WASHINGTON – The U.S. Agency for Global Media has released financial documents showing the agency’s Trump-appointed CEO paid an outside law firm more than $1 million for work that included investigating its own staff.In a statement Friday, USAGM said i…
WHO to Release Mid-March Report on China COVID-19 Inspection
Investigators who conducted an inspection in China to determine origins of the COVID-19 virus will release a report on their findings in mid-March, a World Health Organization official said Friday.Peter Ben Embarek, who led the mission, clarified at a …
SpaceX Test Rocket Launches, Lands, Then Explodes
An unmanned SpaceX Starship SN10 test rocket – designed to take humans to the moon and beyond – perfectly launched and touched down on Earth Wednesday, but then exploded on the launch pad shortly after landing.It was third consecutive test flight of th…
COVID-19 Pandemic Sparks Rights Abuses Worldwide, HRW Says
HARARE – Human Rights Watch has released a report saying the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic set off human rights crises worldwide. The report documents how government have allowed corruption to flourish, and used the pandemic to clamp down critics…
Chinese-Australians Say Pandemic Sparked Increased Discrimination
SYDNEY – According to a new survey, one-in-five Chinese-Australians say they have been physically threatened or attacked because of their heritage in the past year. Respondents to the study by the Sydney-based Lowy Institute have blamed discrimination …
Sudan, Rwanda Receive Shipments of COVID-19 Vaccines
Sudan and Rwanda received their first shipments of COVID-19 vaccines Wednesday, according to the U.N.Sudan received the initial 820,000 doses out of a total of 3,400,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine secured by COVAX, a global program to distribute vacc…