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Bolivia's Uru Uru lake appears to be made of plastic

Bolivia's Uru Uru lake appears to be made of plastic

REUTERS 2021-04-09 11:28:58

Bolivia’s Uru Uru lake is more plastic than water, with discarded bottles, containers, toys and tires stretching out towards the horizon, a dystopian image reflecting years of human pollution an...

US to restore more than $200m in aid to Palestinians

US to restore more than $200m in aid to Palestinians

-- 2021-04-08 10:57:39

The Biden administration plans to provide at least $235 million in US aid to the Palestinians, restarting funding for the United Nations agency supporting refugees and restoring other assistance cut o...

Trump adviser Giuliani asks judge to throw out $1.3b lawsuit over 'big lie' election claims

Trump adviser Giuliani asks judge to throw out $1.3b lawsuit over 'big lie' election claims

-- 2021-04-08 10:47:52

Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a judge on Wednesday to throw out a voting machine company’s $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit relating to his false claims about th...

California's Carlsbad Flower Fields welcome visitors

California's Carlsbad Flower Fields welcome visitors

-- 2021-04-07 11:45:33

People took pictures amid waist-high blossoms in every imaginable hue of orange, pink, yellow and purple at California’s famous Flower Fields in Carlsbad as it opened to the public. The attract...

India’s ‘double mutant’ Covid-19 variant detected in US

India’s ‘double mutant’ Covid-19 variant detected in US

Hindustan Times 2021-04-06 18:41:31

The “double mutant” variant of the coronavirus behind the ongoing surge in Covid-19 cases in India has now been detected in the US. The first confirmed infection was reported on Monday. I...

US Supreme Court brings end to Trump Twitter battle

US Supreme Court brings end to Trump Twitter battle

Reuters 2021-04-06 09:59:36

The US Supreme Court on Monday brought an end to a legal fight over former President Donald Trump’s effort to block critics from following his now-frozen Twitter account, deciding the dispute wa...

US shuts once-secretive ‘Camp 7’ at Guantanamo Bay

US shuts once-secretive ‘Camp 7’ at Guantanamo Bay

-- 2021-04-05 19:30:59

The US military has shut down the once-secretive “Camp 7” at its notorious terror suspect detention facility Guantanamo Bay, moving some of its most high-profile prisoners to the main part...

US removes AstraZeneca from plant that scuppered Covid vaccine

US removes AstraZeneca from plant that scuppered Covid vaccine

REUTERS 2021-04-04 14:10:56

The United States has put Johnson and Johnson in charge of a plant that ruined 15 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine and has stopped British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc from using the facility, a sen...

Argentine president Alberto Fernandez tests positive for coronavirus

Argentine president Alberto Fernandez tests positive for coronavirus

Reuters 2021-04-03 11:02:19

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez has tested positive for the new coronavirus, is waiting for the result to be confirmed and is in good spirits despite having a light fever, the first-term Peronis...

Vehicle attack on US Capitol leaves one police officer dead

Vehicle attack on US Capitol leaves one police officer dead

-- 2021-04-03 08:37:42

A motorist rammed a car into US Capitol police on Friday and brandished a knife, killing one officer and injuring another and forcing the Capitol complex to lock down in an attack that police said did...

US may not need AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Fauci says

US may not need AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Fauci says

-- 2021-04-02 16:06:45

The United States may not need AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, even if it wins US regulatory approval, Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease doctor told Reuters on Thursday....

Covid-19 surge could be worse than the last for the Americas

Covid-19 surge could be worse than the last for the Americas

-- 2021-04-01 09:09:16

Countries in the Americas could see a worse surge in coronavirus cases than the previous surge last year, with Brazil, Uruguay and Cuba already suffering more, the Pan American Health Organization (PA...

Trump must face 'Apprentice' contestant's defamation suit, NY court rules

Trump must face 'Apprentice' contestant's defamation suit, NY court rules

-- 2021-03-31 12:55:36

New York state’s highest court on Tuesday cleared the way for a former contestant on “The Apprentice” to sue Donald Trump for defamation, after the former US president called her a l...

First lady Jill Biden gets biographical comic book

First lady Jill Biden gets biographical comic book

-- 2021-03-31 12:00:43

US first lady Jill Biden is getting her own biographical comic book, joining women like Vice President Kamala Harris, nun Mother Theresa and country star Dolly Parton in TidalWave Comics’ &ldquo...

Democracy is slipping away, Haitians fear

Democracy is slipping away, Haitians fear

-- 2021-03-31 11:51:14

Haiti emerged from the brutal and dynastic Duvalier dictatorship to democracy 35 years ago. Now, many Haitians fear a return to autocracy as President Jovenel Moise has been steadily amassing power....

