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…
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Russian Statistics Agency Reports COVID Deaths Surpass 200,000
Russia’s statistics agency said Friday that more than 200,000 Russians diagnosed with COVID-19 have died, more than double the figure used by the government’s coronavirus task force.Rosstat, a government agency that releases coronavirus data infrequent…
Read moreCOVID-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…
Read moreSpaceX 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…
Read morePeru will Receive a Second Vaccine Wednesday to Battle COVID-19
Peru is getting another weapon in its battle against the spread of COVID-19 on Wednesday. President Francisco Sagasti said his country will receive the first batch of 50,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer Wednesday…
Read moreChinese-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 …
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