Under Taiwan's previous rules, pilots only needed to quarantine for three days while flight attendants needed to quarantine for five -- reportedly t ... ( read original story ...)
Bahrain’s prince-prime minister receives PRRD’s special envoy
Special envoy and Presidential Assistant on Foreign Affairs Robert Borje (left) had an audience from His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa on December 31, 2020. VETERAN guard Mark ... ( read original story ...)
5 things to know for January 6: Senate runoffs, Congress, Covid, Jacob Blake, Qatar
Here's what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get "5 Things You Need to Know Today" delivered to your inbox daily. ) 1. Senate runoffs The Rev. Raphael Warnock ... ( read original story ...)
Armenia Buries Its Dead but Can’t Put to Rest the Horrors of Recent War
Armenia’s disastrous loss to Azerbaijan in the six-week war over Nagorno-Karabakh has left another generation scarred—and a future conflict more likely. ( read original story ...)
Journalists in Armenia Must Dig Deep for the Facts: Official Pronouncements Contradictory
During the 44 days of hostilities, the Armenian government propaganda machine kept propagating the slogan "we will win", urging people to exclusively follow official news reports. As a result, a large ... ( read original story ...)
Warnock, Georgia’s first Black senator, honors mother and ‘the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton’
The Rev. Raphael Warnock, who will be Georgia's first Black senator, pointed in his victory speech to his mother's work in the 1950s picking cotton and tobacco. ( read original story ...)
Georgia’s Gift to Joe Biden
The Democratic success in the South is poised to change the balance of power in Washington and strengthen the Biden presidency. ( read original story ...)
Black Georgia voters’ high turnout helped solidify a historic win, organizers say
Black Georgia voters showed up in droves for the state's pair of US Senate runoffs and voting rights groups say the high turnout plus aggressive organizing efforts helped solidify a historic win. ( read original story ...)
Georgia Senate runoffs: What’s left to count
Democrat Jon Ossoff on Wednesday morning declared victory in his Georgia Senate runoff against Republican Sen. David Perdue, who vowed to "exhaust" all legal options to make sure only "legally cast" ... ( read original story ...)
How Georgia Made Senate History
The state’s Democrats did everything right in the run-up to Tuesday’s US Senate runoff, in which Rev. Raphael Warnock, against all odds, defeated GOP Senator Kelly Loeffler. I ... ( read original story ...)