Asia Today: Vietnam to test all 9M residents in largest city
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam plans to test all 9 million people in its largest city for the coronavirus and imposed more restrictions Monday to deal with a growing COVID-19… Read more »
Monthly Archives: May 2021
Texas GOP’s new voting restrictions on verge of approval
TEXAS, United States (AP) — Republicans in the Texas Senate muscled one of the most restrictive new voting laws in the U.S. to the cusp of the governor’s desk early… Read more »
Belarus leader seeks Russian support amid showdown with EU
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed his counterpart from Belarus for talks Friday on forging closer ties amid Minsk’s bruising showdown with the European Union over… Read more »
Syria’s Assad wins a fourth term in a predictable landslide
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad was re-elected in a landslide, officials said Thursday, ushering in a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country. Assad’s win was not… Read more »
Real Madrid says Zidane stepping down as team’s coach
MADRID, Spain (AP) — Zinedine Zidane is stepping down as Real Madrid coach, again. The club said Thursday the Frenchman is leaving his job, a few days after a season… Read more »
Moderna says its COVID-19 shot works in kids as young as 12
WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — Moderna aims to be next in line, saying it will submit its teen data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other global regulators… Read more »
Volcanic eruption, ensuing chaos kill at least 15 in Congo
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Torrents of lava poured into villages after dark in eastern Congo with little warning, leaving at least 15 people dead amid the chaos and destroying more… Read more »
China’s Yuan Longping dies; rice research helped feed world
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city… Read more »
Palestinians claim victory as Gaza truce faces early test
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians rallied by the thousands early Friday after a cease-fire took effect in the latest Gaza war, with many viewing it as costly but… Read more »
Israel unleashes strikes as expectations for truce rise
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel unleashed another wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Thursday, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding several, and Hamas fired more… Read more »