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'So much joy': Brazil holds first carnival since Covid
AFP, Published on 23/04/2022
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio de Janeiro's carnival, a glittering, sequin-studded festival of the flesh, exploded back to life Friday with the first famed samba school parades since Covid-19 hit Brazil.
Japan's rowdiest baseball fans desperate to end pandemic silence
AFP, Published on 21/04/2022
» OSAKA (JAPAN) - In a country of baseball fanatics, Hanshin Tigers supporters are known as Japan's rowdiest -- so they are aching to cut loose as a pandemic ban on cheering drags into a third season.
Cheers and jeers in US as plane mask mandates are lifted
AFP, Published on 20/04/2022
» NEW YORK - Airlines, subways and bus services across the United States moved quickly Tuesday to remove mask requirements following a federal court ruling that struck down face-covering mandates on public transportation, a hot-button issue throughout the pandemic.
Russian FM hails China as part of emerging 'just world order'
AFP, Published on 30/03/2022
» Beijing and Moscow advanced a vision of a new world order Wednesday as Russia's foreign minister made his first visit to key ally China since the invasion of Ukraine.
'Perfect storm': Europe Covid rise due to fewer curbs, subvariant
AFP, Published on 22/03/2022
» PARIS: Covid-19 is again surging in Western Europe due to a "perfect storm" of governments lifting restrictions, waning immunity and the more contagious BA.2 Omicron subvariant, experts said Monday.
'I lost my youth': Women jailed for miscarriages in El Salvador
AFP, Published on 25/02/2022
» SAN SALVADOR - Kenia was 17 when, she says, she had a miscarriage after a fall and was sent to jail on suspicion of having had an abortion in El Salvador.
Torrential rain kills 44 in Brazil tourist town
AFP, Published on 16/02/2022
» PETRóPOLIS (BRAZIL) - At least 44 people were killed in devastating flash floods and landslides that hit the picturesque Brazilian city of Petropolis, turning streets into torrential rivers and sweeping away houses, officials said Wednesday.
New York latest to roll back mask mandates as US eyes normalization
AFP, Published on 10/02/2022
» NEW YORK - New York on Wednesday joined a wave of Democrat-run US states to roll back mask mandates, as health officials increasingly talk about America moving towards a phase where Covid-19 doesn't disrupt daily lives.
New Zealand win historic Olympic gold but wind delays downhill
AFP, Published on 06/02/2022
» BEIJING - "Super-proud" snowboarder Zoi Sadowski Synnott made history for New Zealand after winning their first ever Winter Olympics gold medal on Sunday but bad weather played havoc with the eagerly anticipated men's downhill skiing.
WHO sees pause, even end of pandemic for Europe
AFP, Published on 03/02/2022
» COPENHAGEN: The World Health Organization on Thursday offered Europe hope of a "long period of tranquility" and even "enduring peace" in the war on coronavirus, with a growing list of nations lifting almost all Covid curbs.