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WHO Declares COVID Is No Longer A Health Emergency

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:58 GMT

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency.The announcement was made by WHO Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Friday, a day after the WHO emergency committee convened and made the suggestion.“The Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern,” Ghebreyesus said Friday. “It is therefore with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency.”The director general said, however, countries should not view this deceleration as a call to stop its efforts toward fighting the disease. Instead, there should be a “transition” to manage COVID-19 as other infectious diseases are managed.“Last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about,” Ghebreyesus said. “As we speak, thousands of people around the world are fig...

Dear Abby: The neighbors’ dog has bad manners and so do they

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:58 GMT

DEAR ABBY: We are a group of neighbors with the same breed of dog, and we walk together every Saturday morning.All our dogs are well-behaved, except for one — a young, unneutered male who is very active and humps anything that moves. Its owners are against neutering. This dog especially goes after our spayed female dog, who tries to resist him, to no avail. We often must intervene.The owners try to curb his behavior but are not consistent enough that it sticks. On top of that, when they go away they expect one of the families in the group to provide free dog-sitting and are rarely available to reciprocate. The couple generally are nice, but just have poor dog manners.So far, we dog-sit for them sparingly because of this issue. What else can we do?DOGGONE TIRED OF ITDEAR DOGGONE TIRED: The owners of that animal are irresponsible and misguided. Their unneutered dog has become a nuisance.Related ArticlesAdvice | Dear Abby: This is not how I wanted the bride to react to...

Sudan envoys begin talks amid pressure to end conflict

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:58 GMT

ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — Sudan’s warring sides were beginning talks Saturday that aim to firm up a shaky cease-fire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed the African country to the brink of collapse, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia said.The negotiations, the first between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since the fighting broke out on April 15, were taking place in Saudi Arabia’s coastal city of Jeddah, according to a joint Saudi-American statement.The talks are part of a diplomatic initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. that aims to stop the fighting, which has turned Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and other urban areas into battlefields and pushed hundreds of thousands from their homes.In their joint statement, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. urged both parties to “actively engage in the talks towards a cease fire and end to the conflict, which will spare the Sudanese people’s suffering.”The statement did not offer a timefram...

Amanda Anisimova announces indefinite break from tennis

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:58 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The WTA Tour says Amanda Anisimova plans to take take an indefinite break from tennis, citing burnout and concerns for her mental health.“I’ve really been struggling with my mental health and burnout since the summer of 2022,” the former world No. 21 American wrote on Instagram on Friday. “It’s become unbearable being at tennis tournaments. At this point, my priority is my mental well-being and taking a break for some time. I’ve worked as hard as I could to push through it.”Anisimova, now 21, reached the French Open semifinals after beating reigning champion Simona Halep to reach the final four at the age of 17 — the youngest woman to get that far at a major since 2006.But later that year, just prior to the U.S. Open, her father and longtime coach Konstantin died at the age of 52 from a heart attack.Anisimova reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon a year ago, upsetting Coco Gauff. She twice reached the fourth round of the Australian Open and beat defending champion N...

Coronación del rey Carlos III de Reino Unido en vivo y en directo

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:58 GMT

Mira aquí en vivo la ceremonia de coronación del rey Carlos III de Reino Unido.Agentes de policía marchan en el centro de Londres, el 6 de mayo de 2023, antes de las coronaciones del rey Carlos III y la reina Camila. (Crédito: Loic Venance/AFP vía Getty Images) Haz clic aquí para ver las actualizaciones más recientesThe-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Fuerza área de EEUU en Corea confirma accidente de avión de combate cerca de la base de Osan

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:58 GMT

BASE AÉREA DE OSAN, Corea del Sur – Un avión Fighting Falcon F-16, asignado a la 8a. Ala de Combate, se estrelló a las 9:45 a.m. hora local de este sábado en un área agrícola cerca de la base aérea de Osan.Durante el incidente, el piloto se expulsó de forma segura y fue trasladado al centro médico más cercano, dijo un vocero de la 51 Ala de Combate. En el momento del accidente, el piloto participaba en una salida de entrenamiento diurno de rutina.Hasta ahora, el nombre del piloto no se dio a conocer. El accidente está bajo investigación. El gobernador de un pueblo cercano a la base confirmó el accidente y negó que hubiera riesgos de una explosión secundaria. “Alrededor de las 9:30 a.m., un avión de combate estadounidense se estrelló en Paengseong-eup, Pyeongtaek. El Cuartel General de Incendios y Desastres de Gyeonggi-do fue enviado de inmediato para extinguir el incendio y rescatar vidas, y no hay riesgo de una explosión secundaria”, escribió el funcionario en su ...

