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Boris Johnson Self-Isolating After Being Exposed To COVID-19

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Min­is­ter Boris John­son is self-iso­lat­ing after being told he came into con­tact with some­one who test­ed pos­i­tive for the coro­n­avirus, offi­cials said Sun­day. “He will car­ry on work­ing from Down­ing Street, including

In Ruins, Syria Marks 50 Years Of Assad Family Rule

BEIRUT (AP) — On Nov. 13, 1970, a young air force offi­cer from the coastal hills of Syr­ia launched a blood­less coup. It was the lat­est in a suc­ces­sion of mil­i­tary takeovers since inde­pen­dence from France in 1946, and

Plastic Masks, PPE, Biomedical Waste Choke Water Bodies In India

On Sep­tem­ber 16, when Sub­hash Chan­dran, a scu­ba div­er, along with four oth­ers, went for their first under­wa­ter clean-up post the lock­down at Rushikon­da beach in Visakha­p­at­nam, they found float­ing in the seabed N‑95, sur­gi­cal and cloth masks and

China Is Winning The Pandemic Economy

As vast tracts of the devel­oped world grap­ple with a sec­ond wave of COVID-19, life in Chi­na is return­ing to nor­mal, and the coun­try is on track to do what vir­tu­al­ly no oth­er coun­try will achieve this year: Grow

I Drove Through Canada With U.S. Licence Plates. It Didn’t Go Well.

A man walk­ing his dog eyed the U.S. plates on our car. “You peo­ple shouldn’t be here,” he sneered. My hus­band, chil­dren and I were in the midst of a social­ly dis­tanced reunion with my father outside

How The First And Second Waves Of Covid-19 In The UK Compare So Far

When Boris John­son took to our screens on Sat­ur­day to tell us that, for the sec­ond time this year, Eng­land was going into lock­down, the sense of déjà vu was crush­ing.  The tac­tics tak­en by the government

Canadians Trust Neighbours To Follow COVID-19 Rules. Americans, Not So Much.

Cana­di­ans are more con­fi­dent and less stressed out than Amer­i­cans when it comes to stop­ping the spread of COVID-19, accord­ing to a new poll. Half of Cana­di­ans said in an Angus Reid sur­vey released Mon­day that they

Judge dismisses Trump libel lawsuit against CNN

Novem­ber 13, 2020 Judge dis­miss­es Trump libel law­suit against CNN  This sto­ry, plus Bus­tle writ­ers union­ize, YouTube defends leav­ing videos with elec­tion mis­in­for­ma­tion avail­able, and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries  Nov 12, 2020 Judge

British Serial Killer Dies After Reportedly Refusing Treatment For COVID-19

British ser­i­al killer Peter Sut­cliffe ― known as the York­shire Rip­per ― has died in hos­pi­tal after test­ing pos­i­tive for Covid-19, it has been con­firmed. Sut­cliffe, who was serv­ing 20 life terms for mur­der­ing 13 women and attempting

China Congratulates Biden On Being Elected U.S. President

BEIJING (AP) — Chi­na on Fri­day became one of the last major coun­tries to con­grat­u­late U.S. Pres­i­­dent-elect Joe Biden, who is expect­ed to make few changes to U.S. pol­i­cy in con­flicts with Bei­jing over trade, tech­nol­o­gy and security.