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Spanish Holiday Hotspot Bans Public Smoking

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The Spanish Canary Islands is the first place in Europe to ban smoking in public in effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus. The ban, which took effect on Oct. 8, aims to reduce […]

Experimental Covid-19 Plasma Treatment Creates Black Market in Pakistan

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Drug therapies, vaccine testing and experimental treatments to fight the Covid-19 pandemic have spread globally. In Pakistan, convalescent plasma therapy has been actively hyped. Public appeals from health experts around the world and internet initiatives […]

Mike Pence calls Joe Biden ‘cheerleader for Communist China’ as Covid-19 blame leads VP debate

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When the late Geraldine Ferraro took her place on a vice-presidential debate stage in 1984, the United States was only a few years removed from normalizing relations with the People’s Republic of China. Nine presidential […]

Inmate from east Mississippi prison dies in Jackson hospital

A company that operates the East Mississippi Correctional Facility said Monday that an inmate from that prison has died in a Jackson hospital. Otis C. Taylor, 51, was being treated for an undisclosed illness at […]

Round Island Lighthouse open for first time in 6 months

A lighthouse on the Mississippi Gulf Coast has reopened to the public, after being shuttered six months because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tours of the Round Island Lighthouse in Pascagoula are available every Friday and […]

Nearly 1M who died of COVID-19 also illuminated treatment

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer The nearly 1 million people around the world who have lost their lives to COVID-19 have left us a gift: Through desperate efforts to save their lives, scientists […]

Mississippi justices: No broad absentee voting amid COVID-19

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Mississippi law does not allow absentee voting by all people who have health conditions that might make them vulnerable to COVID-19, the state Supreme […]

Mississippi State Fair set to go on with COVID-19 rules

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Mississippi is planning to go ahead with its annual state fair in early October with new rules to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. […]

Covid-19 Threatens India’s Most Vulnerable Tribes

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The Great Andamanese live in the Andaman Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean about 1,500 miles south of New Delhi. The government classifies the Great Andamanese as a particularly vulnerable tribal group or PVTG. […]

American Airlines to slash 40,000 jobs through October

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American Airlines announced it will slash 40,000 U.S.-based jobs through October due to a sharp decline in air travel since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The cost-cutting move will reduce the mainline staff of […]