¿Quién es Camila, la reina de Reino Unido? Esta es su historia

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:58 GMT

Londres (CNN) — Con el ascenso de su esposo al trono luego de la muerte de la reina Isabel II , Camila se convirtió en reina consorte y asumió un papel nuevo y más destacado junto al rey Carlos III.Coronación del rey Carlos III de Reino Unido en vivo y en directoPoco más de 25 años después de la muerte de la primera esposa de Carlos, Diana, princesa de Gales, Camila sigue siendo una figura divisiva en Gran Bretaña.Desde que ella y Charles se casaron en 2005, Camila ha trabajado arduamente como miembro de la realeza sénior, apoyando a Carlos y defendiendo organizaciones benéficas que ayudan a mujeres y niños. Pero a muchas personas les resulta difícil olvidar o perdonar su larga relación y el dolor que le causó a Diana.El drama de Netflix “The Crown” ha enfocado ese período turbulento en temporadas recientes, presentando a algunos espectadores a Camila y recordando a otros su pasado.El príncipe Carlos y Camila Parker Bowles se ven juntos a fines de 1979 antes de su ...

8 false Trump electors have accepted immunity deals in Georgia probe, lawyer says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:58 GMT

Eight Republican activists who falsely claimed to be legitimate presidential electors for Donald Trump have accepted immunity deals from the Atlanta-area district attorney investigating Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election.Kimberly Debrow, a lawyer for the false electors, revealed the arrangement — reached last month — in a court filing Friday, opposing a bid by District Attorney Fani Willis to disqualify her from representing the large group.It’s the latest indication of Willis’ advancing investigation, which she recently revealed could result in charges — possibly against Trump himself and a slew of high-profile allies — as soon as July.Trump and his inner circle orchestrated a plan for GOP electors in seven states he lost to sign documents claiming to be legitimate presidential electors. Those false electors became a component in a desperate last-ditch bid by Trump to overturn the election on Jan. 6, 2021. Citing the certificates signed by the false electors, Trump and a cadr...

Anti-monarchy group says its members were arrested ahead of planned coronation protest

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:58 GMT

The anti-monarchy group Republic says several of its members have been arrested as they prepared to protest the coronation of King Charles III.The group plans to hold placards and chant “Not my king” during the monarch’s procession to Westminster Abbey. It says police were informed in advance of its plans.But on Saturday morning several of the group’s members were stopped near Trafalgar Square and led to police vans.Others managed to protest along the route, dressed in yellow and waving placards with slogans including “king parasite” and “abolish the monarchy.”Police have said they will have have a “low tolerance” for people seeking to disrupt the day, sparking criticism that they are clamping down on free speech.More than 1,500 protesters had planned to gather beside it to chant “Not my king” as the royal procession goes by. “We’ll try and keep the atmosphere light, but our aim is to make it impossible to ignore,” said Gra...

Iran hangs Iranian-Swedish man over 2018 attack killing 25

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:58 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran executed an Iranian-Swedish dual national Saturday accused of masterminding a 2018 attack on a military parade that killed at least 25 people, one of several enemies of Tehran seized abroad in recent years amid tensions with the West.Farajollah Cha’ab, also known as Habib Asyoud, had been a leader of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, an Arab separatist movement that has conducted oil pipeline bombings and other attacks in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province. That group had claimed the 2018 attack in its immediate aftermath. Cha’ab’s execution comes as a Swedish court last year sentenced an Iranian to life in prison over his part in the 1988 mass executions in Iran at the end of its war with Iraq. Tehran, which has used prisoners as bargaining chips in negotiations with the West, reacted angrily to that sentence. Meanwhile, tensions also remain high between Iran and the West over its rapidly advancing nucl...