World

Some COVID-infected medics to keep working

Published on Wed, 01/05/2022 - 12:00am

LE PECQ, France (AP) — France is allowing health care workers who are infected with the coronavirus but have few or no symptoms to keep treating patients rather than self-isolate, an extraordinary stopgap measure aimed at easing staff shortages at hospitals and other facilities caused by an unprecedented explosion in cases.

In locked down Chinese city, some complain food hard to get

Published on Tue, 01/04/2022 - 8:26am
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By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — Residents of the Chinese city of Xi’an are enduring a strict coronavirus  lockdown, with business owners suffering yet more closures and some people complaining of difficulties finding food, despite assurances from authorities that they are able to provide necessities for the 13 million people largely confined to their homes.

Prince Andrew effort to toss sex assault suit hits roadblock

Published on Tue, 01/04/2022 - 12:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge was mostly dismissive Tuesday of oral arguments by a lawyer for Prince Andrew who wants to win fast dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that the prince two decades ago sexually assaulted a 17-year-old American who was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.

US arrests, charges suspect in Haitian president slaying

Published on Tue, 01/04/2022 - 12:00am

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. government announced Tuesday that it arrested one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse and charged him with conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States.

‘A moral giant’: South Africans pay their respects to Tutu

Published on Fri, 12/31/2021 - 12:00am
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans from all corners of retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s “rainbow nation” filed past his plain pine casket by the hundreds on Friday to pay their respects to his life of activism for equality for all races, creeds and sexual orientations.

Israel approves fourth vaccine dose

Published on Thu, 12/30/2021 - 12:00am

TEL AVIV (AP) — Israel has approved a fourth vaccine dose for people most vulnerable to COVID-19, an official said Thursday, becoming one of the first countries to do so as it braces for a wave of infections fueled by the omicron variant.

Asia keeps omicron at bay, but a surge may be inevitable

Published on Wed, 12/29/2021 - 12:00am
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Much of Asia has largely managed to keep omicron at bay even as the variant rages in other parts of the world, but the region that is home to most of the globe’s population is bracing for what may be an inevitable surge.

Russian court shuts down rights group

Published on Tue, 12/28/2021 - 12:00am
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s highest court on Tuesday shut down one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights organizations, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on rights activists, independent media and opposition supporters.

Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s foe of apartheid, dies at 90

Published on Mon, 12/27/2021 - 12:00am
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modernday activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country’s moral conscience.

Last monument for Tiananmen massacre removed

Published on Thu, 12/23/2021 - 12:00am
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HONG KONG (AP) — A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the bestknown public remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil was removed early Thursday, wiping out the city’s last place of public commemoration of the bloody 1989 crackdown.