A relentless winter storm left millions of Americans in peril and misery on Sunday as heavy snow and frigid cold hit parts of the eastern United States, driving weather-related deaths to at least 26. brought… Read More »Savage US blizzard leaves 26 dead, power outages, travel snarls
Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleash a new coronavirus variant into the world? Scientists don’t know, but they worry that it might happen. It is possible that it resembles a subspecies of Omicron currently… Read More »China’s COVID-19 surge raises odds of new coronavirus mutant
Kabul, Afghanistan (AP) — On Saturday, the Taliban government suspended all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups in Afghanistan from hiring women after some female employees were not wearing their Islamic headscarves correctly. ordered to stop.The… Read More »Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs
BAZHOU, China (AP) — Yaoyang was frantically pacing outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had her COVID and she… Read More »Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese towns