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Bad sign from Biden administration: Syria slams fatal US raid on Iraq border
Feb 27, 2021 15:45Iran has condemned as a flagrant violation of human rights and international law the illegal and aggressive attacks by American terrorist forces on areas in eastern Syria. In a statement on Friday night, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh stressed that such attacks against Syria were a continuation of Israel’s unabated aggression on the Arab country’s territories.
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Anti-immigrant racism complicates COVID-19 vaccine rollout in South US
Feb 27, 2021 14:06As Tennessee, like other states, embarks on the daunting task of inoculating millions of residents against COVID-19, many health officials find their mission complicated by a pervasive mistrust of government and law enforcement among unauthorized immigrants, a population estimated at 11 million across the US.
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Unrepentant about his Cancún trip, Ted Cruz blames media for publicizing it
Feb 26, 2021 17:56Speaking during an appearance on conservative radio host Dana Loesch’s program, Ted Cruz, who had left Texas with his family to travel to Cancún, Mexico, as millions of residents suffered extreme temperatures without heat, electricity and running water in the wake of a brutal winter storm, said that the media’s coverage of his travels were unfair.
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Pandemic may have left 265 million people with acute food shortages in 2020
Feb 26, 2021 06:11According to a United Nations World Food Program (WFP) report, COVID-19 might have left up to 265 million people with acute food shortages in 2020.
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'No safe amount': Environmentalists sound alarm over Texas refineries' release of hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants during storm
Feb 26, 2021 05:54Texas oil refineries released hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants including benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide into the air as they scrambled to shut down during last week's deadly winter storm, Reuters reported recently.
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Over 33 percent of US low-paid workers lost jobs during pandemic
Feb 25, 2021 12:38About half of American workers rely on employer-provided health insurance. So, by last June, as Covid-19 caused joblessness to skyrocket, nearly eight million working adults and nearly seven million of their dependents lost their coverage once they became unemployed.
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2020 Global Food Security Index shows overall decline in food security
Feb 25, 2021 12:33The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released on Tuesday Feb. 23 the ninth annual Global Food Security Index (GFSI) sponsored by Corteva, which measures the underlying drivers of food security in 113 countries, based on the factors of affordability, availability, quality and safety, and natural resources and resilience.
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Fauci laments 'historic' COVID toll as US nears 500,000 deaths
Feb 25, 2021 06:32As the US approached half a million COVID-19 deaths, the country’s top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, struggled for words to convey the grim magnitude of the death toll from the pandemic.
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As millions in Texas lack safe water, Sunrise Movement rallies at state capitol demanding Green New Deal
Feb 24, 2021 14:15While millions of Texans continued living without safe drinking water and many faced storm damage and massive electricity bills, youth leaders with the Sunrise Movement rallied at the state capitol in Austin, using the current conditions across the Lone Star State to bolster their demand for a Green New Deal.
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COVID aid has been too small to pull millions of American families out of severe hardship
Feb 24, 2021 14:09Despite trillions of dollars in government assistance, about two-thirds of American families that suffered job losses or reduced wages during the pandemic still reported facing serious financial hardship. Many people were struggling — and still are — just to pay for basic necessities, like food and rent.