The Long Island family in New York announced the death of their German Shepherd, which was the first dog in the US to test positive for Covid-19. He started having trouble breathing in mid-April.more
"The business owners are black" - such signs appear on the windows of some premises in Washington. This is happening on the wave of the social campaign "Buy at Black People". Proponents of the initiative explain that it is "to help reduce social inequalities, the sources of which date back to the times of slavery and segregation."more
The World Health Organization is seeing intense transmission of the coronavirus in relatively few countries, its chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Thursday.more
A drive-by shooting at a funeral home has left 14 people wounded after mourners were ambushed on Chicago's South Side, as the city is rocked by yet another day of shocking violence. more
The US government will pay $1.95 billion for 100 million doses of a future coronavirus vaccine, which two laboratories are working on in cooperation: German Biontech and American Pfizer - announced in a joint statement of both companies.more
President Donald Trump has warned the US pandemic may "get worse before it gets better", as he revived his virus briefings with a more scripted tone.more
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has backed the UK's tough stance on Beijing, urging the international community to create an alliance against China's "bullying."more
Dozens of consignors auctioned off priceless pieces of space and tech memorabilia this week — including a rocket engine that carried Neil Armstrong to the Moon and an assortment of meteorites recovered from remote locations across the globe.more
The number of new cases of coronavirus rose by almost 260,000 in 24 hours - the largest single-day increase since the pandemic began, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday.more
A teacher and former beauty queen has been jailed for sending lewd pictures to a 15-year-old student. Ramsey Bearse, who previously taught at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Cross Lanes, West Virginia in the US, was first arrested in December 2018 by the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office.more
The chain has rebalanced the diet of some of the cows by adding lemon grass in a bid to limit bovine contributions to climate change. By tweaking their diet, Burger King said Tuesday that it believes it can reduce a cow’s daily methane emissions by about 33%.more
Technological security is now one of the dimensions of national security, so Europe cannot afford dependence on unreliable suppliers controlled by authoritarian governments - Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki writes today in 'Daily Telegraph'.more
Liz Truss, Minister for International Trade, denied that Great Britain is preparing to lower food safety standards in order to reach a trade agreement with the US. She indicated that "a common market with a third country does not mean inferior food."more
A threat to the Polish economy are potential global turbulence after a possible deterioration of the epidemic situation, perturbations after the November presidential election in the US and possible hard Brexit at the end of the year - assessed PKO BP economist Piotr Bujak.more
President Donald Trump, who since the outbreak of the epidemic has argued that the masks do not provide sufficient protection, founded one of them for the first time yesterday during a visit to the Walter Reed National Military Center, according to US media.more
In the largest Polish consular districts in the United States, New York and Chicago, most of the Polish electorate already voted in the second round of the election of the President of the Republic of Poland. All votes must be cast by mail or in person at the latest by 21:00.more
A series of leading UK supermarkets have told Business Insider that they will never sell chlorinated chicken or hormone-injected beef from the US, in a blow to those pushing for UK food standards to be dropped in order to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with Trump.more
President Donald Trump’s niece offers a scathing portrayal of her uncle in a new book, blaming a toxic family for raising a narcissistic, damaged man who poses an immediate danger to the public, according to a copy obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.more
The United States, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus, has recorded 60,209 new cases, a record for a 24-hour period, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.more
Food and Drug Administration Agency Commissioner (FDA) Stephen Hahn expressed concern about the results of the survey, which shows that 27 percent Americans wouldn't accept a free coronavirus vaccine. They approach her with fear.more
The acting leader of the Lib Dems Sir Ed Davey has written to Kent's police chief asking to investigate whether Nigel Farage broke lockdown rules by visiting the pub on Super Saturday.
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