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The remaining structure of a partially collapsed condominium building in Surfside, Florida, was demolished late Sunday night, just 10 days after the initial disaster and amid a grueling effort to search for more than 120 missing residents. The upright portion of the Champlain Towers South building was intricately filled with detonated charges to bring the building down just after 10:30 p.m. ET on Independence Day. This was after parts of the building first collapsed in the middle of t...

President Joe Biden gave an emphatic address from the South Lawn of the White House on July 4 to commemorate U.S. independence and mark the country's progress in battling the pandemic. The focus of much of Biden's televised address revolved around a push for vaccination against COVID-19 as the president warned that the virus had not yet been "vanquished" and called getting vaccinated "the most patriotic thing" Americans could do. "COVID-19 has ...

An explosion rocked the Caspian Sea on Sunday, with an Azerbaijan oil company stating the cause was due to a "natural burning mud volcano." The blast is reported to have taken place around six miles from the Umid gas field, Ibrahim Ahmadov, a spokesman for the SOCAR state oil company, told Azerbaijani news agency APA, and around 46 miles off the coast of Azerbaijani capital Baku. In a statement published on Facebook, SOCAR confirmed none of its industrial facilities were ...

One person has died and several more are injured after a shooting disrupted a Fourth of July block party in Toledo, Ohio on Sunday. The Toledo Police Department responded to shots fired shortly after 10 p.m. local time near Lawrence Avenue and Detroit Avenue. Several victims were taken from the scene to local area hospitals. Lieutenant Paul Davis confirmed to Newsweek on Monday morning that 11 people were injured during the incident. Davis also said there were multiple shooter...

Florida's plan to use COVID-19 relief funding to provide $1,000 bonuses to nearly 180,000 educators could be at risk, after the Biden administration warned the proposal falls outside of the scope of how the money is supposed to be used. The U.S. Department of Education sent Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran a letter last week advising that the bonuses included in the budget Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law last month appear to fall outside federal g...

Indonesian police threw up roadblocks and more than 400 checkpoints on the islands of Java and Bali to ensure hundreds of millions of people stayed home on Saturday, the first day of stricter curbs on movement to limit the spread of COVID-19. As it battles one of Asia's worst coronavirus outbreaks, the world's fourth-most-populous nation has seen record new infections on eight of the past 12 days, with Friday bringing 25,830 cases and a high of 539 deaths. "We are setting u...

The World Health Organization is calling for urgent action to stem the rapid spread of COVID-19 across Africa, which is being fueled by a surge of more contagious variants of the disease. Latest reports say COVID-19 cases in Africa have been rising by 25% every week for the past six weeks, bringing reported cases there to more than 5.4 million, including 141,000 deaths. WHO regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, warns the rampant spread of the more contagious alpha, beta, and d...

Taliban insurgents have continued to make rapid territorial gains in Afghanistan as the United States said its last remaining troops are expected to withdraw from the conflict-torn country by the end of August. Multiple Afghan sources said Saturday the Taliban had pressured pro-government forces to retreat from at least a dozen districts in northeastern Badakhshan and Takhar border provinces in the past 24 hours. Pro-government forces in many areas are said to be surrendering and abandonin...

The simmering war in Afghanistan, if official accounts are to be accepted, has killed more people last month than in any other month since 2001, when the United States and NATO troops invaded the country. Battlefield violence between pro-Afghan government forces and the Taliban insurgency have particularly surged since May 1, when the last of the U.S.-led international forces formally began exiting the conflict-torn nation under orders from President Joe Biden. The Taliban have overrun ...

It is one of the dining capitals of the world, but Bangkok’s foodie reputation is now hanging by a thread as the coronavirus devastates the city’s restaurant scene - the damage seen in for sale signs on the street and desperate Facebook posts from chefs lamenting closures. Bo.lan, Chu and Soul Food Mahanakorn are city favorites all wiped out by a virus which bit deep into restaurant revenue during the first lockdown in April 2020, but 15 months later has killed off the business...

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Thousands of people were being evacuated from villages around a rumbling volcano near the Philippine capital Friday, but officials said they faced another dilemma of ensuring emergency shelters will not turn into epicenters of COVID-19 infections. The alert was raised to three on a five-level scale after Taal Volcano blasted a dark gray plume into the sky Thursday. The five-minute steam- and gas-driven explosion was followed by four smaller emissions, but the volcano was generally calm on ...

