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Mumbai cinemas reopen after 18 months as life swings back

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MOVIE theaters in India’s entertainment capital Mumbai reopened on Friday, October 22, 2021, after more than 18 months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the last of the many virus restrictions to go amid a decline in infections.Theaters opened to half capacity, following the guidelines released last month, but ...

Sheriff: Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman

/ from 4 hours ago

SANTA FE, New Mexico — A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is producing and starring in a Western movie, killed his director of photography and injured the director Thursday at the movie set outside Santa Fe, authorities said.Santa Fe County Sheriff’s officials said Halyna Hutchins, director ...

Moscow tightens restrictions as infections, deaths soar

/ from 21 hours ago

MOSCOW -- The authorities in Moscow on Thursday, October 21, announced a plan to shut restaurants and non-food stores and introduce other restrictions later this month as Russia registered the highest daily numbers of new coronavirus infections and deaths since the start of the pandemic.The government coronavirus task force reported ...

India celebrates 1B vaccine doses, hopes to speed 2nd shots

/ from 21 hours ago

INDIA celebrated giving its billionth Covid-19 vaccine dose on Thursday, October 21, 2021, a hopeful milestone for the South Asian country where the delta variant fueled a crushing surge earlier this year and missteps initially held back its inoculation campaign.About half of India's nearly 1.4 billion people have received at ...

Pig-to-human transplants come a step closer with new test

/ from 21 hours ago

SCIENTISTS temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but among the hurdles: A sugar ...

WHO: Europe the only region with rise in Covid-19 last week

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LONDON -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said there was a seven percent rise in new coronavirus cases across Europe last week, the only region in the world where cases increased, and said uneven vaccine uptake posed a threat to the continent.In its weekly assessment of the pandemic, the UN ...

FDA okays mixing Covid vaccines; backs Moderna, J&J boosters

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WASHINGTON -- US regulators on Wednesday signed off on extending Covid-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine and said anyone eligible for an extra dose can get a brand different from the one they received initially.The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decisions mark a ...

Can new variants of the coronavirus keep emerging?

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WASHINGTON -- Can new variants of the coronavirus keep emerging?Yes, as long as the virus that caused the pandemic keeps infecting people. But that doesn’t mean new variants will keep emerging as regularly, or that they’ll be more dangerous.With more than half the world still not vaccinated, the virus will ...

US marks 200M Covid-19 shots shared with world

/ from October 21, 2021

THE U.S. on Thursday, October 21, 2021, donated its 200 millionth Covid-19 shot to help vaccinate the rest of the world, the White House announced. The Biden administration aims to lead a global vaccination campaign even as it rolls out boosters for domestic use, which critics say diverts doses from ...

UN investigator: Gender equality in free speech is far off

/ from October 20, 2021

UNITED NATIONS -- An independent UN investigator warned Monday that despite the Nobel Peace Prize to courageous Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, “gender equality in freedom of expression remains a distant goal.”Irene Khan, the special investigator on the promotion and protection of freedom of opinion and expression, said that “women’s voices ...

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