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02.04.2021 / 15:27

UK bans travel from 4 more nations over virus; 39 in all

LONDON – The British government is gearing up to ban international arrivals from four more countries — Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan and the Philippines — amid concerns over new virus variants but opted against including France and other European nations that are facing a resurgence of the virus.

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World leaders back pandemic treaty idea for future emergencies

The leaders of 23 countries and the World Health Organization have backed an idea to create an international treaty that would help the world deal with future health emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic.

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WHO, 23 nations back creation of pandemic treaty to prepare for future health crises

World Health Organization on Tuesday backed an idea to create an international treaty that would help the world deal with future health emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic now ravaging the globe.The idea of such a treaty, which would ensure universal and equitable access to vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for pandemics, was floated by the chairman of European Union leaders Charles Michel at a G20 summit last November.

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Obama family matriarch has died in a Kenyan hospital at 99

NAIROBI – Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former U.S. President Barack Obama's Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday but did not disclose the cause of death. She was at least 99 years old.

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EU's top court rejects effort to force tougher climate rules

BRUSSELS – The European Union’s top court on Thursday rejected an effort by a Scandinavian youth group and eight families around the world to force the EU to set more ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that they were not “individually” affected by Europe’s climate policy.

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Kenya offers free Covid jabs to UN, diplomats: Report

Covid-19 jabs for its staff in Kenya even though the government there hasn't finished vaccinating its own vulnerable citizens.The offer, confirmed by UN and diplomatic sources, comes as Kenya battles a severe third wave of the virus and last week recorded its highest single-day death toll since the pandemic began.The UN Office at Nairobi (UNON), which has approximately 20,000 staff and dependants, said it had accepted the national government's offer of free AstraZeneca jabs but stressed only those most at risk would be eligible."It is not a wholesale vaccination of all UN staff members and their dependents," UNON spokesman Newton Kanhema told AFP on Sunday.Registration opened Sunday for UN staff wanting the jab, with vaccinations to

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Liz Mills takes big step for female basketball coaches

CAPE TOWN – Liz Mills’ decision to look more professional when coaching basketball games by wearing high-heeled leather boots instead of sneakers was somehow seen as provocation.

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Let's Talk: NFL free agents and traded players speak up

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Tanzania's opposition leader says president died of Covid-19

Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu has claimed that President John Magufuli had died from the coronavirus.

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Neb. officer shot in the face and head during struggle with alleged mall shoplifter

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Restocking photos: Florida woman works to bring Black representation to stock images

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Kenya Robinson remembers working on a marketing campaign and searching for a stock image of a Black woman wrapping her hands for kickboxing. With over 18,000 stock photos coming up in her search, she couldn’t find the look she needed.

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Happy birthday, Barbie! Check out what the iconic doll looked like when you were born

It’s Barbie’s 62nd birthday Tuesday!

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20 million Covid vaccine doses to 20 countries under COVAX

More than 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been provided to 20 countries under COVAX (COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access), the World Health Organization (WHO) announced yesterday.

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COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to African nations pick up speed

NAIROBI – More African countries received the long-awaited first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, with Kenya and Rwanda benefiting from the global COVAX initiative that aims to ensure doses for the world’s low-and middle-income nations.

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RHOA’s Cynthia Bailey Reveals How Kenya Moore ‘Inspired’ Her To Lose 20 Pounds She Re-Gained During COVID

The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Cynthia Bailey, 53, gained, lost and then re-gained 20 Lbs. during COVID, but she’s back on the loss wagon thanks to her co-star Kenya Moore, 50. “I was actually really inspired by Kenya because she’s much more into working out and fitness than I am,” Cynthia told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY during an episode of TVTalk on Instagram Live on Feb. 13. “She gained quite a bit of weight during the quarantine and so did I. I think we both gained about 20 pounds.”

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British troops on lockdown in Kenya after military exercise coronavirus outbreak

Hundreds of British troops are on lockdown in Kenya and living on rations after a coronavirus outbreak struck a military exercise.

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US missionary gets 15 years in federal prison for sex abuse at Kenya orphanage

PHILADELPHIA - A Christian missionary from Pennsylvania expressed remorse as he was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison Thursday for sexually assaulting girls at a Kenyan orphanage he led.Gregory Dow, 61, of Lancaster, and his family started the Dow Family Children’s Home near Boito, Kenya, in 2008 and operated it for about a decade. Some of his funding came from U.S.

