February 2020

Coronavirus: ‘Narrowing window’ to contain outbreak, WHO says

Image copyright EPA Image caption Lebanon has confirmed its first case – a woman returning from the Iranian city of Qom The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern at the number of coronavirus cases with no clear link to China or other confirmed cases. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s comments follow Iran’s […]

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FreshDirect, After Broken Eggs and Angry Customers, Stages a Comeback

About a year and a half ago, longtime patrons of the pioneering grocery delivery service FreshDirect started complaining that orders were arriving hours late. There were broken eggs and spoiled fruit. One customer reported that she had paid $200 for groceries — only to receive nothing but seltzer and a loaf of bread. The source of

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‘Parasite’ Distributor Fires Back After Trump Criticizes Oscars Triumph

The U.S. distributors of the South Korean blockbuster “Parasite” offered a simply worded response to President Donald Trump’s criticism of its history-making Oscars triumph. Directed by Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite” became the first non-English-language movie to be named Best Picture earlier this month. Trump is evidently not a fan of the film, however, telling supporters at a Colorado rally on

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Groups want cows corralled to protect jumping mouse habitat

Environmentalists say U.S. land managers are failing to keep livestock and wild horses out of streams and other wetlands in Arizona’s White Mountains, resulting in damage to habitat that a rare species of mouse depends on By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press February 21, 2020, 5:58 PM 4 min read ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Environmentalists have

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