Heart drugs and all kinds of other medicines have disappeared from drug stores across Lebanon. The drug shortage is the latest in a series of problems in the country, which was once a center for medical services, banking and real estate. 心脏病药物...
California Wine Industry Makes Changes After Wildfires Harvest season in Northern California's wine country is what dream marriage ceremonies are made of. Its colorful crops and golden sunsets give the ceremonies the beautiful imagery that brings mil...
Brian Contreras represents the worst fears of the profitable business travel industry. Contreras is an account executive at an American technology company. He is used to traveling often for work. But now, he and thousands of others are working from h...
Filimon heard the sound of heavy weapons in his Ethiopian border town, and he started to run. Filimon is an Ethiopian refugee who spoke to the Associated Press, or AP. He is now in Sudan. He does not know if his wife and two small children are trappe...
On November 13, 1970, a young air force officer from the coastal hills of Syria launched an operation to overthrow the country's government. Hafez Assad and his supporters were successful. They took control of the government in a bloodless coup. Fift...
Pandemic Puts New Fears and Trauma on War-Scarred Bosnians Memories of the Bosnian War are shaping Zdenka Sutalo and the way she thinks about the novel coronavirus. The 58-year-old woman attends group therapy meetings to work through her painful memo...
Study Suggests Gorillas Become More Violent in Crowded Forest 研究表明族群增多使大猩猩变得更加暴力 Gorillas are very social animals -- up to a point. Crowded areas can make silverbacks more violent, scientists say. 某种程度上讲，...
Matilde Ical Chen was cooking over a wood fire when the landslide hit the Guatemalan Mayan town of Queja last week. 上周山体滑坡袭击危地马拉的Queja镇时，马蒂尔德卡尔陈正在柴火上做饭。 Her mother, sister and grandparents...
La Nia Weather Expected to Continue into 2021 The United Nations weather agency says a continuing weather event places some countries at risk of weather-related problems. The World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, predicts La Ni?a will continue t...
Does weather affect the spread of the coronavirus outside a building, in the open air? 天气是否会影响新冠病毒在户外露天情况下的传播？ Not really, experts say. 专家称不会。 The World Health Organization (WHO) says the viru...
The vacation cruise industry has accepted it cannot restart operations this year. 假日邮轮行业已经接受了今年无法重新运营的事实。 Major cruise lines Carnival and Norwegian recently extended a halt on cruises through the end of t...
This will be the second general election since the end of military rule in 2015. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) is expected to win again on the strength of its leader's strong popularity. Hnin, however, says the Nobel Peace Pr...
Nepal says it is reopening to foreign visitors seeking to climb and trek the country's famous mountains. The country has been closed to foreign visitors for the past seven months because of the coronavirus crisis. Nepal's tourism industry has suffere...
Hospitals Competing for Nurses as US Coronavirus Cases Increase The coronavirus pandemic is increasing across the United States as infections and hospitalizations rise. This has resulted in a shortage of nurses, especially in rural areas and at small...
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci resigned on Thursday to face war crimes charges brought by a court in The Hague in the Netherlands. The 52-year-old leader said he had decided to step down to protect the integrity of the presidency. The charges are for...
