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Private sector and nonprofits join US in sending aid to India amid COVID crisis
Rebecca Conway/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — With restrictions on travel to the U.S. from India taking effect Tuesday, the Biden administration, private companies and nonprofits are working to send s...
May 03, 2021
How to help India amid COVID-19 surge that's devastating the country
KeithBinns/iStock(NEW YORK) -- As India faces an overwhelming surge of record-breaking COVID-19 cases and deaths, humanitarian organizations are offering ways to help the country in dire need of resou...
May 03, 2021
South Africa to end captive lion breeding, bone trade
Nick Shillan/iStock(LONDON) -- South Africa announced Sunday it plans to end its multimillion-dollar captive lion industry and said it won’t oppose the international ban on the rhinoceros horn a...
May 03, 2021
Meet the eccentric field of candidates running to be London's next mayor
Vladislav Zolotov/iStock(LONDON) -- An American businessman with a penchant for loud suits. The actor with an “anti-woke” agenda. YouTubers with ironic campaigns. An intergalactic “s...
May 03, 2021
First US aid arrives in India amid COVID crisis
PRAKASH SINGH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As India faced a growing crisis with COVID-19 spreading rapidly through the country, the first U.S. relief to help with the pandemic has began to a...
Apr 30, 2021
North Korean defector group claims to have sent leaflets at border in defiance of new law
bedo/iStock(SEOUL, South Korea) -- In defiance of new laws that ban sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets, an anti-North Korean activist group claimed it has launched balloons carrying leaflets and U.S. dol...
Apr 30, 2021
Afghans fear US withdrawal could stifle progress as Taliban wait in the shadows
KeithBinns/iStock(NEW YORK) -- It's been almost two decades since the United States declared a war on terror, and the country is finally closing the chapter on its longest war. President Joe Biden ann...
Apr 30, 2021
Americans among 45 dead in Israel stampede
joseh51camera/iStock(JERUSALEM) -- Multiple Americans were among those killed and injured in a stampede in Israel that's killed dozens, the State Department said Friday. The State Department has not r...
Apr 29, 2021
A 'complete collapse' of preventive health: How India's second COVID wave exploded
KeithBinns/iStock(NEW YORK) -- India is caught in the throes of a ferocious second wave of coronavirus, with the nation's health authority reporting 360,960 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday alone, the ...
Apr 29, 2021
Curtains come down on UK PM Boris Johnson over Downing Street redecoration
DZarzycka/iStock(LONDON) -- President Harry Truman installed the first White House bowling alley. As first lady, Hillary Clinton built a music room. The Obamas introduced a basketball court, later con...
Apr 29, 2021
