CLEVELAND (AP) — Even if the NBA doesn’t resume this season, and at this point no one knows for sure, the Cleveland Cavaliers believe it’s time to start getting ready for the next one. “Any minute that we can get working with each other is beneficial to us,” Cavs coach J.B. Bickerstaff said Wednesday. Cleveland […]
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2021 Oceania Athletics Championships to be hosted in Vanuatu
PORT VILA, 07 MAY 2020 (VANUATU DAILY POST)—The 2021 Oceania Athletics Championships are to be conducted at Korman Stadium, Port Vila, Vanuatu. Oceania Athletics is currently working with the Local Organising Committee and the Vanuatu Government to finalise the dates of the Championships which are planned to be held during the month of May. Once […]
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Pandemic poses special threat to indigenous health, culture
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — In Indonesia’s easternmost province, felled trees are stacked to block a road that leads to Papuan villages. On the Thai-Myanmar border, the Karen people have also made makeshift barricades and marked them with signs warning visitors away. Across the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has left indigenous peoples at particular risk because […]
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Foreigners on the frontlines of pandemic in Arab Gulf states
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As she was treated for COVID-19 in a hospital isolation ward in Kuwait City, Amnah Ibraheem wanted to credit those caring for her. The nurses were all South Asian, the radiologist was African, another of her doctors was Egyptian. The only fellow Kuwaiti she saw, briefly, was a lone […]
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Taiwan, Guam, CNMI and other partners join hands in fighting COVID-19
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Taiwan Adventist Hospital held a videoconference on May 6, 2020 to share Taiwan’s response to the COVID-19. Guam Governor Lou Leon Guerrero and CNMI Governor Ralph Torres together with more than 100 health experts and medical personnel from Guam, CNMI, Hawaii, California, Washington State, […]
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NZ Foreign minister Peters risks wrath of China over Taiwan comments
WELLINGTON, 07 MAY 2020 (NZ HERALD) — Foreign Minister Winston Peters is courting fresh problems in New Zealand’s diplomatic relationship with China by publicly backing Taiwan’s bid to participate again in the World Health Organisation. Speaking to reporters at Parliament, he was asked if he supported Taiwan rejoining the WHO as championed by the United […]