The World Health Organization is calling for a halt on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September, its head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, as the gap between vaccinations in wealthy and poor countries widens. This report produced by Jillian Kitchener. Reuters – WHO is calling for a moratorium on boosters until at least the end…
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Our modern understanding of trigonometry harks back to ancient Greek astronomers studying the movement of celestial bodies through the night sky. But in 2017, I showed the ancient Babylonians likely developed their own kind of “proto-trigonometry” more than 1,000 years before the Greeks. So why were the Babylonians interested in right-angled triangles? What did they use them for? The Conversation…
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Hawai – JENNIFER KELLEHER Joshua Spriestersbach was enjoying birthday cake on April 12, 2020, in Danby, Vt. The Hawaii Innocence Project says, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, Spriestersbach was wrongfully arrested for someone else’s crime and then committed to a state hospital for more than two years because officials mixed him up with someone else. Hawaii officials wrongly arrested a homeless…
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The divorce of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates has been finalized.SEATTLE – Elaine ThompsonIn this Feb. 1, 2019, Bill and Melinda French Gates pose together in Kirkland, Wash. The divorce of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates has been finalized. The Microsoft co-founder and his wife announced in May 2021 they were ending their 27-year marriage and on Monday,…
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Firefighting planes from Spain and Croatia joined the battle against wildfires raging for a seventh day near Turkey’s southern resorts amid increasing calls for more aerial support and sharp criticism of the government’s response. MARMARIS, Turkey – Mehmet Emin and Tuvan Gumrukcu Nine fires were blazing on Tuesday, fanned by strong winds, temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104°F), and low…
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Tokyo – MARK LONG Christina Dressel, left, mother of Caeleb Dressel, and Meghan Dressel, his wife, both fall down Friday, July 30, 2021, in Orlando, Fla., as they react as Dressel’s win in the 100-meter butterfly in swimming at the Tokyo Olympics Dressel’s family was watching the Olympics live broadcast at the Olympic Family & Friends Experience at Universal Orlando.…
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