US monitoring dozens of holiday cruise ships hit by COVID-19
MIAMI, United States—US authorities on Sunday were monitoring dozens of cruise ships hit by COVID-19 cases, with several reportedly denied ...
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Haiti police hunt down president’s assassins
Port-au-Prince— Haitian police killed four “mercenaries” they said were behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moise Wednesday and took two ...
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1m Latin America deaths as IMF plans to end virus
MONTEVIDEO—Latin America and the Caribbean passed one million coronavirus deaths on Friday as the IMF proposed a $50 billion plan ...
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Costa Cruises probed over Caribbean Covid deaths: judicial sources
French investigators are probing manslaughter allegations against Italy's Costa Cruises over its handling of Covid-19 cases onboard one of its ...
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Latin America, Caribbean briefly overtakes N. America in virus cases
Coronavirus cases in Latin America and the Caribbean surged on Sunday, briefly overtaking the total in North America, an AFP ...
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Number of global virus cases tops 16 million: AFP tally
The global number of coronavirus cases crossed 16 million on Sunday, more than half of them in the Americas and ...
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Latin America and Caribbean record 500,000 virus cases
Latin America and the Caribbean have recorded more than half a million coronavirus infections, according to an AFP tally based ...
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Que triste para Cuba!
How sad for Cuba! But, before I tell you why, let me first share with you my impressions of this ...
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The science of resilience
As I am writing this, wildfires rage in the wine country of California. A month ago and several states away, ...
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‘Irma’-affected Pinoys face repatriation
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday said it would repatriate more than 200 Filipinos from several islands in the ...
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