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Officials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse sounded increasingly somber Tuesday about the prospects for finding anyone alive, saying they have detected no new signs of life in the rubble as the death toll climbed to 36. Crews in yellow helmets and blue jumpsuits searched the debris for a 13th day while wind and rain from the outer bands of Hurricane Elsa complicated their efforts. Video released by the Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Department showed work...

The Israeli government says its analysis has shown the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine appears to be less effective against infections caused by the Delta variant compared to other strains of Covid-19. In a brief statement issued on Monday, the government said that as of June 6, the vaccine provided 64% protection against infection. In May – when the Alpha variant dominated in Israel and the Delta strain had not yet spread widely – it found that the shot was 95.3%...

Several athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 upon their arrival in Japan for the Tokyo Olympics set to open on July 23. Two members of the Ugandan team tested positive for the Delta variant of the virus, forcing the entire team and seven town officials and drivers who had close contact with them to self-isolate. An athlete from Serbia also tested positive on Saturday, canceling the team's training in the city of Nanto. The Japanese government confirmed that four o...

QAnon followers believe a second set of Nuremberg-like trials will be held to prosecute those who introduced coronavirus restrictions, on the grounds of "crimes against humanity." Acolytes of the QAnon conspiracy theory latched onto posts about a supposed Nuremberg 2.0 trial that would prosecute officials who introduced coronavirus restrictions, claiming a class-action lawsuit could be brought against them. Posts promoting a Zoom meeting to discuss the apparent secret trial we...

Newly released bodycam footage from the January 6 Capitol attack appears to show rioter Thomas Sibick ripping off and taking an injured police officer's badge and radio. Sibick, 35, of Buffalo, New York, has been indicted on several charges related to the Capitol riots, including assaulting an officer. The Department of Justice released the video to the public Tuesday as part of a lawsuit. Sibick's face is visible in the video as part of a crush of rioters who appear to be attackin...

A massive explosion at a chemical factory on the outskirts of Bangkok early Monday killed at least one person, injured dozens more and damaged scores of homes, while prompting the evacuation of a wide area over fears of poisonous fumes and the possibility of additional denotations. Dense clouds of black smoke continued to billow from the site late in the day. Winds shifted and started blowing toward the city’s center, and evacuation centers were set up in a school and a government of...

Philippine troops found the last five dead from the crash of a transport aircraft in the south and two wounded survivors died Monday, raising the death toll to 52 in the military’s worst air disaster, officials said. The Lockheed C-130 Hercules was carrying 96 people, mostly combat troops, when it overshot the runway while landing Sunday at the Jolo airport in Sulu province, military officials said. It slammed into a coconut grove beyond the airport and burst into flames in a disaste...

Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild Safeguard Defenders 110 Overseas 110 Overseas ：The last decade has witnessed the rapid spread of telecom and online fraud globally, which seriously infringes on people's legitimate rights and interests, becoming a prominent crime and a public hazard. To address this problem, the Chinese police have been committed to intensifying their efforts in the combat against and control of such crimes, and strengthening international law enforcement cooper...

Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild Safeguard Defenders 110 Overseas 110 Overseas ：The last decade has witnessed the rapid spread of telecom and online fraud globally, which seriously infringes on people's legitimate rights and interests, becoming a prominent crime and a public hazard. To address this problem, the Chinese police have been committed to intensifying their efforts in the combat against and control of such crimes, and strengthening international law enforcement cooper...

On a sun-soaked morning last month, a dozen mourners gathered by a freshly dug grave to bury four people who were cast into limbo as New York City contended with COVID-19. Each was among hundreds of people whose bodies have lingered in a temporary morgue that was set up at the height of the city’s coronavirus crisis last year and where about 200 bodies remain, not all of them virus victims. The fenced-off temporary morgue on a pier in an industrial part of Brooklyn is out of sight...

Census taker Linda Rothfield’s government-issued iPhone kept directing her back to apartments in San Francisco that she already knew were vacant. When she did find apartments that were occupied, she was sometimes turned away because of the pandemic. “I had a few landlords who said, ‘It’s COVID. You can’t come in,’” Rothfield said. In a national headcount turned upside down by natural disasters, political turmoil and a deadly virus, apartment ren...

A fire official says four more victims have been found in the rubble of a collapsed condominium building in Florida, bringing the death toll to 32. Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah gave the news to family members during a closed-door morning briefing Tuesday. He said rescuers have also been locating more human remains. Jadallah said there was a two-hour delay early Tuesday as a result of lightning. He said workers have removed 5.5 million pounds of debris from the pile.

