https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/ap-images/2020/07/2e4b3a9a91c4fd2697bc13fd9e800cdf.jpg?imwidth=800A former Harvard University fencing coach and a Maryland businessman have been arrested and charged with conspiring to circumvent the school’s admissions process, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston. Peter Brand, 67, a former Harvard fencing coach who
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Coronavirus was reportedly found on food products and packaging imported to China. The city of Jinan said it found the coronavirus on beef and tripe the packaging and on the meat itself from Brazil, Bolivia and New Zealand, Reuters reported. The
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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–11/AP_20320707750735.jpg?imwidth=800KHARTOUM — As thousands of Ethiopians flee the Tigray conflict into neighboring Sudan, analysts in Khartoum say Sudan could play a key role in the conflict. Sudan is channeling the refugees — estimated to be at least 20,000 —
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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–11/2020–07–03T000000Z_1696977563_RC2SLH9U1RBT_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-WHO-TEDROS.JPG?imwidth=800 Experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) say the news Monday of another COVID-19 vaccine candidate is encouraging but more information is needed and, as new virus cases surge around the world, it is no time to be complacent.
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5fae6cf5240000ac4861fa5b.jpeg?ops=224_126 Colombo, SRI LANKA — On October 4 this year, a 39-year-old woman from the Brandix garment factory in Minuwangoda tested positive for COVID-19. By October 13, Brandix, which makes garments for global brands such as Victoria’s Secret,
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On Monday, Peru’s legislature selected the country’s third president in a week, seeking to stanch growing street protests over lawmakers’ decision to remove a popular president from office last week. But the decision to name Francisco Sagasti, an engineer and academic
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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–11/afp_ethiopia_sudan_refugees_16Nov20.jpg?imwidth=800The border town of Hamdayat, Sudan, is now home to thousands of refugees from Ethiopia’s Tigray region fleeing violence. Among the estimated 8,000 who have arrived in recent days are the parents of seven-month-old twins born prematurely, laying on a
https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/ap-images/2020/02/1252e824b0d9d7fac921068b8a128ff4.jpg?imwidth=800The high-pitched whine of a mosquito is annoying, but scientists have developed an app that uses that sound to detect dangerous mosquitoes. Mosquitoes kill hundreds of thousands of people each year by spreading microbes that cause diseases such as malaria,
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https://liveandletsfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Amani-al-Khatahtbeh-738x355.jpg There are still many questions surrounding the ejection and arrest of a Muslim woman onboard an American Airlines flight, but one fact has emerged: she was harassing the “white man” (as she called him) in first class. At the
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress chose a new leader Monday expected to become the nation’s third president in the span of a week, a hopeful sign that the political crisis is on the verge of resolution. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly
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