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Amid Covid-19, govt extends ban on international flights till Feb-end

pic.twitter.com/6dUwhvaWr5Scheduled international passenger services have been suspended in India since March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Tributes to 'Bolton legend' and community leader after his death from Covid-19

Bolton from Kenya in 1967, studying at Smithills Grammar School and Portsmouth University. He eventually settled in the Farnworth area with his wife, Champa, and their two children, Krishan and Deepa.

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Madonna 'visits five countries in three weeks' despite global pandemic travel restrictions

Madonna has risked fury after reportedly visiting five countries in just a matter of weeks.

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A Kenyan health economist investigates the pandemic's puzzling course in his country

Linda NordlingScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.In 2007, Kenyan health economist Edwine Barasa had a long layover at Heathrow Airport. A fervent supporter of the London-based soccer club Arsenal, he saw a chance to fulfill a lifelong dream: visiting the club’s ancestral stadium in Highbury.

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New coronavirus variant appears to emerge in Nigeria, Africa's CDC says

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa’s top public health official said Thursday, but he added that further investigation was needed.The discovery could add to new alarm in the pandemic after similar variants were announced in Britain and South Africa, leading to the swift return of international travel restrictions and other measures just as the world enters a major holiday season."It’s a separate lineage from the UK and South Africa," the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, John Nkengasong, told reporters.

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'RHOA's Drew Sidora on Feuding With Kenya Moore and Airing Out Her Marriage Problems on TV (Exclusive)

Real Housewives of Atlanta co-stars might have to say (see: this interview with Kenya Moore), season 13's new peach holder Drew Sidora says she's not thirsty in the least. In fact, she claims she's hydrated.«I take care of myself,» Drew tells ET over video chat from her Georgia home, responding to Kenya describing her as parched.

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Murray throws TD, Cards end 3-game skid, beat red-hot Giants

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Haason Reddick had a franchise-record five sacks and three forced fumbles as the Arizona Cardinals spoiled the return of Giants quarterback Daniel Jones and moved back into an NFC playoff spot with a 26-7 victory over New York on Sunday.Kyler Murray added a touchdown pass as Arizona (7-6) snapped a three-game skid and ended a four-game winning streak that had moved the Giants (5-8) to the top of the NFC East. Mike Nugent came off the practice squad and added his first four field goals in more than a year, and Kenyan Drake scored on a 1-yard dive as Arizona won for only the second time in six games.

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'RHOA's Kenya Moore on ‘Stripper-gate,' Her Separation and Embracing Her COVID Curves (Exclusive)

Kenya Moore doesn't want to be called a «pot-stirrer» anymore. She says she's just doing her job.«This is what I don't like about my position on the show,» the Real Housewives of Atlanta star confesses to ET over video chat from her home in Georgia.

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Kenya Moore on Her Separation, Embracing Those COVID Curves and 'RHOA's 'Stripper-gate' (Exclusive)

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Doctors warn against Delhi's 'suicidal' half marathon amid Covid cases, air pollution

Delhi.Doctors say that the runners are taking a major health risk by competing in Sunday's New Delhi half-marathon.Women's marathon world record-holder Brigid Kosgei from Kenya and Ethiopia's two-time men's winner Andamlak Belihu are among the 49 elite athletes running the 21-kilometre (13.1 mile) race, while thousands of amateurs are taking part virtually, reports AFP.Organisers say the "highest level of safety-standards, with bio-secure zones" have been laid on for the race starting at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.But with New Delhi recording more than 500,000 virus cases, and air quality in the world's most polluted capital hovering between 'unhealthy' and 'hazardous', health experts said the athletes should think twice."It will be

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Ethiopia's PM vows 'final and crucial' offensive in Tigray

NAIROBI – Ethiopia’s prime minister says “the final and crucial” military operation will launch in the coming days against the government of the country’s rebellious northern Tigray region.Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in a social media post on Tuesday said a three-day deadline given to the Tigray region’s leaders and special forces “has expired today.”Abiy, last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, continues to reject international pleas for dialogue and de-escalation in the two-week conflict in the Horn of Africa that has spilled into neighboring Eritrea and sent more than 25,000 frightened Ethiopian refugees pouring into Sudan.Alarmed African neighbors including Uganda and Kenya are calling for a peaceful resolution, but Abiy’s government

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Environmental activists celebrate as Kenya spares sacred fig tree from destruction

Environmentalists in Kenya are celebrating this week, after winning a legal fight to protect a century-old fig tree in the nation’s capital. It was originally scheduled to be removed to make way for a highway.