Two members of a wedding party in India have been arrested after the groom's 16-year-old cousin was shot dead. Dharmendra Singh died after being struck by a bullet during a wedding function in Khaundali, a town in the Agra district of Uttar Pradesh, in the early hours of Thursday morning, according to the Times of India. The newspaper reported that Singh's family claimed the shooting was intentional, prompting police to arrest two people on murder charges. Police are exa...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Sunday warned of new COVID-19 spikes in areas with low vaccination rates, as the U.S. fell short of President Joe Biden's goal to vaccinate 70 percent of adults with at least one shot by the Fourth of July. Two months ago, Biden set a benchmark to fully vaccinate 160 million adults and ensure 70 percent receive their first shot by Independence Day. The country is still at least weeks ...

The remaining structure of a partially collapsed condominium building in Surfside, Florida, was demolished late Sunday night, just 10 days after the initial disaster and amid a grueling effort to search for more than 120 missing residents. The upright portion of the Champlain Towers South building was intricately filled with detonated charges to bring the building down just after 10:30 p.m. ET on Independence Day. This was after parts of the building first collapsed in the middle of t...

President Joe Biden gave an emphatic address from the South Lawn of the White House on July 4 to commemorate U.S. independence and mark the country's progress in battling the pandemic. The focus of much of Biden's televised address revolved around a push for vaccination against COVID-19 as the president warned that the virus had not yet been "vanquished" and called getting vaccinated "the most patriotic thing" Americans could do. "COVID-19 has ...

An explosion rocked the Caspian Sea on Sunday, with an Azerbaijan oil company stating the cause was due to a "natural burning mud volcano." The blast is reported to have taken place around six miles from the Umid gas field, Ibrahim Ahmadov, a spokesman for the SOCAR state oil company, told Azerbaijani news agency APA, and around 46 miles off the coast of Azerbaijani capital Baku. In a statement published on Facebook, SOCAR confirmed none of its industrial facilities were ...

One person has died and several more are injured after a shooting disrupted a Fourth of July block party in Toledo, Ohio on Sunday. The Toledo Police Department responded to shots fired shortly after 10 p.m. local time near Lawrence Avenue and Detroit Avenue. Several victims were taken from the scene to local area hospitals. Lieutenant Paul Davis confirmed to Newsweek on Monday morning that 11 people were injured during the incident. Davis also said there were multiple shooter...

Florida's plan to use COVID-19 relief funding to provide $1,000 bonuses to nearly 180,000 educators could be at risk, after the Biden administration warned the proposal falls outside of the scope of how the money is supposed to be used. The U.S. Department of Education sent Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran a letter last week advising that the bonuses included in the budget Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law last month appear to fall outside federal g...

Indonesian police threw up roadblocks and more than 400 checkpoints on the islands of Java and Bali to ensure hundreds of millions of people stayed home on Saturday, the first day of stricter curbs on movement to limit the spread of COVID-19. As it battles one of Asia's worst coronavirus outbreaks, the world's fourth-most-populous nation has seen record new infections on eight of the past 12 days, with Friday bringing 25,830 cases and a high of 539 deaths. "We are setting u...

The World Health Organization is calling for urgent action to stem the rapid spread of COVID-19 across Africa, which is being fueled by a surge of more contagious variants of the disease. Latest reports say COVID-19 cases in Africa have been rising by 25% every week for the past six weeks, bringing reported cases there to more than 5.4 million, including 141,000 deaths. WHO regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, warns the rampant spread of the more contagious alpha, beta, and d...

Taliban insurgents have continued to make rapid territorial gains in Afghanistan as the United States said its last remaining troops are expected to withdraw from the conflict-torn country by the end of August. Multiple Afghan sources said Saturday the Taliban had pressured pro-government forces to retreat from at least a dozen districts in northeastern Badakhshan and Takhar border provinces in the past 24 hours. Pro-government forces in many areas are said to be surrendering and abandonin...

The simmering war in Afghanistan, if official accounts are to be accepted, has killed more people last month than in any other month since 2001, when the United States and NATO troops invaded the country. Battlefield violence between pro-Afghan government forces and the Taliban insurgency have particularly surged since May 1, when the last of the U.S.-led international forces formally began exiting the conflict-torn nation under orders from President Joe Biden. The Taliban have overrun ...

It is one of the dining capitals of the world, but Bangkok’s foodie reputation is now hanging by a thread as the coronavirus devastates the city’s restaurant scene - the damage seen in for sale signs on the street and desperate Facebook posts from chefs lamenting closures. Bo.lan, Chu and Soul Food Mahanakorn are city favorites all wiped out by a virus which bit deep into restaurant revenue during the first lockdown in April 2020, but 15 months later has killed off the business...

Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild Safeguard Defenders 110 Overseas 110 Overseas ：The last decade has witnessed the rapid spread of telecom and online fraud globally, which seriously infringes on people's legitimate rights and interests, becoming a prominent crime and a public hazard. To address this problem, the Chinese police have been committed to intensifying their efforts in the combat against and control of such crimes, and strengthening international law enforcement cooper...

Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild Safeguard Defenders 110 Overseas 110 Overseas ：The last decade has witnessed the rapid spread of telecom and online fraud globally, which seriously infringes on people's legitimate rights and interests, becoming a prominent crime and a public hazard. To address this problem, the Chinese police have been committed to intensifying their efforts in the combat against and control of such crimes, and strengthening international law enforcement cooper...

Thousands of people were being evacuated from villages around a rumbling volcano near the Philippine capital Friday, but officials said they faced another dilemma of ensuring emergency shelters will not turn into epicenters of COVID-19 infections. The alert was raised to three on a five-level scale after Taal Volcano blasted a dark gray plume into the sky Thursday. The five-minute steam- and gas-driven explosion was followed by four smaller emissions, but the volcano was generally calm on ...

Two more bodies were found at the site of a collapsed condominium building in the Miami area, raising the death toll to 20, the Associated Press reported. One of those bodies belonged to the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter, the Miami-Dade County mayor said. "It goes without saying that every night since this last Wednesday has been immensely difficult for everybody and particularly the families that have been impacted," said Daniella Levine Cava. "But last...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are now investigating the death of a 13-year-old Michigan boy, Jacob Clynick, who died a few days after receiving his second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Martha Sharan, a public affairs officer for the CDC's COVID-19 vaccine task force, wrote in a statement to Newsweek that, "CDC is aware of a 13-year-old boy in Michigan who died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. This case is currently under inv...

As the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spread in the U.S., a handful of states have been hit harder than most amid fears of a fresh wave of infections over Fourth of July weekend. The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has analysed data collected from 25 U.S. states over four weeks to June 5, and concluded that the states with the highest proportions of the Delta variant—or B.1.617.2—are Missouri at 29.9 percent, Colorado...

The World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday that at least 3,800 metric tons of food had been blocked from reaching the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the Associated Press reported. A bridge over the Tekeze River used to help transport aid into the region was destroyed on Thursday. WFP said in a statement that no flights bringing United Nations or other aid to the region have been allowed by Ethiopia since June 22 and that another bridge was destroyed on Thursday, as well. WFP emer...

United States President Joe Biden is warning people to take precautions while celebrating the July 4 holiday this weekend, voicing concern that "people will die" after attending large gatherings in places where vaccination rates are low. "I am not concerned there's going to be a major outbreak, in other words, that we're gonna have another epidemic nationwide, but I'm concerned lives will be lost," Biden told reporters on Friday. More than 600,0...

Seventeen people, including police, were hurt when a large explosion rocked a Los Angeles neighborhood Wednesday evening as thousands of pounds of illegal fireworks were being seized, officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, police said. The blast happened about 7:30 p.m. local time (10:30 p.m. E.T.) as the bomb squad was detonating some of the explosives in a vehicle with a containment vessel designed to withstand blasts. "This vessel should have be...

With the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus spreading quickly across the globe, countries are racing against time to vaccinate their populations, with plans to reopen after lengthy lockdowns at risk. And while the United States and countries in western Europe are cautiously easing social restrictions, elsewhere nations that once enjoyed relative success containing the spread of the virus are now faltering. On Wednesday, France lifted its&nbs...

The number of Covid-19 cases in the United States rose 10 percent this week as the highly contagious delta variant gained further ground, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The country's lagging vaccination rate coupled with the "hypertransmissible delta variant," first detected in India, could account for the increase, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House briefing. The delta variant is about 60 percent more transmissible ...

Honolulu police officers were justified in their use of deadly force against Lindani Myeni and will face no charges, the city's prosecuting attorney has announced. Myeni, a 29-year-old citizen of South Africa, was shot dead during a struggle with officers after he entered a home in the Nuuanu neighborhood on April 14, prompting a female occupant to call 911. At a news conference on Wednesday, Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm shared the findings of a two-month investigation in...

Two adults and one child were shot to death in an apartment in Houston, on Wednesday night. A 10-year-old girl in the residence survived by playing dead and then calling her grandmother for help. Houston police responded to the shooting near West Houston Airport just after 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, where they discovered a 6-year-old girl, her mother and her father had been shot and killed. The couple had three other children in addition to the 6-year-old: an 8-year-old boy wh...

