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Trump receives Morocco’s highest award for Middle East work: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday received Morocco’s highest award for his work in advancing a normalization deal between Israel and Morocco, a senior administration official told Reuters. In a private Oval Office ceremony, Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui, who is Morocco’s ambassador to the United States, gave Trump the Order of Muhammad, (More…)
Guatemala detains hundreds of migrants at border as U.S.-bound caravan grows
By Gustavo Palencia and Sofia Menchu TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The Guatemalan military has detained hundreds of migrants at its border as thousands of Hondurans, including many families with young children, continued to walk north on Friday as part of a caravan hoping to reach the United States. The Guatemalan military detained 600 migrants at the (More…)
31.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed, 12.3 million administered: U.S. CDC
(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered 12,279,180 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 31,161,075 doses. The tally of vaccine doses are for both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Friday, the agency said. According to the (More…)
U.S. troops in Afghanistan now down to 2,500, lowest since 2001: Pentagon
Posted January 15, 2021
By Idrees Ali
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of U.S troops in Afghanistan has been reduced to 2,500, the lowest level of American forces there since 2001, the Pentagon said on Friday.
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Guatemalan families mourn death of children as hunger spreads
Posted January 15, 2021
By Sofia Menchu
LA PALMILLA, Guatemala (Reuters) – Two-year-old Yesmin Anayeli Perez died this week of illnesses linked to malnutrition, the third small child to die from similar causes in an impoverished (More...)
For Los Angeles-area ambulance crews, the COVID-19 calls never stop
Posted January 15, 2021
By Norma Galeana and Alan Devall
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. (Reuters) – For Southern California ambulance crews, the shifts feel never-ending and the calls to pick up COVID-19 patients seem endless.
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