Marília Mendonça, one of Brazil’s most popular singers and a Latin Grammy winner, died Friday in an airplane crash on her way to a concert. She was 26. Mendonça’s press …
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German Government Calls for COVID-19 Booster Shots for All as Cases Surge
Germany’s health minister, Jens Spahn, called Friday for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for anyone who was fully vaccinated at least six months ago, as the nation faces a fourth wave …
your ads here!UN Recap: October 31-November 5
Editor’s note: Here is a fast take on what the international community has been up to this past week, as seen from the United Nations perch. Leaders talk global warming …
your ads here!Exodus of Foreign Internet Giants Strengthens China’s Homegrown Ecosystem
China now depends almost entirely on its own online content providers, as the number of big foreign companies in the market, such as Yahoo and LinkedIn, keeps dwindling, giving the …
your ads here!Pfizer: COVID-19 Pill Cuts Risk of Severe Disease by 89%
U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced Friday its new COVID-19 pill showed an 89% reduction in risk of COVID-19-related hospitalization or death in clinical trials and they plan to submit the …
your ads here!‘It’s Our Lives on the Line’, Young Marchers Tell UN Climate Talks
Thousands of young campaigners marched through the streets of Glasgow on Friday, chanting their demand that world leaders at the U.N. climate conference safeguard their future against catastrophic climate change. …
your ads here!US Calls on China Not to Limit Journalists’ Freedom at Winter Olympics
The United States on Thursday urged China not to restrict access and movement for journalists reporting on next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China this …
your ads here!South Korea Showed How to Contain COVID, Now It Will Try to Live With It
Seats are once again packed at professional baseball games in South Korea. Just as in pre-pandemic times, fans can drink beer and eat fried chicken. They can clap their hands, …
your ads here!COP26: Britain Hails Global Deals to End Coal but Plans New Mine
The “end of coal” is in sight, according to Britain — the host of the COP26 climate summit — after dozens of countries pledged to stop using coal and end the financing of fossil fuels. But as Henry …
your ads here!Why US Consumers Pay Such High Prices for Prescription Drugs
Congressional Democrats this week proposed an addition to U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate and social spending legislation that would allow Medicare, the federal government’s health care program for older Americans, …
your ads here!French Film Festival Highlights African Water Problem
A documentary about the impact of climate change in Africa is a highlight of the annual French film festival in Los Angeles this year. The festival, “City of Light, City …
your ads here!Manufacturing Moon Ships and NASA Warns of Climate Catastrophe
An Earth-flight giant contributes to NASA’s upcoming moon missions. Plus, words from the next crew to visit the International Space Station and grim news from NASA about the future of …
your ads here!American Nurses: Stop Assaulting Us!
Regularly cursed at and sometimes physically assaulted by patients, nurses in the U.S. have had enough. As VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias reports, the pandemic is accelerating a longstanding problem of …
your ads here!WHO: Europe Now Epicenter of COVID-19 Pandemic
The World Health Organization’s regional director for Europe said Thursday the continent is now the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for 59 percent of all cases globally. At a virtual news briefing from Copenhagen, Hans Kluge said the current pace …
your ads here!Tennis Star Accuses China Ex-Vice Premier of Sexual Assault
Chinese authorities have squelched virtually all online discussion of sexual assault accusations apparently made by a Chinese professional tennis star against a former top government official, showing how sensitive the …
your ads here!What Are The Facebook Papers?
Social media behemoth Facebook is facing public and regulatory scrutiny after the disclosure of thousands of pages of internal documents by a whistleblower who used to work for the company. …
your ads here!New Zealand Researchers Hope to Replace Fossil Fuel Use in Antarctica With Green Hydrogen
A New Zealand research project is looking at ways to produce hydrogen in Antarctica to reduce carbon emissions. A four-month New Zealand project is investigating whether hydrogen could be generated, used and stored at Scott Base, …
your ads here!Indian Muslims Arrested for Celebrating Pakistani Cricket Victory Over India
Indian police have detained or arrested at least a dozen Muslims for allegedly celebrating Pakistan’s cricket match victory October 24 over archrival India in the T20 World Cup. Those arrested include a Muslim teacher in the western state …
your ads here!Cycling Race Traverses Conflict-Stricken Burkina Faso
The Tour du Faso, a 10-day bicycle race through the conflict-stricken West African country of Burkina Faso, began in the southern city of Banfora on October 29. One Burkinabe rider hopes to build on his Summer Olympics performance and …
your ads here!South African Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’
South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday with “The Promise,” a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history. Galgut …
your ads here!How COVID-19 Stole ‘Children’s Joy,’ Sparking a Mental Health Emergency
No in-person school. Isolation from friends. Lost rites of passage like graduation ceremonies. The COVID-19 pandemic upended the lives of many children in the United States. “A lot of children’s …
your ads here!Ecuador Balances Relationship with China, Protection of Marine Reserve
Maintaining the unique environment of the Galápagos Islands and protecting the surrounding marine resources is testing Ecuador. China’s industrial fishing fleet threatens the islands, but China is a key trading partner. Jaime …
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