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‘RHOA’s Kenya Moore Porsha Williams Are ‘Freaked Out’ After Crew Member Tests Positive For COVID-19

Season 13 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta was already winding down but things came to a stop due to the Coronavirus. Production has officially been shut down after a crew member tested positive for COVID-19 and the cast — especially those with kids — are feeling uneasy about it. “Kenya [Moore] and Porsha [Williams] were freaked out because they have kids,” a source close to production revealed EXCLUSIVELY to HollywoodLife. “Kenya in particular is very nervous.”

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‘Real Housewives Of Atlanta’ Production Is Shut Down After Crew Member Gets COVID-19

The ladies of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” are putting things on hold for the time being.

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'Real Housewives of Atlanta' Production Is Shut Down After Crew Member Gets COVID-19

are putting things on hold for the time being.ET has learned that production on Bravo's reality show has shut down for two weeks out of an abundance of caution after a member of the production team tested positive for the coronavirus. The show — which features Housewives Cynthia Bailey, Kandi Burruss, Porsha Williams,Kenya Moore and newcomer Drew Sidora — was filming its 13th season.Just last month, the first trailer for the upcoming season, premiering Dec.

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Kenya’s public minibuses help drive the COVID-19 prevention message home

Kenya’s brightly decorated minibuses (matatus) are an iconic fixture on the urban landscape and a backbone of public transport, alongside buses and taxis. Now, matatus are being used as awareness-raising ‘vehicles’ for COVID-19 prevention; they have been spray-painted with images of cyclists and people with masks featuring messages such as ‘We care for your safety’, ‘Keep Physical Distance’ and ‘Stop Coronavirus.

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Common Investigation Protocol for Investigating Suspected SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection

1. However, reinfection cannot be confirmed if clinical specimens from the initial coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) illness are not available.Reinfection is known to occur with other human coronaviruses (HCoVs) 2.

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From 'role models' to sex workers: Kenya's child labor rises

NAIROBI – The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or how many of those men used protection.Painfully, they recall times when they were sexually assaulted and then beaten up when they asked to be paid -- as little as $1 -- to help feed their families as jobs evaporated during the pandemic.From their rented room in Kenya’s capital, the girls say the risk of getting infected with the coronavirus or HIV does not weigh heavily on them in a time when survival is paramount.

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1 new imported case of COVID-19

There is one new imported case of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today. There are no new community cases.

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Pandemic driving children back to work, jeopardizing gains

JOTOLCHEN – The coronavirus pandemic is threatening the future of a generation of the world’s children, depriving them of schooling and sending them to work. Across the developing world, two decades of gains against child labor are eroding.With classrooms shuttered and parents losing their jobs, children are trading their ABC’s for the D of drudgery: Reading, writing and times tables are giving way to sweat, blisters and fading hopes for a better life.Instead of going to school, children in Kenya are grinding rocks in quarries.

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Murray runs for TD, throws another, Cardinals rip 0-5 Jets

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The Arizona Cardinals came to MetLife Stadium and like every other team this season found a cure-all for their woes with a game against a winless team from New York’s rotten football apple.Kyler Murray ran for a touchdown and threw another to DeAndre Hopkins as the Cardinals snapped a two-game losing streak with a 30-10 victory over the Jets, further putting coach Adam Gase's future in jeopardy after an 0-5 start.Murray had a 2-yard TD run and hit Hopkins on a 37-yard strike on a day the Cardinals (3-2) had 496 yards in total offense. Chase Edmonds scored on 29-yard run, Kenyan Drake tallied from a yard out and Zane Gonzalez kicked a 47-yard field goal.

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2 guilty of supporting deadly Westgate mall attack in Kenya

NAIROBI – A Kenyan court on Wednesday found two men guilty for supporting the 2013 attack on Nairobi’s upscale Westgate Mall that left 67 people dead.Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi acquitted a third suspect. The attack by four gunmen with the Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabab was the first large-scale assault in Kenya's capital.

