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White House resists pressure for vaccine passports

Wed, 2021-03-17 20:19 — mike kraft

Vaccine passports pose ethical thicket for Biden administration The White House says the government shouldn't issue the credentials or store the data. Darius Tahir POLITICO

States, airlines and tech companies are pressuring the Biden administration to develop a federal standard for vaccine passports — a policy that could speed the economic recovery but might also discriminate against disadvantaged groups and jeopardize privacy.

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Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced

Tue, 2021-01-19 20:20 — mike kraft

Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced Exclusive: first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles the Guardian

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US readies for first Covid-19 vaccinations as country nears 300,000 deaths

Mon, 2020-12-14 09:12 — mike kraft

US readies for first Covid-19 vaccinations as country nears 300,000 deaths Eleven months after the earliest recorded case of coronavirus in the United States, medical workers are preparing to give the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, with deliveries set to arrive at administration sites from around 8 a.m. ET Monday. Susannah Cullinane, CNN CNN

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A Rush On Coronavirus Testing Strains Laboratories, Drives Supply Shortages

Wed, 2020-11-18 15:04 — mike kraft

With the pandemic out of control in the United States, the nation's precarious coronavirus testing system is starting to strain again.

Long lines are again forming in some places as the surge of infections drives a surge in demand for testing. Testing companies, lab directors and testing policy experts warn that waiting times for results could soon start to lengthen. In fact, one of the largest commercial testing companies Tuesday reported turnaround times had already started creeping up.

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FDA authorizes 1st rapid virus test that gives results at home

Wed, 2020-11-18 09:07 — mike kraft

FDA allows 1st rapid virus test that gives results at home WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Tuesday allowed emergency use of the first rapid coronavirus test that can be performed entirely at home and delivers results in 30 minutes. The... AP NEWS

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Tuesday allowed emergency use of the first rapid coronavirus test that can be performed entirely at home and delivers results in 30 minutes.

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Covid-19 has killed more law enforcement officers this year than all other causes combined

Thu, 2020-09-03 18:04 — mike kraft

Covid-19 has killed more law enforcement officers this year than all other causes combined More police officers have died from Covid-19 this year than have been killed on patrol. Harmeet Kaur, CNN CNN

(CNN)More police officers have died from Covid-19 this year than have been killed on patrol.

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UN Suspends Ebola Screening After 3 Aid Workers Killed in South Sudan

Sun, 2019-11-03 08:45 — Kathy Gilbeaux

IOM offices in South Sudan. Credit: IOM

abcnews.go.com - by Morgan Winsor - October 31, 2019

The United Nations migration agency has halted Ebola screenings at five border crossings in East Africa after three of its aid workers were killed.

The International Organization for Migration said several of its volunteers were caught in the crossfire during clashes between rival groups on Saturday morning in South Sudan's Central Equatoria region. Two men and one woman died, and two male volunteers sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

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The Sahel in Flames

Mon, 2019-06-03 18:36 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Photo: Francesco Bellina/TNH

thenewhumanitarian.org - May 31, 2019

. . . In recent months, a surge in violence in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – three Sahelian countries with shared borders and common problems – has left more than 440,000 people displaced and 5,000 dead, as militants – some with links to al-Qaeda and IS – extend their grip across the region.

As they gain ground, the jihadists are stoking conflicts between different ethnic groups that are accused of either supporting or opposing them, putting the region’s entire social fabric into question. Cycles of inter-communal violence are now claiming more lives and uprooting more people than direct jihadist attacks. Nobody seems able to stop it.

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LIVE Updates: Sri Lanka Bombings

Mon, 2019-04-22 08:21 — Kathy Gilbeaux

cnn.com - April 21, 2019

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What’s happening: The death toll from a wave of bombings across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday increased to 290 on Monday as authorities arrested 24 people in connection with the attacks.

Who carried out the attacks: No group has yet claimed responsibility and the police investigation is ongoing. A government minister described the coordinated bombings as a "brand new type of terrorism," after a decade of relative calm in Sri Lanka.

Warning over other attacks: Late Sunday, authorities disposed of a six-foot pipe bomb near Bandarayanake International Airport in Colombo. On Monday, Sri Lankan authorities found 87 detonators at a private terminal of the Central Bus Stand-in Colombo. Separately, the US State Department is warning that “terrorist groups continue plotting possible attacks in Sri Lanka.”

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'Horror, fear, despair': Venezuela's oil capital shattered by 'tsunami' of violent looting

Wed, 2019-03-27 10:01 — Kathy Gilbeaux

A smashed window is seen in one of the stores inside a shopping mall after looting in Maracaibo. Photograph: Isaac Urrutia/Reuters

theguardian.com - by Tom Phillips - March 26, 2019

. . . Maracaibo’s “madness” began on the night of 10 March – three days after a catastrophic blackout plunged almost the entire nation into darkness. But it had been long in the making thanks to years of economic and political neglect.

The 1.6 million residents of Maracaibo – an oil capital once celebrated as Latin America’s answer to Houston – complained of shortages of water, electricity and fuel and a worsening public transport system even before Venezuela’s crisis began to accelerate in 2016, with the onset of hyperinflation.

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