Pulitzers honor Darnella Frazier for cellphone video of George Floyd murder

Reuters 06/12/2021

NEW YORK — A teenager who recorded the murder of George Floyd in a clear and unrelenting single shot with her cellphone was recognized on Friday by the arbiters of the highest honors in U.S. journalism. The…

Heatstroke or COVID-19? Similar symptoms could confuse at Olympics

Reuters 06/10/2021

TOKYO — Emergency medicine experts warn first responders at the Tokyo Olympics could easily confuse heatstroke and coronavirus patients because the illnesses bear similar symptoms. While Games organizers have moved the marathon and race-walk events to the cooler…

‘Mission: Impossible 7’ set shut down again due to COVID

Reuters 06/06/2021

Filming in Britain on the latest “Mission: Impossible” movie has been shut down for two weeks after some people working on the movie tested positive for the coronavirus, Paramount Pictures said on Thursday. The movie studio did…

Number of babies born in Japan falls to record low

Reuters 06/05/2021

TOKYO — The number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low last year, the health ministry said on Friday, as more couples put off marriage and starting a family amid a global pandemic. The number of…

South Korean designer creates ‘Third Eye’ for ‘smartphone zombies’

Reuters 06/04/2021

SEOUL — A South Korean industrial designer has come up with a satirical solution for “smartphone zombies” who can’t take their eyes away from their screen long enough to stop themselves walking into a wall or other…

China announces three-child policy, in major policy shift

Reuters 06/01/2021

BEIJING — Married Chinese couples may have up to three children, China announced on Monday, in a major shift from the existing limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s…

Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada

Reuters 05/29/2021

TORONTO — The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.…

South Asia crosses 30 million COVID-19 cases as India battles second wave

Reuters 05/28/2021

BENGALURU — Coronavirus infections in the South Asia region surpassed 30 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally of official data, led by India which is struggling with a second COVID-19 wave and a vaccine shortage…

Knicks’ Julius Randle named NBA’s Most Improved Player

Reuters 05/26/2021

New York Knicks forward Julius Randle won the NBA’s Most Improved Player award for 2020-21 Tuesday. Randle received 98 of the 100 first-place votes for the award from a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters, according to…

Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds, UN to launch Gaza aid appeal

Reuters 05/24/2021

JERUSALEM/GAZA — A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas held into a third day on Sunday as mediators spoke to all sides about extending the period of calm after the worst outbreak of fighting in years. Egyptian mediators…

COVID-19 jab can win you a cow

Reuters 05/22/2021

BANGKOK — A district of northern Thailand has launched a raffle campaign for its vaccinated residents to win a live cow per week for the rest of the year, in a bid to boost the local COVID-19…

‘Silence is complicity’: Biden signs COVID hate crimes bill into law

Reuters 05/21/2021

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act that overwhelmingly passed Congress in a rare show of bipartisanship following a spate of high-profile attacks on Asian Americans in the wake of the…

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