Covid-19 restrictions easing in US and Europe
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 07:11
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
Air travel in the U.S. hit its highest mark since COVID-19 took hold more than 13 months ago, while European Union officials are proposing to ease restrictions on visitors to the continent as the...
'Horrible' weeks ahead as India's virus catastrophe worsens
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 07:07
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people...
EXPLAINER: Why India's pandemic data is vastly undercounted
Monday, 3 May 2021, 07:02
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
Even after more than a year of devastating coronavirus surges across the world, the intensity and scale of India's current crisis stands out, with patients desperate for short supplies of oxygen,...
Pope prays for pandemic's end and for a 'horizon of hope'
Sunday, 2 May 2021, 07:13
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
Pope Francis in a special prayer service on Saturday in St. Peter's Basilica invoked the end of the pandemic and a return of what he called “a horizon of hope," including a scenario in which...
Charity, military vessels take 800-plus migrants to Italy
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 17:07
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
A charity group’s ship sailed toward a Sicilian port Saturday with 236 migrants who were rescued in the Mediterranean from human traffickers' boats, while Italian coast guard and border police...
May Day protesters demand more job protections amid pandemic
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 17:03
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
Workers and union leaders dusted off bullhorns and flags that had stayed furled during coronavirus lockdowns for slimmed down but still boisterous — and at times violent — May Day marches...
Russia blacklists 8 EU officials in retaliatory action
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 09:10
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
Russia on Friday blacklisted eight officials from the European Union in retaliation for EU sanctions over the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Russian list includes...
UK allows dancing without distancing at nightclub test event
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 07:36
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
Several thousand music fans on Friday became the first people in Britain in more than a year to legally dance, drink and listen to music in a nightclub, as part of a test to see whether social...