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Brigid Kosgei defends London Marathon title

LONDON – Brigid Kosgei defied the rain and the gloom to defend her London Marathon title around a sodden St James’s Park on Sunday after a race staged six months later than planned and without any spectators due to the pandemic.The 26-year-old world record holder comfortably won her duel with fellow Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich, the world champion, who was eventually pipped for second by Sara Hall of the United States.Kosgei broke for home with seven miles to go leaving Chepngetich, who had looked the stronger in the mid-stages of the race, far behind.The pair were a minute ahead of their nearest challenger at the halfway mark, and looked on course to trouble the women’s-only world record of two hours 17 minutes and one second.But as the rain

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Elite women cite training limits in London Marathon buildup

Kenyan runner Brigid Kosgei isn't expecting to lower her world record in Sunday's London Marathon, not with her training limited by the coronavirus pandemic.Kosgei and challenger Ruth Chepngetich said Thursday that pandemic restrictions in Kenya prevented them from training in groups for long periods.“It affected most of us in Kenya,” the 26-year-old Kosgei said.Kosgei topped her London victory last year by winning the Chicago Marathon in a world record time of 2 hours, 14 minutes, 4 seconds.“It's not like in Chicago, but I will try my best," she said, declining to offer predictions of a time. “Due to this pandemic, I cannot say I will run this and this.

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South Africa reopens to international flights amid virus

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa has reopened to international flights, ending a more than six-month ban on international travel that was part of its restrictions to combat the spread of COVID-19.A Lufthansa plane from Germany was the first international flight to arrive Thursday morning at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport.

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International flights to remain suspended till 31 Oct amid Covid-19: DGCA

international commercial passenger services to and from India has been extended till October 31.The announcement came moments after the Ministry of Home Affairs released a fresh set of guidelines under the Unlock 5 plan in which it mentioned that international air travel of passengers will not be permitted in the current phase of Unlock, except as permitted by MHA.However, to allow gradual movement of passenger traffic, 'Transport Bubble' agreements have been signed with a number of countries.Earlier today, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has added more destinations, including Bhutan and Kenya, to the list of countries where Indians can fly.

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1 person dies as Nairobi hospital workers strike in Kenya

NAIROBI – A man has died outside an emergency ward of Kenya's largest referral hospital after he was not treated for hours by striking staff, a witness said.Pay raises for Kenyatta National Hospital workers were approved by the government in 2012 but the workers say they have not received the increases.Evans Nyabuto, a motorcycle taxi driver in Nairobi's Kawangware area, was not feeling well Sunday evening and by Monday morning he was vomiting blood, said colleague Christopher Muvya.Local clinics referred Nyabuto to the hospital but when he arrived no one attended to him for more than two hours and those they approached turned them away, said Muvya.“A worker told me they are on strike so there will be no help from them.

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Characteristics of Persons Who Died with COVID-19 — United States, February 12–May 18, 2020

On July 10, 2020, this report was posted online as an MMWR Early Release.Please note: This report has been corrected.Jonathan M. Wortham, MD1; James T.

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Irish charities join forces in virus appeal for world's poorest nations

Six well-known charities have joined forces to make a public appeal for help in tackling Covid-19 in some of the world's poorest countries.

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Hannah Gadsby, Howie Mandel among headliners for Just For Laughs’ free online festival

Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, Chelsea Lately alum Jo Koy and viral Donald Trump impersonator Sarah Cooper.Also among the highlights are Nailed It! host Nicole Byer, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt actor Titus Burgess, Late Night with Seth Meyers writer/performer Amber Ruffin and the cast of Canada’s Drag Race.JFL also announced that Kevin Hart’s Laugh out Loud network will be the official programming partner for the festival, which will include special programming as part of the Comedy in Color franchise.Online audiences can tune in at http://www.hahaha.com/en/2020festival.

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Just For Laughs Unveils Lineup for Pandemic-Era Virtual Comedy Festival

The Just For Laughs comedy festival, run by a consortium including ICM Partners, Howie Mandel and Bell Media, has unveiled stand-up talent picks for its first-ever virtual event in October. Mandel, Hannah Gadsby, Kenya Barris, Tituss Burgess, Sarah Cooper, Andy Kindler and Amber Ruffin are among the first wave of stand-up talent announced to perform online after Just For Laughs postponed its 2020 edition amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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