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US consulate a turning point for disputed Western Sahara

DAKHLA, Western Sahara — Trawlers pack the bustling Western Saharan port of Dakhla, where fish scales glisten from workers' arms as they roll up their nets and buyers shout bids in a sprawling auction warehouse. Nearby, turquoise waters lap wide, ...

The Latest: Japanese Health Ministry finds new virus variant

TOKYO — The Japanese Health Ministry has found a coronavirus variant in people arriving from Brazil that's different from the ones in Britain and South Africa. The variant was found in airport tests on a man in his 40s, a woman in her 30s and two teens, the ...

A Year After Wuhan, China Tells a Tale of Triumph (and No Mistakes)

The New York Times

The New York Times

At a museum in Wuhan, China, a sprawling exhibition paints a stirring tale of how the city's sacrifices in a brutal 76-day lockdown led to triumph over the coronavirus and, ultimately, rebirth. No costs appear to have been spared for the show, which features a ...

Johnson under fire as UK again faces onslaught of COVID-19

LONDON — The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus deaths. The U.K. is the epicenter of Europe's COVID-19 outbreak once more, ...

Covid-19: The challenges of home-schooling

A mother wakes at dawn to copy out worksheets for her children on to pieces of paper. Secondary school pupils attempt to write essays on their mobile phones, while younger children queue to wait their turn on the one computer in the house. That, according ...

The state of the climate in 2021

After the turbulent year of 2020, BBC Future takes stock on the state of the climate at the beginning of 2021. F. From unprecedented wildfires across the US to the extraordinary heat of Siberia, the impacts of climate change were felt in every corner of the world ...

The Latest: China sees growing outbreak south of Beijing

BEIJING — More than 360 people have tested positive in a growing coronavirus outbreak south of Beijing in neighboring Hebei province. China's National Health Commission reported Sunday that 69 new cases had been confirmed in the latest 24-hour ...

At this rate, January will be the deadliest month of Covid-19 in the US

CNN

CNN

(CNN) It took about 90 days for the United States to reach its first 2 million cases of coronavirus last year. But it took just 10 days to hit 2.2 million cases in 2021, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. And new infections, hospitalizations and deaths ...

Covid: Students call for university accommodation refunds

Students in Wales want partial refunds for university accommodation because they are not spending as much time there due to the coronavirus pandemic. The National Union of Students Wales (NUS Wales) said students "shouldn't be penalised financially" ...

Covid-19: Hancock warns flexing of rules 'could be fatal'

Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar. Matt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under "very serious pressure".