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Asia Today: Australian hot spot, South Korea hit new lows
Australia's coronavirus hot spot Victoria state on Monday recorded its lowest number of new infections in more than three months as the nation's second-largest city, Melbourne, further eased lockdown restrictions.The easing of restrictions in Melbourne, the state capital, will allow most children to return to school from mid-October and send more than 125,000 people back to work.
Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews told reporters that his state was "so close to being able to take a really big step. towards that COVID-normal," after only five new cases were recorded in the... Read More
Report: Cardinal Pell returning to Vatican in crisis
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ??" Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis' former finance minister, will soon return to the Vatican during an extraordinary economic scandal for the first time since he was cleared of child abuse allegations in Australia five months ago, a newspaper reported Monday.Pell will fly back to Rome on Tuesday, Herald-Sun newspaper columnist Andrew Bolt wrote. The report by a vocal champion of the cardinal did not cite a source for the cardinal's plans.
The Associated Press attempted to contact Pell where he lives in a Sydney seminary for confirmation and... Read More
UN failures on coronavirus underscore the need for reforms
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ??" The coronavirus that has claimed nearly 1 million lives has underscored the failure of the United Nations to bring countries together to defeat it, prompting renewed calls to reform the world body so that it can meet challenges far different ??" and more daunting ??" than those it faced at its birth.As U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last week, "The pandemic is a clear test of international cooperation ??" a test we have essentially failed." There is a "disconnect between leadership and power," he said, warning that in the 21st century's... Read More
Nearly 1M who died of COVID-19 also illuminated treatment
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 now better understand how to treat and prevent the disease ??" and millions of others may survive.Ming Wang, 71, and his wife were on a cruise from Australia, taking a break after decades of running the family's Chinese restaurant in Papillion, Nebraska, when he was infected. In the 74 days he was hospitalized before his death in June, doctors frantically tried various experimental approaches, including enrolling him in... Read More
Conservatives lead in French Senate elections, Greens gain
PARIS (AP) ??" France's main conservative party looked set to keep control of the Senate and the Greens made new gains in partial elections Sunday that posed a new challenge to President Emmanuel Macron's struggling centrist movement.Nearly half of the chamber's 348 seats were up for grabs in the vote, an indirect election in which some 90,000 local elected officials like city councilors choose the senators.
As results gradually came in Sunday night, Senate President Gerard Larcher of the Republicans party tweeted that the center-right majority was intact, and that he... Read More
Top Stories in International News
- Asia Today: Australian hot spot, South Korea hit new lows
- Report: Cardinal Pell returning to Vatican in crisis
- UN failures on coronavirus underscore the need for reforms
- Nearly 1M who died of COVID-19 also illuminated treatment
- Conservatives lead in French Senate elections, Greens gain
- Mali transitional government appoints new prime minister
- Fighting erupts between Armenia, Azerbaijan; 18 killed
- 100,000 march in Belarus capital on 50th day of protests
- Greek police arrest 3 human traffickers, free 7 captives
- Russian dissident Navalny recovering faster than expected
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