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Army takes custody of Gorge shooting suspect

MOSES LAKE — The Army has taken custody of the soldier accused of killing two people and injuring several others d…

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: Masks key to keeping Japan's caseload low

TOKYO (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic came by ship to Japan in February — a foreboding harbinger for a world that had not yet come to grips with the disaster to come.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: China's state power crushes COVID-19

BEIJING (AP) — Workers have returned to factories, students are back in the classroom and once again long lines form outside popular hot pot restaurants. In major cities, wearing a surgical mask — though no longer …

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
Suspect in Japan anime studio fire charged with murder

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors formally filed murder charges Wednesday against a suspect in a deadly fire at a Kyoto anime studio last year, after it was determined that he has recovered enough from his own seve…

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: South Africa acts quickly, dodges disaster

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At a popular cafe in Johannesburg's Soweto area, owner Benedict Somi Vilakazi liked to tell foreign visitors how nearby Vilakazi Street was named after his grandfather, who defied racial discrim…

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: Kenya's youth suffer collateral damage

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The accepted wisdom was that young people had less to fear from COVID-19. But in Kenya, youth suffered from the pandemic in other ways.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: A virus widens Israel's religious rifts

BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — When Israel went into its second nationwide coronavirus lockdown in September, most of the country quickly complied. But in some ultra-Orthodox areas, synagogues were packed, mourners thron…

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: No longer in viral denial, Iran struggles

At the start, Iranian officials downplayed COVID-19 — denying the mounting toll of infections, refusing to close mosques, making half-hearted gestures at locking down businesses.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: Brazil's leader scoffs, and toll rises

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The story of COVID-19 in Brazil is the story of a president who insists the pandemic is no big deal.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: Spanish system fails, and the elderly die

MADRID (AP) — Patiently lining up, distanced, to buy bread. Watching grandchildren grow via screens. Cheering for a soccer team miles away from the stadium. Gathering for dinner, in reduced groups, at 7 p.m. — earl…

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: India struggles to save lives, economy

NEW DELHI (AP) — India is caught between two calamities — a relentless pandemic that is ravaging the country and a hollowed-out economy that is without precedent.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: Italy becomes Europe's viral epicenter

ROME (AP) — On the morning of Feb. 20, Dr. Annalisa Malara went to work at the public hospital in tiny Codogno, Italy, and broke protocol by ordering up a coronavirus test for a patient.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
A pandemic atlas: Peru's death toll leaves a grieving nation

Each day at the height of the pandemic in Peru, Ronald Marín visited a crowded, dusty cemetery to offer final prayers for dozens of victims of COVID-19, their coffins wrapped in plastic like suitcases preparing for…

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
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