Two more bodies were found at the site of a collapsed condominium building in the Miami area, raising the death toll to 20, the Associated Press reported. One of those bodies belonged to the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter, the Miami-Dade County mayor said. "It goes without saying that every night since this last Wednesday has been immensely difficult for everybody and particularly the families that have been impacted," said Daniella Levine Cava. "But last...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are now investigating the death of a 13-year-old Michigan boy, Jacob Clynick, who died a few days after receiving his second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Martha Sharan, a public affairs officer for the CDC's COVID-19 vaccine task force, wrote in a statement to Newsweek that, "CDC is aware of a 13-year-old boy in Michigan who died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. This case is currently under inv...

As the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spread in the U.S., a handful of states have been hit harder than most amid fears of a fresh wave of infections over Fourth of July weekend. The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has analysed data collected from 25 U.S. states over four weeks to June 5, and concluded that the states with the highest proportions of the Delta variant—or B.1.617.2—are Missouri at 29.9 percent, Colorado...

The World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday that at least 3,800 metric tons of food had been blocked from reaching the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the Associated Press reported. A bridge over the Tekeze River used to help transport aid into the region was destroyed on Thursday. WFP said in a statement that no flights bringing United Nations or other aid to the region have been allowed by Ethiopia since June 22 and that another bridge was destroyed on Thursday, as well. WFP emer...

United States President Joe Biden is warning people to take precautions while celebrating the July 4 holiday this weekend, voicing concern that "people will die" after attending large gatherings in places where vaccination rates are low. "I am not concerned there's going to be a major outbreak, in other words, that we're gonna have another epidemic nationwide, but I'm concerned lives will be lost," Biden told reporters on Friday. More than 600,0...

Seventeen people, including police, were hurt when a large explosion rocked a Los Angeles neighborhood Wednesday evening as thousands of pounds of illegal fireworks were being seized, officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, police said. The blast happened about 7:30 p.m. local time (10:30 p.m. E.T.) as the bomb squad was detonating some of the explosives in a vehicle with a containment vessel designed to withstand blasts. "This vessel should have be...

With the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus spreading quickly across the globe, countries are racing against time to vaccinate their populations, with plans to reopen after lengthy lockdowns at risk. And while the United States and countries in western Europe are cautiously easing social restrictions, elsewhere nations that once enjoyed relative success containing the spread of the virus are now faltering. On Wednesday, France lifted its&nbs...

The number of Covid-19 cases in the United States rose 10 percent this week as the highly contagious delta variant gained further ground, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The country's lagging vaccination rate coupled with the "hypertransmissible delta variant," first detected in India, could account for the increase, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House briefing. The delta variant is about 60 percent more transmissible ...

Honolulu police officers were justified in their use of deadly force against Lindani Myeni and will face no charges, the city's prosecuting attorney has announced. Myeni, a 29-year-old citizen of South Africa, was shot dead during a struggle with officers after he entered a home in the Nuuanu neighborhood on April 14, prompting a female occupant to call 911. At a news conference on Wednesday, Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm shared the findings of a two-month investigation in...

Two adults and one child were shot to death in an apartment in Houston, on Wednesday night. A 10-year-old girl in the residence survived by playing dead and then calling her grandmother for help. Houston police responded to the shooting near West Houston Airport just after 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, where they discovered a 6-year-old girl, her mother and her father had been shot and killed. The couple had three other children in addition to the 6-year-old: an 8-year-old boy wh...

As the threat of the Delta COVID variant looms ahead of the July 4 celebrations, half of Americans fear the potential onset of a new wave of the virus, according to a poll released Thursday. The new survey of 1,115 adults in the U.S. aged 18 and older, conducted by the Marist Poll in partnership with NPR and PBS NewsHour, said 50 percent of Americans "express concern about the possibility of a new wave of the coronavirus." The poll was conducted by phone from Ju...

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are on their way to Surfside, Florida to meet with local officials and families of the victims of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse. Biden has a packed schedule for the trip. He will first have a briefing with Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, other local leaders and first responders. Then he will thank the first responders and search-and-rescue teams, meet with families of the victims and missi...

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City’s subway overpass-stretch, which left 26 dead after it collapsed last month, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Lopez Obrador said during his daily press briefing on Wednesday that he met with Slim, and that the billionaire assured the President that his construction firm “will pay for everything” needed for the reconstruction of Mexico City’s ...

