November 2020

UN: Skiing may not spread coronavirus but slopes still risky

Published on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:00am

GENEVA (AP) — As several European countries have suspended access to the ski slopes to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said the risk of catching COVID-19 while skiing is likely minimal.

Mexico sets another $11.5 billion in infrastructure projects

Published on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:00am

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico announced another round of 29 private and public infrastructure projects Monday worth about $11.5 billion which are expected to break ground by the end of 2021.

UK not to hold inquiry into Belfast lawyer’s murder in 1989

Published on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:00am

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government said Monday that it has decided against holding a public inquiry into the murder more than three decades ago of a Belfast attorney who specialized in defending Irish Republican Army suspects.

Turkey toughens curfew measures amid coronavirus surge

Published on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:00am

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president on Monday announced the country’s most widespread lockdown so far amid a surge in COVID-19 infections, extending curfews to weeknights and putting a full lockdown in place over the weekends.

Passenger van rams into bus amid fog in Pakistan, killing 13

Published on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:00am

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A speeding van carrying passengers crashed into a bus in foggy weather in eastern Pakistan on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 17 others, a government official and rescuers said.

Trump shoots America

Published on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:00am

When Donald Trump’s liarfor-hire Rudy Giuliani proclaimed recently that his master’s election rejection was due to “a massive fraud,” it wasn’t only black liquid hair dye that leaked out. It was Giuliani’s last remaining droplets of credibility, assuming any still remained after several years of crooked buffoonery in service of a crooked president. President Donald Trump, in insisting that he won an election he overwhelmingly lost, has abandoned any last pretense of caring about the country he leads. And Giuliani, flailing wildly in a fashion that called delirium to mind, matched The Boss grotesquerie for grotesquerie. “I know crimes. I can smell `em,” puffed the reported subject of an FBI investigation. Yet his client’s conduct has provided criminal investigators with one amazing smorgasbord of incriminating evidence to pick over.

The biggest fool to ever hit the big time

Published on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:00am

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First blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s goes on sale

Published on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:00am

A company has started selling the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, a leap for the field that could make it much easier for people to learn whether they have dementia. It also raises concern about the accuracy and impact of such life-altering news.

Uproar over proposed limits on filming police

Published on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:00am
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PARIS (AP) — French activists fear that a proposed new security law will deprive them of a potent weapon against abuse cellphone videos of police activity — threatening their efforts to document possible cases of police brutality, especially in impoverished immigrant neighborhoods.

Iran says Israel killed military nuclear scientist remotely

Published on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:00am
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A top Iranian security official on Monday accused Israel of using “electronic devices” to remotely kill a scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the 2000s.