(Reuters) – Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of slain President John F. Kennedy, who as U.S. ambassador to Ireland in the 1990s played a pivotal role in the Northern Irish peace process, died on Wednesday at age 92. Kennedy Smith died at her home in Manhattan, her daughter Kym told Reuters, declining give
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(Reuters) – Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of slain President John F. Kennedy, who as U.S. ambassador to Ireland in the 1990s played a pivotal role in the Northern Irish peace process, died on Wednesday at age 92, the New York Times reported. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama awards the Medal of
BERLIN (Reuters) – Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is assumed to be dead and an imprisoned German child abuser is the murder suspect, a German prosecutor said on Thursday McCann vanished from her bedroom on May 3 during a family vacation in the Algarve while her
BERLIN (Reuters) – Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is dead, Germany’s prosecutor said on Thursday after identifying an imprisoned German child abuser as a murder suspect. FILE PHOTO: Kate McCann, whose daughter Madeleine went missing during a family holiday to Portugal in 2007, attends a news
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Genetic sampling of the Dead Sea Scrolls has tested understandings that the 2,000-year-old artefacts were the work of a fringe Jewish sect, and shed light on the drafting of scripture around the time of Christianity’s birth. A fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls that underwent genetic sampling to shed light on the
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Larry Kramer, an author, playwright and film producer who helped shape U.S. healthcare policy with his early advocacy of a national response to AIDS when it first emerged in the 1980s, died on Wednesday at 84. FILE PHOTO: AIDS activist and author Larry Kramer poses for a portrait in his apartment
FILE PHOTO: AIDS activist and author Larry Kramer poses for a portrait in his apartment in New York, U.S., June 24, 2019.REUTERS/Lucas Jackson NEW YORK (Reuters) – Author Larry Kramer, whose early advocacy for a national response to AIDS as the disease first emerged in the 1980s helped raise awareness and shape healthcare policy into
(Reuters) – Becoming a nurse in 2018 was a dream come true for William Coddington. Nurse William Coddington wears PPE inside JFK Medical Center-North Campus in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., in this undated selfie provided by his family. Courtesy of Ronald Coddington/Handout via REUTERS He loved helping people and feeling needed at his West
(Reuters) – A jet from the Canadian air force’s Snowbirds aerobatics team that was on a tour to lift spirits during the coronavirus outbreak crashed in Kamloops, British Columbia, on Sunday, killing one crew member and seriously injuring the other, defense officials said. Video shot by a witness showed two of the team’s Canadair Tutor
FILE PHOTO: Du Wei speaks during a news briefing in Kiev, Ukraine August 30, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo JERUSALEM (Reuters) – China’s ambassador to Israel was found dead in his home in a Tel Aviv suburb on Sunday, an Israeli police spokesman said. He did not comment on the cause of death of ambassador Du
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a meeting on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak response with North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Colorado Governor Jared Polis in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 13, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday a $3 trillion-plus coronavirus
KABUL/JALALABAD (Reuters) – Gunmen disguised as police attacked a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, killing 16 people including two newborn babies from a maternity clinic run by the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders. Afghan security forces stand guard outside Dasht-e-Barchi Hospital which came under attack in Kabul, Afghanistan May 12, 2020.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – One person was killed after a fire broke out on Saturday at a Moscow hospital treating patients infected with the new coronavirus, the authorities said. The hospital, located in northwestern Moscow, had been designated by the authorities as one of the medical facilities treating coronavirus patients in the Russian capital. The emergency
(Reuters) – A person was killed late Thursday after being struck by a plane landing at an airport in Austin, Texas, officials said. The person was struck and killed on runway 17R by a landing aircraft on Thursday evening, the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas said on Twitter, adding that the incident was being probed.