Migrant caravan of hundreds from Honduras departs for US

Migrant caravan of hundreds from Honduras departs for US

-- 2021-03-31 11:01:28

Honduran police on Tuesday turned back a US-bound caravan of hundreds of migrants for lacking proper identification papers and proof of negative coronavirus tests, helping the US government contain pr...

Universal Studios Hollywood to reopen to limited number of visitors on April 16

Universal Studios Hollywood to reopen to limited number of visitors on April 16

-- 2021-03-31 08:34:16

Comcast’s Corp’s Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in California will reopen to a limited number of visitors on April 16, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Most rides will...

Canada to halt AstraZeneca vaccine use for people under 55

Canada to halt AstraZeneca vaccine use for people under 55

Reuters 2021-03-30 14:03:23

Canadian health officials said on Monday (local time) they would stop offering AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to people under age 55 and require a new analysis of the shot’s benefits and r...

US suspends all trade engagement with Myanmar

US suspends all trade engagement with Myanmar

-- 2021-03-29 22:03:15

The United States is suspending all engagement with Myanmar under a 2013 trade and investment agreement until the return of a democratically elected government, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai s...

Barack Obama's step-grandmother dies in Kenya

Barack Obama's step-grandmother dies in Kenya

-- 2021-03-29 18:52:27

Former US president Barack Obama's step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, has died at a hospital in Kenya at the age of 99. Affectionately called Granny Sarah by the former president, Mrs Obama defended her...

Secretary Blinken says aspects of US-China ties are 'increasingly adversarial'

Secretary Blinken says aspects of US-China ties are 'increasingly adversarial'

Reuters 2021-03-29 09:23:04

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday he sees “increasingly adversarial” aspects to the United States’ relationship with China. “There are clearly increasingly a...

Facebook freezes page of Venezuela's Maduro over Covid-19 misinformation

Facebook freezes page of Venezuela's Maduro over Covid-19 misinformation

Reuters 2021-03-28 11:01:18

Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about Covid-19 by promoting a remedy he claims, without evidence, can cure...

US voting tech company sues Fox News for $1.6b over election-fraud claims

US voting tech company sues Fox News for $1.6b over election-fraud claims

-- 2021-03-27 11:47:59

Dominion Voting Systems Corp said it filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, accusing it of trying to boost its ratings by falsely claiming the company rigged the 2020 US p...

US novelist Larry McMurtry, who wrote 'Lonesome Dove,' dead at 84

US novelist Larry McMurtry, who wrote 'Lonesome Dove,' dead at 84

-- 2021-03-27 10:35:51

Larry McMurtry, who wrote of complex relationships in novels such as “The Last Picture Show” and “Terms of Endearment,” and then helped redefine the American Old West with the...

Anti-Asian hate in US rising, parents grapple over whether to talk to their children

Anti-Asian hate in US rising, parents grapple over whether to talk to their children

Reuters 2021-03-27 10:22:19

After eight people were killed in last week’s shootings at three Atlanta-area spas, including six women of Asian descent, Stefany Stuber sat down to talk to her seven-year-old daughter, Olivia....

US accuses China of 'state-led' social media campaign

US accuses China of 'state-led' social media campaign

Reuters 2021-03-27 10:02:11

The United States on Friday condemned what it called a “state-led” social media campaign in China against US and other international companies for deciding not to use cotton from China&rsq...

US transport chief not endorsing banning gas-vehicles after 2035

US transport chief not endorsing banning gas-vehicles after 2035

Reuters 2021-03-26 11:51:10

US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Thursday he was unaware of any support by the Biden administration to ban gas-powered vehicles after 2035 as California aims to do. Asked by a lawma...

Why more migrant children arriving at the US-Mexico border

Why more migrant children arriving at the US-Mexico border

-- 2021-03-26 11:41:12

US President Joe Biden will likely face questions during his first presidential news conference on Thursday about his handling of a rising number of unaccompanied children arriving at the US-Mexico bo...

Big Tech CEOs told 'time for self-regulation is over'

Big Tech CEOs told 'time for self-regulation is over'

-- 2021-03-26 11:14:06

In their first appearance before Congress since Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, the chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter were asked by US lawmakers whether their platforms bore so...

US Supreme Court widens ability to sue police for excessive force

US Supreme Court widens ability to sue police for excessive force

Reuters 2021-03-26 11:10:01

The US Supreme Court on Thursday expanded the ability of people to sue police for excessive force, ruling in favor of a New Mexico woman who filed a civil rights lawsuit after being shot by officers s...