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by Cyril JULIEN Agence France Presse ATLANTA, United States (AFP) — A 21-year-old suspect described as a sex addict was charged Wednesday with murdering eight people in spas around the US city of Atlanta, in triple attacks that have deeply shaken the Asian-American community. Police said Robert Aaron Long has denied a racist motive to Tuesday’s attacks — in which six of the victims were women of Asian origin — but that they had […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Violence against people of Asian descent “must end,” former US president Barack Obama said Wednesday after a series of shootings in the Atlanta area left six Asian women dead. “Although the shooter’s motive is not yet clear, the identity of the victims underscores an alarming rise in anti-Asian violence that must end,” Obama said on Twitter. A total of eight people were killed in three separate attacks Tuesday at spas […]
by Elijah NOUVELAGE with Camille CAMDESSUS in Washington Agence France Presse ATLANTA, United States (AFP) — Six Asian women were among eight people shot and killed at spas around the US city of Atlanta Tuesday, with a white man in custody on suspicion of staging all three attacks, police said. The shootings came with many Asian-Americans already on edge following a recent spike in hate crimes against the community, and triggered immediate fears that […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) Eight people were killed in shootings at three different spas in the US state of Georgia Tuesday and a 21-year-old male suspect was in custody, police and local media reported, though it was unclear if the attacks were related. Four people were killed in a shooting at Young’s Asian Massage near Acworth, a suburb of Georgia’s capital city Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, citing the Cherokee County sheriff’s office. “Shooting […]
MONTREAL, Canada ( AFP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday urged Canadians to take the AstraZeneca vaccine, in response to reports of hesitancy after several nations halted its rollout over fears of blood clots and other side effects. “Our experts and scientists have spent an awful lot of time making sure that every vaccine approved in Canada is both safe and effective,” Trudeau told a news conference in Montreal, where he toured a Covid-19 […]
LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — Portugal has followed the lead of other EU countries and stopped rolling out AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine after reports of “serious but rare” side effects, health chief Graca Freitas said on Monday. The decision was taken “as a precaution” pending advice from the EU’s regulator, said Freitas, head of Portugal’s public health agency the DGS. The European Medicines Agency will hold a special meeting on Thursday to decide whether measures are needed […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York, the US city most bereaved by the coronavirus, paid a moving tribute Sunday to its 30,258 dead, one year after the start of the pandemic. “More New Yorkers lost than in World War Two, Vietnam, Hurricane Sandy and 9/11 put together. Every family touched in some way, and for so many families a pain, a pain that is raw,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a live […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Joe Biden sidestepped questions Sunday on whether New York Governor Andrew Cuomo should resign over sexual misconduct allegations, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the state leader should “look inside his heart” to decide if he can govern. The pair stopped short of joining a growing list of other politicians, including many fellow Democrats, in demanding Cuomo’s resignation. Exiting Marine One Sunday, Biden told a reporter that “the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden will order authorities across the entire United States to lift priority restrictions on people wanting to get Covid-19 vaccinations by the start of May, an official said Thursday. “He will direct states that no later than May 1, all Americans need to be eligible to receive the vaccine,” said a senior administration official, who asked not to be identified. Biden will discuss his plans in a primetime […]
by Sebastian Smith WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden signed a massive $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill Thursday ahead of giving a national address where he was set to urge “hope” on the first anniversary of the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Biden called the American Rescue Plan “historic” as he signed the package into law in the Oval Office. The bill, passed by Congress earlier this week, dishes out $1,400 payments to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A person who has had Covid and receives a single dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines is equally or better protected than someone who never had Covid and got two doses, according to a study. “We hope this data… will help shape more nuanced vaccine policy,” co-author Viviana Simon, a professor of microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York told AFP Thursday. For […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US biotech firm Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine was shown to be 100 percent protective against severe cases of the disease, including hospitalization and death, the company said Thursday following trials. But its efficacy against the South African variant fell markedly when including mild and moderate cases, results showed. The results announced Thursday were from final analyses, following interim results that were announced in late January. In a Phase 3 trial in […]
