Waste from lifesaving personal protective equipment (PPE) is killing birds, fish and other wildlife across the globe, a study has found.Animals are fatally ingesting or becoming entangled in discarded latex gloves and disposable face masks, while others have started building…
A piece of celestial good luck likely made it easier for engineers to successfully refloat the giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week.Sunday's so-called full "Worm moon" led to a high spring tide -- about…
Much of America's recent progress against Covid-19 is being erased as infections, deaths and hospitalizations multiply nationwide.On Monday US President Joe Biden implored state and local officials to reinstate mask mandates, after Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease…
Global leaders have called for a new treaty to help the world prepare for future pandemics, in a warning against rising vaccine nationalism.More than 20 national leaders, including France's Emmanuel Macron, Britain's Boris Johnson and Germany's Angela Merkel, wrote a…
Hundreds of wildfires are burning across Nepal, sending smoke and ash across its cities during one of the worst fire seasons in recent years.Nepal's dry season, which runs from late fall to early summer, typically peaks with the most severe…
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Thailand has reportedly pushed back more than 2,000 people attempting to flee neighboring Myanmar following a series of air strikes carried out by the ruling junta in the southeast of the country.Activist group the Karen Information Center said 2,009 people…
China's government has passed a new law that will drastically restrict the right of Hong Kongers to stand for election and reshape the city's parliament, further entrenching Beijing's power over the supposedly semi-autonomous territory.In a unanimous and unsurprising decision Tuesday,…
For the first time in 40 years, Wessam Hafez, a senior pilot at the Suez Canal, is not going to work. Traffic outside the canal that runs outside his house has stopped."No ships, no pilots," he told CNN. "When the…
No longer working under the Trump administration, leading US health officials have revealed to CNN the challenges they faced during the nation's fight against Covid-19 over the past year, including tension behind closed doors and a lack of preparedness. Here…
When astronaut Scott Kelly spent nearly a year in space, his heart shrank despite the fact that he worked out six days a week over his 340-day stay, according to a new study.Surprisingly, researchers observed the same change in Benoît…
The wildlife trade in China is the most likely pathway through which Covid-19 was able to spread from the original animal source, possibly bats, to humans, according to one of the authors of a long-awaited World Health Organization report on…
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Myanmar's military junta chief Min Aung Hlaing threw a lavish dinner party Saturday while his troops reportedly shot dead more than 100 people in the streets and forced thousands of people to flee into neighboring Thailand, during a weekend of…
Millions of people in the Philippines won't be celebrating Easter as normal this year after the majority Catholic country imposed a strict lockdown in the capital and nearby provinces.Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced the lockdown Saturday after the country reported…
On Palm Sunday, Christians throughout the world celebrate the day Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem days before his crucifixion.Crowds left palm fronds and clothing in his path as a sign of praise and respect.But millions of American Christians will observe Palm…
Fourteen people were hospitalized with injuries following a suspected suicide bombing outside a church in Makassar City, Indonesia, on Sunday, police said.The two suspected bombers both died, according to Indonesian police, and so far no other deaths have been reported.…
See the "Worm" supermoon glow in the March sky this Sunday.The moon will be fullest at 2:48 p.m. ET on Sunday afternoon, according to NASA.This will be the year's first supermoon, meaning the moon is slightly closer to Earth and…
Two top UN officials condemned Myanmar's military junta in the wake of the bloodiest day of protests yet against the military coup that overthrew the country's elected government, as defiant protesters turned out once more Sunday.At least 114 people were…
Reva-Lou Reva is worried. For the first time he can remember, he says hospitals around the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are so overburdened they are closing their doors to patients."This is very frightening, to know that…
