Archives for July 2022

North Korea on Saturday reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May. … [Read more...] about North Korea claims no new fever cases amid doubts over COVID data

In one of this year's most competitive U.S. Senate races, the biggest moments aren't playing out on the campaign trail. They're unfolding on social media. … [Read more...] about Fetterman harnesses power of social media in Senate campaign

And after nearly a half-year of fighting, with tens of thousands of dead and wounded on both sides, massive disruptions to supplies of energy, food and financial stability, the world is no longer as it was. … [Read more...] about Analysis: A world changed, maybe permanently, by Ukraine war

Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials are warning. … [Read more...] about In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID

Pope Francis crisscrossed Canada this week delivering long overdue apologies to the country's Indigenous groups for the decades of abuses and cultural destruction they suffered at Catholic Church-run residential schools. … [Read more...] about Pope Francis makes a penitential pilgrimage to Canada