Stop ‘Fussing and Whining’ Over COVID Response, Says Brazil President
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center has recorded more than 116 million global coronavirus cases. The U.S. is on the verge ...
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International Women’s Day Marks Year of Increased Hardships for Women Worldwide
For more than a century, International Women’s Day has celebrated women’s achievements across the globe, overcoming ...
COVID Plunging Many Kenyans Deeper into Poverty
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya, thousands of families are struggling with deepening poverty and unemployment. A ...
NASA’s New Mars Rover Hits Dusty Red Road, 1st Trip 6.6 Meters
NASA’s newest Mars rover hit the dusty red road this week, putting 6.5 meters on the odometer in its first test drive.The ...
Effort to Curb Ebola in Guinea, DR Congo Gathering Steam
The World Health Organization says it is using every measure it has to curb the spread of parallel Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and ...
White House COVID Team: Take Any Vaccine You Can Get
The White House COVID-19 response team said Friday that all coronavirus vaccines currently available were safe and effective and ...
Rwanda Begins COVID-19 Vaccinations
The east-central African nation of Rwanda began its COVID-19 vaccination program Friday, using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, ...
US, Japanese Astronauts Take Spacewalk to Complete ISS Repairs, Upgrades
A U.S. and a Japanese astronaut ventured out of the International Space Station (ISS) Friday, in the second of two spacewalks ...
WHO Cancels Interim Report on China COVID Investigation
A Wall Street Journal report says World Health Organization investigators who recently visited China to determine the origins of ...
COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Grows as Side Effect Worries Fade
Confidence in COVID-19 vaccines is growing, with people’s willingness to have the shots increasing as they are rolled out ...
SpaceX Takes Flight With and Without Success
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station this week built the bones for much-needed power upgrades. Also, SpaceX took ...
Kenyan Women’s Rights Groups Hail Lifting of US Abortion Funding ‘Gag Rule’
Women’s rights activists in Kenya have welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden’s order revoking the ban blocking U.S. funding ...
WHO Reports Rise of New COVID-19 Cases in Europe
The World Health Organization’s Europe director reported Thursday that new COVID-19 cases rose 9% to just over a million in the ...
Africa Making Important Inroads on Vaccine Coverage, WHO Says
The World Health Organization says COVID-19 vaccine distribution in African countries is accelerating and hopeful signs are ...
Countries Roll Out Chinese-Made COVID Vaccines
Nearly 50 countries have either received or ordered at least one of the three Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines, according to ...
Ending Mask Mandates Reflects ‘Neanderthal Thinking,’ Biden Says
U.S. President Joe Biden, while expressing frustration, has limited power to overrule decisions by state governors who are ending ...
US Health Official: ‘Now is Not the Time’ to End COVID-19 Restrictions
The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday “now is not the time” to lift COVID-19 ...
COVID-19 Exposes Hearing Problems
The World Health Organization says one in 10 people worldwide is expected to suffer from hearing loss by 2050. But in the United ...
Variant First Detected in Brazil Could Reinfect People Recovering from COVID-19
Scientists are warning that a variant of the novel coronavirus that was first detected in Brazil could reinfect people already ...
WHO Says 1.5 Billion People Suffer Hearing Loss Globally
To mark World Hearing Day, the World Health Organization is calling for action to stem the epidemic of hearing loss, which ...
Japan Billionaire Offers Space Seats to Moon
It’s the sort of chance that comes along just once in a blue Moon: a Japanese billionaire is throwing open a private lunar ...
Biden: Enough Vaccine for Every Adult American by End of May
Merck will help its pharmaceutical competitor Johnson & Johnson make the single-shot coronavirus vaccine. That was announced ...
Texas Becomes Biggest US State to Lift COVID-19 Mask Mandate
Texas is lifting its mask mandate, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday, making it the largest state to no longer require one of the ...
US Drug Maker Merck to Help Produce Rival’s COVID Vaccine
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Merck has agreed to help manufacture rival Johnson & Johnson’s new coronavirus vaccine to help ...