Jun 10 Mumbai building collapse kills 11 after monsoon flooding By Associated Press Heavy monsoon rains had flooded several parts of the city that is India's financial and entertainment capital. Continue reading
Jun 09 Watch 7:58 Mastercard Foundation gives $1.3 billion to boost vaccinations in Africa In one of the largest private sector donations of its kind, the Mastercard Foundation announced it will give $1.3 billion over the next three years to vaccinate 50 million people in Africa. Fewer than 2 percent of the people there… Continue watching
Jun 09 Watch 3:50 States pull out all the stops in push to increase vaccinations By William Brangham, Claire Mufson With the pace of vaccination in the U.S. slowing, the Biden administration’s goal of getting 70 percent of adults inoculated with at least one shot by July 4 is looking harder. Given that, a month-long campaign has begun with incentives… Continue watching
Jun 09 U.S. to buy 500 million Pfizer vaccines to share with other countries By News Desk and Zeke Miller, Associated Press The U.S. will buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to share through the COVAX alliance for donation to 92 lower income countries and the African Union over the next year. Continue reading
Jun 09 El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender By Marcos Aleman, Associated Press The digital currency will be able to be used in any transaction and any business will have to accept payment in Bitcoin, with the exception of those lacking the technology to do so. Continue reading
Jun 09 Polish miners, power workers, protest shift away from coal By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press Some four thousand Polish coal mining and power workers have protested in Warsaw against the gradual phasing out of coal use and against a European Union court order to immediately close down a mine. Continue reading
Jun 09 EU warns of retaliation as post-Brexit talks with UK stall By Danica Kirka, Associated Press Maros Sefcovic, the EU's chief negotiator in the talks, says the bloc had reached a "crossroads" in its relationship with the U.K. after the British government threatened to take further unilateral action to delay living up to its obligations under… Continue reading
Jun 09 Biden to assure allies and meet Putin during 1st overseas trip By Associated Press Embarking on the first overseas trip of his term, President Joe Biden is eager to reassert the United States on the world stage. Continue reading
Jun 08 British police officer pleads guilty to rape, kidnapping case that spurred protests in March By Associated Press A British police officer has pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of a woman as she walked home in south London and whose body was found a week later in woodland. Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch 5:30 News Wrap: Task force identifies more than 3,900 children separated from parents at border In our news wrap Tuesday, the Biden administration identified more than 3,900 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under a Trump administration policy, a 16-country sting operation found criminals planned drug deals and killings on a messaging… Continue watching