Category : COVID-19

TOKYO, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Japan was poised on Wednesday to widen COVID-19 curbs to the capital, Tokyo, and a dozen regions covering half the population, as the Omicron variant of coronavirus drives record new infections. Already in effect in three regions, the measures, set to run from Friday until Feb. 13, are expected to […]Read More

Maxar Technologies A key undersea cable that was destroyed in a volcano eruption in Tonga may take at least four weeks to be repaired, said New Zealand’s foreign ministry. The cable was severed during a volcanic eruption on Saturday, crippling communications and cutting the Pacific island off from the outside world. The eruption also caused […]Read More

Emirates Airline Boeing 777-300ER planes are seen at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 15, 2019. REUTERS/Christopher Pike/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Jan 19 (Reuters) – Major international airlines rushed to rejig or cancel flights to the United States ahead of a 5G wireless rollout on […]Read More

NEW YORK — André Leon Talley, the towering former creative director and editor at large of Vogue magazine, has died. He was 73. Talley’s literary agent David Vigliano confirmed Talley’s death to USA Today late Tuesday, but no additional details were immediately available. Talley was an influential fashion journalist who worked at Women’s Wear Daily […]Read More

The announcement by the Hong Kong government on Tuesday was met with outrage by pet owners and animals rights advocates, with several online petitions urging authorities to reconsider. It comes after an emerging cluster linked to the Little Boss pet store, where a 23-year-old employee was confirmed positive for the Delta variant on Monday. A […]Read More

Cases of the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus are soaring throughout the country. But there are still people who haven’t been infected yet. So what omicron variant symptoms could predict an infection? The news: Dr. Allison Arwady, the commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, recently said sore throats predict COVID-19 infection, per […]Read More

UNITED NATIONS — Women seeking to participate in shaping and building peace and defending human rights face a “vastly worse” situation now than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations human rights chief said Tuesday. Michelle Bachelet told the U.N. Security Council that in 2020 her office verified 35 killings of women human […]Read More

An actress jailed for protesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial citizenship law, the mother of a rape survivor, and a beauty pageant winner. These are the women leading India’s once-dominant Congress party as it seeks to reinvent itself in a hotly contested state election. The slew of female candidates in India’s most populous state of […]Read More

If she wins, Kathy Hochul would be the first woman elected governor in New York history. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, with less than six months on the job, turned Tuesday into a tour de force of her political and government prowess. In one day, the moderate Democrat […]Read More

Scientists are potentially one step closer to understanding why some people lose their sense of smell or taste after contracting COVID-19.   A team of researchers have identified a genetic risk factor that increased the odds a person would lose their sense of smell or taste after a COVID-19 infection by 11 percent, according to a study recently published in the journal Nature Genetics.  […]Read More