By Lindsay Isaac and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Austria will implement lockdown measures for all those age 12 and older who are not fully vaccinated against Covid-19 from Monday, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced. Around 65% of Austria’s population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, one of the lower rates in the European Union where cases are surging.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is urging political and economic leaders to show courage and long-range vision, hours after U.N. led-climate talks yielded a compromise on how to combat global warming. Francis in remarks to the public in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday said the cry of the poor, united to the cry of
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un sismo de magnitud 6,5 sacudió el sur de Irán el domingo, según un informe preliminar del Centro Sismológico Europeo-Mediterráneo (EMSC). Posteriormente, el USGS confirmó que se trató de un sismo de magnitud 6,3 y con una profundidad de 10 kilómetros. La misma región sintió otro terremoto poco antes,
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Los números de coronavirus no pintaron bien esta semana. Los nuevos diagnósticos de covid-19 aumentaron en aproximadamente la mitad de los estados de EE.UU. durante la última semana. Las hospitalizaciones se incrementaron en 11 estados y las muertes han aumentado en 17 estados. Los casos de coronavirus en EE.UU. se
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By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — It’s a hidden crisis that’s existed for years inside one of the most well-funded institutions on the planet and has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families. That word comes from Feeding America, which
Continue Reading By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — It’s a hidden crisis that’s existed for years inside one of the most well-funded institutions on the planet and has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families. That word comes from Feeding America, which
Continue ReadingBy John Blake, CNN On a rainy spring morning in Muncie, Indiana, a White, middle-aged, conservative woman met a transgender woman for a date. It did not start well. The transgender woman was waiting at a table when the other woman showed up. She stood up and extended her hand. The other woman refused to
Continue Reading KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says the country has freed 20 Indian fishermen who spent four years in a prison in the port city of Karachi for violating the country’s territorial waters. Prison official Arshad Shah said Sunday that the group left the Karachi central prison and boarded a bus for the eastern
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people to slow the fast spread of the coronavirus in the country. The move prohibits unvaccinated individuals older than age 12 from leaving their homes except for basic activities such as work, grocery shopping, going for a
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s emir has issued a long-awaited amnesty decree, pardoning and reducing the sentences of nearly three dozen Kuwaiti dissidents in a move aimed at defusing a government standoff. The royal decree, published late Saturday in Kuwait’s official gazette, said that Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah had cut
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli rights group says Israel has been using settler violence as a “major informal tool” to drive Palestinians from farming and pasture lands in the occupied West Bank. A report released Sunday by the group B’Tselem details the takeover of roughly 11 square miles of farm and pasture land in the
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has missed out on the Remembrance Sunday service in London to pay tribute to Britain’s war dead after she sprained her back. The service is one of the most important on the 95-year-old monarch’s calendar, and it was widely expected to be her first
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — El gobierno federal anunció un gran aumento en las primas de Medicare el viernes por la noche, culpando a la pandemia pero también a lo que llamó incertidumbre sobre cuánto podría tener que pagar por un nuevo y costoso y controvertido medicamento para el Alzheimer. El aumento del 14,5% en
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN The acclaimed novelist Wilbur Smith has died aged 88, according to a statement from the author’s official website. The cause of his death was not confirmed. “Global bestselling author Wilbur Smith died unexpectedly this afternoon at his Cape Town home after a morning of reading and writing with his wife
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Jasmine Joof said she has been sick with congestion, coughing and headaches for several weeks after discovering the mold growing in her Howard University dorm caused an allergic reaction. The sophomore said she reported the mold issue to a residential adviser in September, but it was never addressed. So in
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s election agency says the son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has announced his candidacy for the country’s presidential election next month. Libya’s election agency said in a statement Sunday that Seif al-Islam submitted his candidacy papers in the southern town of
Continue ReadingRob Hodgetts, CNN Some miss the thrill of it. Some miss breathing in crisp, pure air on a sparkling mountainside. Others yearn for a cold drink on a sun-drenched terrace, or a cozy meal by a roaring fire after a day on the slopes. Whatever draws people to the mountains, winter holidays in Europe have
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Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is decrying society which “hurries past” the poor, judges them and leaves them to their fate. The pontiff on Sunday made the appeal against what he called “growing indifference” to the indigent as he celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica attended by some 2,000
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By AYA BATRAWY and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s biennial Air Show has opened to a world still reeling from the pandemic and an aviation industry hard-hit by the coronavirus – but on the mend. Boeing and Airbus have traditionally been the stars of the aviation trade show that
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