The Delta variant of the coronavirus is worrying officials around the world. Four major Australian cities went into a four-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown this week to try and stop it from spreading. Australia’s Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, announced looser vaccination policies to try to get more people immunized before the variant could spread. Ireland delayed plans to resume indoor service in bars and restaurants and US officials urged Americans to get vaccinated to stop...

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Tengo buenas habilidades de comunicación. Desde la universidad, sigo a mi equipo de fútbol favorito, el FC Barcelona. Hice predicciones sobre el resultado de sus partidos y obtuve buenos resultados. Decidí relacionar mi vida con las apuestas deportivas. Actualmente trabajo como editor de contenidos en Mightytips.

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When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is presiding over a protracted civil war that by many accounts bears the hallmarks of genocide and has the potential to destabilize the wider Horn of Africa region. In November, Abiy ordered a military offensive in the northern Tigray region and promised that the conflict would be resolved quickly. Eight months on, the fighting has l...

Despite a desperate need for Covid-19 vaccines, Brazil is suspending a deal to purchase 20 million doses of the Indian-made Covaxin vaccines, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday, after questions were raised about a pricing increase. The ministry said the decision was made on the recommendation of the Comptroller General of Brazil (CGU). “According to the preliminary analysis of the CGU, there are no irregularities in the contract, but, due to compl...

Oxygen prices in Indonesia’s capital had more than doubled and some suppliers reported shortages on Tuesday after a surge in Covid-19 cases that prompted the Red Cross to warn of a coronavirus “catastrophe” in Southeast Asia’s biggest country. Indonesia has announced record daily Covid-19 infections of more than 20,000 in recent days, in a new wave fueled by the emergence of highly transmissible virus variants and increased mobility after the Muslim fastin...

Kim Jong Un fired several senior officials who failed to enforce North Korea’s stringent Covid-19 prevention, a dereliction of duty which the young dictator said will have “grave consequences” for the impoverished and isolated nation, state media reported Wednesday. It is unclear who or exactly how many officials were responsible for the unspecified incident, which Kim called a “great crisis.” But it appears some members of the upper echelons of the ...

From Tuesday 28 September the rest of Queensland was subject to stage three restrictions.There are additional restrictions in place for some south-east LGA’s including changes to face mask rules and visiting aged care facilities. There are also new mask rules for anyone across the state attending a stadium event. From Sunday 3 October, the Richmond Valley LGA will be part of the restricted border zone, joining the Kyogle LGA. And the Walgett Shire will no longer be part ...

Just 5,000 Australians in disability care – fewer than one in five people – have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 more than four months into the rollout, new data shows. The disability care industry has also warned some providers are again being forced to source their own vaccinations, rather than wait for commonwealth in-reach teams to turn up. The federal government placed disability care residents in the highest priority cohort for its vaccine program, but...

There were two intense areas of heavy rain in the Northeast on Monday afternoon and evening. Across Bucks and Burlington counties in southeast Pennsylvania, 6 to 12 inches of rain fell in a few hours, prompting high water rescues across the area. Farther north, radar reports estimated that 3 to 5 inches of rain had fell in western Passaic County and far western Bergen County in New Jersey. As of Tuesday morning, it had rained 9 out of 13 days so far this month in New York City. And with 8....

City officials in Miami Beach, Florida, evacuated an apartment building Monday because of concrete deterioration, an attorney for the building's owners said. The building, at 6881 Indian Creek Drive, is at least the fourth in Florida to be have been evacuated or partly evacuated since the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside on June 24. Two days later, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava ordered an aud...

The death toll from a fire that tore through a coronavirus hospital in southern Iraq rose to 92, health officials said Tuesday, as authorities faced accusations of negligence from grieving relatives and a doctor who works there. More than 100 people were injured in the blaze Monday night in Nassiriya, officials said. An investigation showed the fire began when sparks from faulty wiring spread to an oxygen tank that then exploded, police and civil defense authorities ...

A 1-year-old girl was among the newest group of victims identified Tuesday in the partial collapse of a Miami Beach-area condo building, according to officials. Aishani Gia Patel was recovered July 6, the Miami-Dade Police Department said in a news release. The remains of her parents, Vishal Patel, 42, and Bhavna Patel, 38, were identified last week. Bhavna Patel was five months pregnant, relatives said. Eighty-five victims recovered from the rubble of Champlain Towers Sout...