MONROVIA (Reuters) – Liberia’s assistant mines minister said two miners had died in a mine collapse in western Liberia early on Tuesday, although a local mayor estimated scores more were likely killed based on the number of people missing. The collapse happened in a mining hub in Grand Cape Mount County, Assistant Mines Minister Emmanuel
CARACAS (Reuters) – Human rights groups on Saturday called for an investigation into a prison riot in western Venezuela that left 46 people dead and 75 injured, and questioned authorities’ explanation that the incident was linked to a failed escape attempt. Members of the Bolivarian national guard stand outside Los Llanos penitentiary after a riot
BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – The Belgian region of Wallonia said on Thursday that tonnes of fish were killed in a river by pollution that flowed across the border from France and accused the French authorities of being too slow to issue a warning. A view shows floating dead fish in the Escaut river in Valenciennes, France,
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California recorded 115 deaths from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, the state’s deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday. Newsom said the deaths came as the number of hospitalizations and intensive care unit patients suffering from COVID-19 dropped slightly. Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by
NEW YORK (Reuters) – There are 48 bodies in the basement of the funeral home in Harlem. Forty are in cardboard boxes, ready for cremation. The other eight are in the refrigerator, to be embalmed and buried. It will be weeks or months before they get either. Alisha Narvaez, 36, the manager and Nicole Warring,
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese police have reported that 11 people whose deaths were deemed to be unnatural in the past month subsequently tested positive for the new coronavirus, media said on Tuesday. A man wears a face mask in a bus stop in front of the Shinagawa station during the rush hour after the government
TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) – A French military helicopter crashed on Wednesday near Tarbes, in southwestern France, killing two people and injuring five, local authorities said. The helicopter was a Cougar from the 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment (5th RHC) of Pau, they said. A probe was launched to determine the cause of the accident. Reporting by
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City officials have hired contract laborers to bury the dead in its potter’s field on Hart Island as the city’s daily death rate from the coronavirus epidemic has reached grim new records in each of the last three days. Drone pictures show bodies being buried on New York’s Hart
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government’s worst case scenario envisages a coronavirus death toll of 50,000 if self isolation is not fully adhered to, but the United Kingdom is not right now on course for a toll of that scale, a source familiar with the government’s emergency discussions said. Medical workers with a patient in
A car of a mortuary, allegedly carrying the corpse of a person who died of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), enter to an ice rink, which will be used as a morgue, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid, Spain, March 24, 2020. REUTERS/Juan Medina MADRID (Reuters) – The number of new coronavirus cases in Spain
COLOMBO/ISLAMABAD, March 21 (Reuters) – One prisoner died and three others were injured when fighting broke out on Saturday in a Sri Lankan jail over rumors of coronavirus, as governments across South Asia tightened restrictions on movement to try to stem infections. A worker cleans the hand railings at an empty shopping mall amid concerns
(Reuters) – Roger Mayweather, trainer to nephew and champion boxer Floyd Mayweather, has died at 58 after a long battle with diabetes, his camp said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (L) of the U.S. works on his timing with his uncle and trainer Roger Mayweather at the
LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s meat industry must adapt to the challenges posed by climate change and growing demand for plant-based alternatives or face ruin, according to a group of investors managing $20 trillion in assets. FILE PHOTO: Five-week-old weanlings at the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment in Glenlea, Manitoba, Canada August 14,
Police officers work outside the Tacubaya metro station after several people were injured when two trains collided in the underground metro network, in Mexico City, Mexico March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Luis Cortes MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least one person was killed and 41 injured when two trains collided on Mexico City’s underground metro network late
WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia said on Monday that 86 dusky dolphins, including two calves just days old, had been found dead on a remote beach and it had launched an investigation into what happened. Marine biologist Kolette Grobler estimated that the mammals had been dead for about a week before they were found on Friday
LONDON (Reuters) – British police shot dead a knifeman in central London late on Sunday but the incident is not being treated as terrorism. Police on patrol in Westminster noticed a man acting suspiciously at 2325 GMT on Sunday. When challenged he produced two knives and was shot. “The man was pronounced dead at the
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