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The most luxurious thing in the sky is to stretch out on a fully flat bed and sleep your way through a night flight, arriving refreshed the next morning. It can certainly be pricey, though, with many business class seats running into the thousands of dollars, and first class sometimes into the tens of thousands.
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Armed men stormed a college in northwest Nigeria in the early hours of Friday morning, opened fire and kidnapped an unknown number of students, a police spokesman told CNN. The students were abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Mando, Kaduna. It is the third mass kidnapping from a school in northern Nigeria this
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It’s been one year since millions of students last stepped inside a classroom. One year since schools started shuttering to help get Covid-19 under control. But just as the pandemic has fluctuated across the United States, so have the debates about when and how to bring students back into schools. With vague national guidelines about
Continue ReadingTikTok has been banned in Pakistan for a second time. The popular short-form video app is no longer available on mobile devices in the country after regulators issued an order late Thursday to “immediately” block access to it. Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority said it banned TikTok after a provincial court in Peshawar called for the platform
Continue Reading Matthew McConaughey says he is seriously considering a run for Texas governor. The “True Detective” star, whose home state is Texas, says he is thinking it over and it may be what he wants to do with the next chapter of his life. On a recent episode of Crime Stoppers of Houston’s “The Balanced Voice”
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Washington (CNN) — La próxima ronda de cheques de estímulo comenzará a llegar a las cuentas bancarias de los estadounidenses este fin de semana, dijo el jueves la secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, Jen Psaki. Los pagos serán de hasta US$ 1.400 por persona y se incluyeron en el proyecto de ley de
Continue Reading A keeper at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is recovering after being attacked by a cheetah on Thursday, according to a statement from the zoo given to affiliate WSYX and shared with CNN. Two staff members were walking the 4-year-old cheetah named Isabelle from the cheetah facility in the Heart of Africa section to a
Continue Reading (CNN Business) –– Google Maps implementó algunas actualizaciones inspiradas en redes sociales. El objetivo es fomentar más contenido generado por los usuarios en la aplicación. Este jueves, Google Maps introdujo varias funciones destinadas a que la plataforma sea más interactiva. Entre ellas, una que facilita a los usuarios compartir fotos de los lugares que visitan.
Continue Reading A police officer in Rochester, New York, is on administrative leave and an investigation has been launched after he shot and killed a man who charged at officers while holding at least one knife that he grabbed from inside a homeless shelter, police said. According to police, the man was threatening to harm himself, local
Continue Reading (CNN) — Científicos en Brasil identificaron dos casos en los que personas se infectaron simultáneamente con dos variantes diferentes de covid-19, según un nuevo estudio. En ambos casos se trató de mujeres en sus 30 años que tenían síntomas típicos de gripe leves a moderados y no se enfermaron gravemente ni requirieron hospitalización. En un
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El actor Matthew McConaughey dice que considera seriamente postularse como candidato de gobernador de Texas, su estado natal. La estrella de «True Detective» señala que está evaluando esa posibilidad y que posiblemente será lo que quiere hacer en el próximo capítulo de su vida. Matthew McConaughey se reunió con el elenco de «Dazed
Continue Reading After a recent outbreak of Covid-19 infections at the largest correctional facility in San Diego County, a class-action lawsuit was filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and a community advocacy group against San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, demanding he protect local incarcerated people from further infections. The lawsuit calls for Gore to
Continue ReadingCovid-19 numbers may be on the decline in the United States after a year of collective grief. But with tens of thousands of deaths expected over the next few months, experts are warning Americans not to drop their guard just yet. “I think we are going to get fooled,” Dr. Paul Offit, director of the
Continue Reading (CNN) — México continuará usando la vacuna contra el coronavirus de AstraZeneca, entre otras, informó el jueves por la noche el subsecretario de Salud, Hugo López-Gatell. El anuncio se produjo después de que una mujer de 75 años falleciera en el estado de Hidalgo una hora después de recibir la vacuna Coronavac de Sinovac, y
Continue ReadingExactly one year after the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic and about three months since the first Americans outside of clinical trials got shots, one in 10 people in the US are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on its website that at least
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The light at the end of the tunnel may be the fireworks bursting in air on the Fourth of July. President Joe Biden on Thursday offered Americans the tantalizing hope of a return to an all but forgotten pre-pandemic normalcy within months, escalating the “war footing” on which he has placed the nation to beat
Continue Reading China successfully launched its new-generation Long March 7A rocket early Friday morning on its second attempt, sending an experimental satellite into orbit. The rocket launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, in China’s southern Hainan province. Photos from the scene show crowds gathered with tents at a distance, waiting to witness the liftoff. The rocket
Continue Reading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma, have tested positive for Covid-19, the president’s office said in a statement Monday. The Assads were in “stable condition” and planned to self-isolate for two or three weeks, the statement said. Syria has recorded at least 45,879 positive Covid-19 cases and 2,023 total deaths based on cumulative
Continue Reading A Saudi court has rejected an appeal by prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul that would have allowed her to travel freely, her family and supporters said. The 31-year-old was sentenced in December to five years and eight months in prison on what critics have described as politically motivated charges, but was released in February
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Israel se transformó voluntariamente en campo de pruebas global de Pfizer a cambio de recibir millones de vacunas. Ahora también comenzó a utilizar un pasaporte verde que ha generado un amplio debate internacional. Se trata de un certificado de vacunación que permite acceder a estadios, teatros o piscinas, pero sólo a los
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