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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...

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