UK COVID-19 variant has significantly higher death rate, study finds
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) – A highly infectious variant of COVID-19 that has spread around the world since it (More…)
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Officials in Japan warn of potential earthquake, that could be worse than Fukushima, is overdue
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Children lose parents as thousands flee after Equatorial Guinea blast
By Aaron Ross
(Reuters) – Hospitals have run out of morgue space and are piling bodies into refrigerated shipping containers. (More…)
Mexico leans on China after Biden rules out vaccines sharing in short term
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is turning to China to fill a vaccine shortfall with an order for 22 million (More…)
Palestinian hospitals fill up as Israel loosens COVID-19 restrictions
By Zainah El-Haroun
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian hospitals are overfull and intensive-care units operating at 100% capacity with (More…)
Color-coded passage: Why smugglers are tagging U.S.-bound migrants with wristbands
y Adrees Latif, Laura Gottesdiener and Mica Rosenberg
PENITAS, Texas (Reuters) – Along the banks of the Rio Grande in (More…)
French coronavirus patients in intensive care highest since end November
PARIS (Reuters) – The number of people in intensive care in France who have COVID-19 is at the highest level (More…)
Second Myanmar official dies after arrest, junta steps up media crackdown
(Reuters) – An official from deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) died in custody (More…)
‘We are at war:’ Poles mark Women’s Day after abortion rules tightened
By Alicja Ptak and Joanna Plucinska
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poles took to the streets on Monday to mark International Women’s (More…)
French COVID-19 ICU figures at a more than 14-week high
PARIS (Reuters) – The number of people treated in French intensive care units (ICUs) for COVID-19 reached a 14-1/2-week-high on (More…)
Two-thirds of tropical rainforest destroyed or degraded globally, NGO says
By Jake Spring
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, (More…)
