kuruaya heard a boat approaching along the river near his village in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. He assumed it was the regular delivery boat bringing gasol...

US offers $15m reward for information on Conti ransomware group

US offers $15m reward for information on Conti ransomware group

-- 2022-05-07 15:09:40

The United States on Friday offered a reward of up to $15 million for information on the Russia-based Conti ransomware group, which has been blamed for cyber extortion attacks worldwide, State Departm...

Explosion at Cuba's Hotel Saratoga leaves 22 dead

Explosion at Cuba's Hotel Saratoga leaves 22 dead

-- 2022-05-07 10:46:01

A deadly explosion hit a well-known hotel in downtown Havana on Friday, tearing a gash several floors high in the side of the building, killing at least 22 people and injuring upwards of 70, witnesses...

Blood clot risks: US limits use of J&J Covid-19 vaccine for adults

Blood clot risks: US limits use of J&J Covid-19 vaccine for adults

-- 2022-05-06 20:17:07

The US health regulator said on Thursday it was limiting the use of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine for adults due to the risk of a rare blood clotting syndrome, the latest setback to the sho...

Nearly 15m deaths associated with COVID-19: WHO

Nearly 15m deaths associated with COVID-19: WHO

-- 2022-05-05 18:51:23

The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double t...

In Bolivia, inmates can cut jail time by reading

In Bolivia, inmates can cut jail time by reading

-- 2022-05-05 18:29:39

Inmates in Bolivia's overcrowded prisons are now able to reduce their jail time by reading books in a new programme influenced by one in Brazil that aims to spread literacy and give hope despite a not...

US Supreme Court may overturn abortion rights

US Supreme Court may overturn abortion rights

-- 2022-05-03 17:37:15

Anti-abortion activists and pro-abortion rights supporters took to the streets of Washington on Tuesday after news that the US Supreme Court may overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that legalised abor...

New Mexico 'megafire' could more than double in size, official says

New Mexico 'megafire' could more than double in size, official says

-- 2022-05-01 14:03:20

A drought-driven wildfire in northern New Mexico exploded into a "megafire" of 100,000 acres, or 157 square miles, on Saturday and could still more than double in size, a fire official said. Fueled b...

US sees no threat of Russia using nuclear weapons despite rhetoric

US sees no threat of Russia using nuclear weapons despite rhetoric

-- 2022-04-30 10:27:10

The United States does not believe that there is a threat of Russia using nuclear weapons despite a recent escalation in Moscow's rhetoric, a senior US defence official said on Friday, Reuters reports...

Moderna plans to build vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada

Moderna plans to build vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada

-- 2022-04-29 21:23:00

Moderna Inc said on Friday it plans to build an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Quebec province as part of the Covid-19 vaccine maker's ten-year partnership with the Government of Canada to bet...

Panama opens door to commercialisation of crypto assets

Panama opens door to commercialisation of crypto assets

-- 2022-04-29 20:27:31

Lawmakers in Panama's National Assembly on Thursday approved a bill to regulate the use and commercialisation of crypto assets in the Central American country renowned as a hub of offshore financial s...

Biden seeks $33 billion for Ukraine, a massive jump in funding

Biden seeks $33 billion for Ukraine, a massive jump in funding

-- 2022-04-29 09:02:53

President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday for $33 billion to support Ukraine - a dramatic escalation of US funding for the war against Russia - as well as new legal tools to siphon assets from Ru...

Biden asks US congress for $33 billion to support Ukraine

Biden asks US congress for $33 billion to support Ukraine

-- 2022-04-28 22:33:57

US President Joe Biden asked US Congress on Thursday for $33 billion to support Ukraine - a dramatic escalation of US funding for the war against Russia - as well as new legal tools to siphon assets f...

US looks for closer ties to Brazil at a time of turmoil and war

US looks for closer ties to Brazil at a time of turmoil and war

-- 2022-04-26 10:45:49

US State Department officials held their first high-level talks with the Brazilian government since 2019 on Monday, reinforcing ties between the Western Hemisphere's two largest democracies despite th...

