Top news of the week: 17.05.2022.
Coronavirus
Japan prepares to reopen to tourists for first time since 2020
‘Test tourism’ to begin in May in the form of limited package tours as a way of gathering information prior to full reopening
US finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has ...
US, Western Europe fret over uncertain Ukraine war endgame
WASHINGTON (AP) — An interminable and unwinnable war in Europe? That’s what NATO leaders fear and are bracing for as Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds into its third month with little sign of ...
GE medical dye shortage felt beyond US as German hospital affected
A shortage of dye for medical scans produced by General Electric's healthcare unit in China is affecting regions beyond the United States with a German hospital warned of a supply squeeze.
US Covid deaths hit 1m, a death toll higher than any other country
Virus has laid bare America’s fragmented healthcare system and corrosive racial and socioeconomic inequality
The AP Interview: US ‘vulnerable’ to COVID without new shots
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha issued a dire warning Thursday that the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if ...
Senator Rand Paul single-handedly holds up $40bn US aid for Ukraine
Democratic and Republican Senate leaders both supported package but Paul objected to scale of spending
Death certificates reveal that US hit grim COVID milestone
NEW YORK (AP) — When the U.S. hit 1 million COVID-19 deaths on Monday, the news was driven by a government tally derived from death certificates. But that's not the only tally. And you may ...