As the threat of the Delta COVID variant looms ahead of the July 4 celebrations, half of Americans fear the potential onset of a new wave of the virus, according to a poll released Thursday. The new survey of 1,115 adults in the U.S. aged 18 and older, conducted by the Marist Poll in partnership with NPR and PBS NewsHour, said 50 percent of Americans "express concern about the possibility of a new wave of the coronavirus." The poll was conducted by phone from Ju...

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are on their way to Surfside, Florida to meet with local officials and families of the victims of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse. Biden has a packed schedule for the trip. He will first have a briefing with Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, other local leaders and first responders. Then he will thank the first responders and search-and-rescue teams, meet with families of the victims and missi...

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are on their way to Surfside, Florida to meet with local officials and families of the victims of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse. Biden has a packed schedule for the trip. He will first have a briefing with Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, other local leaders and first responders. Then he will thank the first responders and search-and-rescue teams, meet with families of the victims and missi...

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City’s subway overpass-stretch, which left 26 dead after it collapsed last month, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Lopez Obrador said during his daily press briefing on Wednesday that he met with Slim, and that the billionaire assured the President that his construction firm “will pay for everything” needed for the reconstruction of Mexico City’s ...

he Delta variant of the coronavirus is worrying officials around the world. Four major Australian cities went into a four-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown this week to try and stop it from spreading. Australia’s Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, announced looser vaccination policies to try to get more people immunized before the variant could spread. Ireland delayed plans to resume indoor service in bars and restaurants and US officials urged Americans to get vaccinated to stop ...

When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is presiding over a protracted civil war that by many accounts bears the hallmarks of genocide. In November 2020, Abiy ordered a military offensive in the northern Tigray region and promised that the conflict would be resolved quickly. One year on, the fighting has left thousands dead, displaced more than 2 million peo...

Despite a desperate need for Covid-19 vaccines, Brazil is suspending a deal to purchase 20 million doses of the Indian-made Covaxin vaccines, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday, after questions were raised about a pricing increase. The ministry said the decision was made on the recommendation of the Comptroller General of Brazil (CGU). “According to the preliminary analysis of the CGU, there are no irregularities in the contract, but, due to compl...

Oxygen prices in Indonesia’s capital had more than doubled and some suppliers reported shortages on Tuesday after a surge in Covid-19 cases that prompted the Red Cross to warn of a coronavirus “catastrophe” in Southeast Asia’s biggest country. Indonesia has announced record daily Covid-19 infections of more than 20,000 in recent days, in a new wave fueled by the emergence of highly transmissible virus variants and increased mobility after the Muslim fastin...

Kim Jong Un fired several senior officials who failed to enforce North Korea’s stringent Covid-19 prevention, a dereliction of duty which the young dictator said will have “grave consequences” for the impoverished and isolated nation, state media reported Wednesday. It is unclear who or exactly how many officials were responsible for the unspecified incident, which Kim called a “great crisis.” But it appears some members of the upper echelons of the ...

There are additional restrictions in place for some south-east LGA’s including changes to face mask rules and visiting aged care facilities. There are also new mask rules for anyone across the state attending a stadium event. From Sunday 3 October, the Richmond Valley LGA will be part of the restricted border zone, joining the Kyogle LGA. And the Walgett Shire will no longer be part of the restricted border zone. From Wednesday 29 September, the Tweed shire and Byron shire LGAs...

Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild Safeguard Defenders 110 Overseas 110 Overseas ：The last decade has witnessed the rapid spread of telecom and online fraud globally, which seriously infringes on people's legitimate rights and interests, becoming a prominent crime and a public hazard. To address this problem, the Chinese police have been committed to intensifying their efforts in the combat against and control of such crimes, and strengthening international law enforcement cooper...

Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild Safeguard Defenders 110 Overseas 110 Overseas ：The last decade has witnessed the rapid spread of telecom and online fraud globally, which seriously infringes on people's legitimate rights and interests, becoming a prominent crime and a public hazard. To address this problem, the Chinese police have been committed to intensifying their efforts in the combat against and control of such crimes, and strengthening international law enforcement cooper...

Just 5,000 Australians in disability care – fewer than one in five people – have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 more than four months into the rollout, new data shows. The disability care industry has also warned some providers are again being forced to source their own vaccinations, rather than wait for commonwealth in-reach teams to turn up. The federal government placed disability care residents in the highest priority cohort for its vaccine program, but...