More children, teenagers killed by guns than any other cause in US: Analysis

More children, teenagers killed by guns than any other cause in US: Analysis

-- 2022-04-23 19:28:58

More children and teenagers in the United States were killed by guns than any other cause in 2020, according to a mortality analysis by researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Guns su...

Organization of American States suspends Russia as permanent observer

Organization of American States suspends Russia as permanent observer

-- 2022-04-22 16:34:12

The Organization of American States (OAS) has suspended Russia as a permanent observer in the inter-governmental institution. The OAS adopted a resolution over Moscow's military actions in Ukraine, r...

Former Honduras president extradited to US

Former Honduras president extradited to US

-- 2022-04-22 13:18:27

The US government on Thursday unveiled charges against former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez of participating in a cocaine-importation conspiracy and related firearms offences, and he was e...

US forgives 40,000 student loans, provides aid to 3.6 million more

US forgives 40,000 student loans, provides aid to 3.6 million more

-- 2022-04-20 11:29:49

The US Department of Education has canceled student loan debt for 40,000 people and offered credits to help another 3.6 million pay off their loans under a plan announced on Tuesday designed to aid lo...

US officials engaged with Israelis, Palestinians over tensions in Jerusalem

US officials engaged with Israelis, Palestinians over tensions in Jerusalem

-- 2022-04-19 13:26:04

A number of US officials engaged in phone calls with Israelis, Palestinians and Arab representatives in the region over the weekend to see to it that tensions in Jerusalem do not escalate, State Depar...

US will no longer enforce mask mandate on aeroplanes, trains after court ruling

US will no longer enforce mask mandate on aeroplanes, trains after court ruling

-- 2022-04-19 10:14:05

The Biden administration will no longer enforce a US mask mandate on public transportation, after a federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful, overturning a...

Twelve injured in South Carolina shopping mall shooting

Twelve injured in South Carolina shopping mall shooting

-- 2022-04-17 09:57:54

Twelve people were injured, 10 of them by gunfire, in a shooting that erupted on Saturday inside a shopping mall in Columbia, South Carolina, and three people were taken into custody, police said. Co...

US arrests 210,000 migrants along Mexico border in March

US arrests 210,000 migrants along Mexico border in March

-- 2022-04-16 21:39:02

US border authorities arrested 210,000 migrants attempting to cross the border with Mexico in March, the highest monthly total in two decades and underscoring challenges in the coming months for US Pr...

Biden, his wife earned more than $600,000 last year

Biden, his wife earned more than $600,000 last year

-- 2022-04-16 16:46:15

President Joe Biden and his wife Jill released their federal tax returns on Friday, showing the couple earned more than $600,000 last year and paid an effective federal income tax rate of 24.6 per cen...

US urges restraint after Jerusalem violence

US urges restraint after Jerusalem violence

-- 2022-04-16 10:32:04

The United States is deeply concerned by violence in Jerusalem, where at least 152 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli riot police, the State Department said on Friday, reports Reuters.&...

Elon Musk calls US officials ‘bastards’ for bringing fraud charges against him

Elon Musk calls US officials ‘bastards’ for bringing fraud charges against him

-- 2022-04-15 20:33:24

Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk on Thursday stepped up criticism of the US securities regulator, calling Securities and Exchange Commission officials "bastards" for bringing fraud charges against him over his...

2 dead, more than 200 homes charred in New Mexico wildfire

2 dead, more than 200 homes charred in New Mexico wildfire

-- 2022-04-15 16:27:36

Firefighters took advantage of a brief break in the weather but gusty winds were expected to return Friday to southern New Mexico where a wildfire has claimed two lives and charred more than 200 homes...

Threat of Russia using nuclear weapons cannot be taken lightly, warns CIA chief

Threat of Russia using nuclear weapons cannot be taken lightly, warns CIA chief

-- 2022-04-15 14:28:41

The threat of Russia potentially using tactical or low-yield nuclear weapons in Ukraine cannot be taken lightly, but the CIA has not seen a lot of practical evidence reinforcing that concern, CIA Dire...