CRAZY WEATHER! Snow Storm in Japan (Dec 16, 2020)
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Japan snowfall leaves thousands without power, vehicles stranded
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called an emergency meeting after 10,000 households lost electricity and 1,000 vehicles got stuck on roads The heavy snowfall was centred on Niigata and Gunma prefectures, which have had about 2 metres of snow over three days Trucks are stranded on a major road in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, after heavy snow…
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Hunger study predicts 168,000 pandemic-linked child deaths
FILE – In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 file photo, two-year-old Akon Morro, who is anemic and suffers from edema due to malnutrition, sits on the floor of a feeding center in Al Sabah Children’s Hospital in the capital Juba, South Sudan. Economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has set back two decades of progress…
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Devastated by Covid, Latin America is now unprepared for vaccine
With eight percent of the globe’s population and 30 percent of its Covid-19 deaths, Latin America is facing the pandemic’s next phase – mass vaccination – with alarm. HEALTHCARE WORKERS OF THE SAN JOSÉ HOSPITAL MOBILE UNIT TREAT VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS AT A CLOSED SCHOOL IN MAICAO, LA GUAJIRA, COLOMBIA. | BLOOMBERG/NICOLO FILIPPO ROSSO One afternoon a couple months…
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Small Business And Jobs Smashed By COVID-19 Lockdowns
Analysis by free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs of recently released data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals that over 230,000 small businesses are expected to close and 470,000 jobs will be permanently destroyed once COVID-19 support measures are inevitably removed. Approximately 10% of small businesses expect to cease operating once government…
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USDA reports show drop in domestic production, global stocks
A pair of reports from Department of Agriculture economists project a drop in American grain and oilseed production and overseas stocks on hand, prolonging a bump in commodity prices. The forecasts — monthly Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates reports — also project decreased average yields on farms across the country. The drop in corn ending…
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What if tropical diseases had as much attention as COVID?
As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to erode huge gains against much more devastating infections, I look for silver linings. All year, COVID-19 has commandeered the world’s attention. It is as if no other disease has ever been more important, more contagious or more deadly. I founded a non-profit research institute in 2008; we established the…
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Flooding in Sardinia leaves at least three people dead
At least three people have been killed by flooding on the Italian island of Sardinia, according to authorities and local media. In Bitti, a town in the province of Nuoro, streets were turned into rivers of mud that covered cars and flooded cellars. “The situation in Bitti has been particularly dramatic,” regional environment councillor Gianni…
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Europe’s cases subside as deaths surge; world’s infections pass 63 Million
A couple pass coronavirus advice and a Christmas tree in Covent Garden in London on Monday. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced non-essential shops in all parts of England will be allowed to reopen when lockdown ends Wednesday. Photo by Neil Hall/EPA-EFE Nov. 29 (UPI) — Coronavirus deaths have been surging throughout Europe but cases have…