Crisis

By Basil Fernando Sri Lanka will celebrate its 73rd independence anniversary on February 4 but for many years now, the day has become one to recount failures and the loss of achievements made during the colonial period. Sri Lanka became…
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By Vivian Wang SHANGHAI - A Chinese court on Monday (28) sentenced a citizen journalist who documented the early days of the coronavirus outbreak to four years in prison, sending a stark warning to those challenging the government’s…
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GENEVA - World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday (27) warned that the COVID-19 pandemic will not be the last such crisis. "History tells us that this won't be the last pandemic and epidemics…
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By Manny Fernandez, Julie Bosman, Amy Harmon, Danielle Ivory and Mitch Smith HOUSTON — The United States is winding up a particularly devastating week, one of the worst since the coronavirus pandemic began nine months ago. On Friday…
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ISLAMABAD - Intensive care units across Pakistan are nearing capacity as a second, deadlier wave of the coronavirus builds momentum and officials struggle to counter public indifference to the pandemic. Several doctors told AFP on…
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By Niraj Chokshi The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday (18) cleared the way for Boeing’s 737 Max to resume flying, 20 months after it was grounded following two fatal crashes blamed on faulty software and a host of company and…
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BRUSSELS - Hungary and Poland blocked approval on Monday (16) of the EU's long-term budget and coronavirus rescue - a 1.8-trillion-euro package - and plunged the bloc into political crisis. Warsaw and Budapest oppose tying EU funding to…
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By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Mitra Taj LIMA- Facing widespread opposition, Peru’s interim president stepped down on Sunday (15), his sixth day on the job, plunging a country already facing an economic tailspin and a devastating pandemic into…
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By Katie Glueck and Thomas Kaplan WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden addressed the nation for the first time as president-elect Saturday (7) night, delivering a message of unity and trying to soothe the extraordinary divisions that defined the…
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By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO - The COVID-19 pandemic has so far claimed 984 lives in Nepal.  As on Tuesday (3), the national tally of the virus-infected was 176,500. These figures are high considering the fact that Nepal’s population is…
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