A man was dead and a woman was injured after a security guard fired at them at a grocery store in Baltimore, police said Tuesday.fficers saw a man and a woman with gunshot wounds while responding to reports of a shooting at about 4:30 p.m. in the 6600 block of Reisterstown Road, Baltimore police said. The grocery store is part of Giant Food chain, NBC affiliate WBAL reported. The man and the woman were taken to a hospital, where the man was pronounced dead. The woman, who was not...

Chicago officials issued a travel warning on Tuesday for Missouri and Arkansas amid an increase of Covid-19 cases there, authorities said. This is the first time in weeks the city has issued a travel warning. Tuesday’s announcement means any unvaccinated people traveling from Missouri and Arkansas are advised to obtain a negative Covid-19 test no more than 72 hours prior to arriving in Chicago, or they must quarantine for 10 days upon arrival, a city statement said. Missouri ...

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as dozens of wildfires grip U.S. Western states. Nearly 60 blazes across 10 parched states have been recorded so far as the country struggles with a long, intense summer. The Bootleg Fire—currently the largest—has ripped across more than 150,000 acres of Oregon, threatening not only thousands of homes but also part of California's power supply. As of Monday night, Arizona, Idaho and Montana accounted for more ...

The rise in infections that will follow the government’s plans to reopen on 19 July will put intense pressure on the NHS and hit the service’s attempts to tackle its huge backlog of care, hospital bosses have said. They voiced deep unease that the lifting of almost all restrictions, and especially mandatory face masks, would put already busy hospitals under extra strain. Dr Layla McCay, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, said many GP services and hospital...

Southern England was hit by torrential downpours that resulted in significant flooding on Monday night. The Met Office said the heavy and slow-moving thundery showers caused floods in parts of London. The London fire brigade said its 999 control officers received over 150 calls to flooding incidents in the capital. Forecasters said the torrential showers were expected to continue through most of the evening. The Met Office issued a yellow warning for rain lasting until midnight,...

At least 50 people have died after a fire tore through the Covid isolation ward at a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. The death toll is expected to rise, as search operations at al-Hussain coronavirus hospital continued after the fire was brought under control. Sixteen people were rescued from the burning building. “The victims died of burns and the search is continuing,” said Haydar al-Zamili, a spokesperson for the local health authorities, noting that the...

Concerns about the spread of the Delta variant in apartment buildings has prompted a hard lockdown of two residential complexes in Sydney and Melbourne. An apartment building in Bondi Junction in Sydney’s east remains under police guard after eight cases of Covid were detected across five of the 29 apartments, while residents of an apartment building in Maribyrnong in Melbourne’s north-western suburbs have been ordered to isolate after a removalist with Covid worked there ...

“Crossing the border may be illegal, but it should not be a death sentence,” reads a Facebook post from the non-profit group Humane Borders. But for 43 immigrants whose remains were found along Arizona’s borderlands with Mexico, the journey proved to be fatal. Scorched days in the Sonoran desert, with little to no water, and cold nights prove to be unforgiving to the weary travelers, many of whom flee violence, the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and economic despair ...

ALyft passenger in Georgia was shot multiple times in the early hours of Saturday morning when an individual in another car fired at their ride-sharing vehicle. Officers from the Atlanta Police Department were called to the Shell gas station on Moreland Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, at around 2:18 a.m. local time on Saturday morning after reports of a shooting, according to a preliminary press release by the authorities. "Preliminary investigation indicates the victim and a...

Catalonia's regional government has recommended that local authorities restrict access to high-trafficked beaches as Spain tries to curb COVID surges, the Associated Press reported. Other regions throughout the country are enacting other measures, such as a 10-person limit in social gatherings and curfews to restrict late-night activities. In Catalonia, where just a few dozen people are fully vaccinated, the government has also prohibited any eating and drinking in the streets and bann...

Two firefighters were killed Saturday in Arizona as wildfires raged through the West, threatening California's overburdened power grid during an oppressive heat wave and ongoing drought. The firefighters were killed in a plane crash while conducting aerial reconnaissance over the Cedar Basin Fire near the Prescott National Forest, the Bureau of Land Management said in a statement. "Our hearts are heavy tonight with sincere condolences to families, loved ones and firefighters af...