M6.5 quake hits northeastern Japan, no tsunami warning issued

TOKYO (Kyodo) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 rattled northeastern Japan on early Monday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the weather agency said. The quake at 2:23 a.m. with its focus at a depth of 43 kilometers … Read More

Japan snowfall leaves thousands without power, vehicles stranded

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called an emergency meeting after 10,000 households lost electricity and 1,000 vehicles got stuck on roads The heavy snowfall was centred on Niigata and Gunma prefectures, which have had about 2 metres of snow over three … Read More

Hunger study predicts 168,000 pandemic-linked child deaths

FILE – In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 file photo, two-year-old Akon Morro, who is anemic and suffers from edema due to malnutrition, sits on the floor of a feeding center in Al Sabah Children’s Hospital in the capital Juba, … Read More

Devastated by Covid, Latin America is now unprepared for vaccine

With eight percent of the globe’s population and 30 percent of its Covid-19 deaths, Latin America is facing the pandemic’s next phase – mass vaccination – with alarm. HEALTHCARE WORKERS OF THE SAN JOSÉ HOSPITAL MOBILE UNIT TREAT VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS AT A CLOSED … Read More

Small Business And Jobs Smashed By COVID-19 Lockdowns

Analysis by free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs of recently released data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals that over 230,000 small businesses are expected to close and 470,000 jobs will be permanently destroyed once COVID-19 support … Read More

USDA reports show drop in domestic production, global stocks

A pair of reports from Department of Agriculture economists project a drop in American grain and oilseed production and overseas stocks on hand, prolonging a bump in commodity prices. The forecasts — monthly Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates reports — … Read More

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