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Ghana is the first country to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX program. Above: The vaccines are unloaded at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra on February 24.

Ghana Greets Historic Vaccine Delivery With A Dose Of Skepticism

3:35pm March 04, 2021

It's the first country to receive free vaccines from the COVAX program. But that shipment of 600,000 can't protect a nation of 30 million. And conspiracy theories about the vaccine are swirling.

Scotch whisky producers are welcoming news of a breakthrough on tariffs, which came as the industry adjusted to both Brexit and then the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, an employee rolls a whisky barrel at the Glenturret Distillery in Crieff, central Scotland, l

Scotch Whisky, English Cheese Prices Could Ease As U.S. Halts Tariffs

10:43am March 04, 2021

by Bill Chappell

Scotch whisky and other goods have been subject to a 25% tariff. The levies cost companies hundreds of millions of dollars in lost exports, according to the Scotch industry.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been named the new head of the World Trade Organization. An economist, she previously served as Nigeria's finance minister and as managing director of the World Bank.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Makes History As WTO's First African And Female Leader

11:52am February 15, 2021

by Brakkton Booker

As she takes the helm of the World Trade Organization, the former Nigerian finance minister faces challenges from COVID-19 response to navigating trade frictions between the U.S. and China.

Italian papers show the chaotic scenes from Washington, with one headline declaring "The End." Others proclaim, "Gunshots on Democracy" and "USA – Day of the Coup." World leaders are reacting with shock and dismay to the assault on the Capitol.

World News

'Disgraceful': World Leaders React To Pro-Trump Extremists Storming U.S. Capitol

10:09am January 07, 2021

by Reese Oxner

Historians in Italy compare Wednesday's events to the rise of fascism. "Violence is incompatible with the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms," Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said.

A seized South Korean-flagged tanker is escorted by Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats in the Persian Gulf. This comes as Tehran is enriching nuclear fuel to 20% purity.

World News

Iran Reportedly Boosts Nuclear Fuel Enrichment To 20%

11:16am January 04, 2021

by Peter Kenyon

The move is likely to increase tensions during President Trump's final weeks in office. Separately, Iran seized a South Korean oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, South Korea said Monday.

Health care worker Demetra Ransom comforts a patient in the COVID-19 ward at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas. on Dec. 4. The U.S. has surpassed 20 million confirmed coronavirus cases.

U.S. Surpasses 20 Million Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

6:41pm January 01, 2021

by Reese Oxner

In less than two months, the country doubled its total number of infections, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Sandra Lindsay (left) a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester on Monday in New York.

'Healing Is Coming': U.S. Starts Vaccinating People Against COVID-19

1:40pm December 14, 2020

by Bill Chappell

"I feel like healing is coming," New York critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay said after receiving her shot. "I hope this marks the beginning to the end of a very painful time in our history."

A map of Texas is displayed on a parking spot at the Old Glory Memorial in El Paso, Texas, last year.

National

Why Do So Many Places In Texas Have 'Negro' In Their Name, Despite A Law Against It?

5:57pm December 11, 2020

by Reese Oxner

Texas lawmakers voted to remove the word "Negro" from geographic features in 1991. But a federal board blocked the proposed name changes, and since then, almost none of them have been changed.

A bar chart showing total confirmed and potential vaccine dose purchases per country, as of Nov. 30.

How Rich Countries Are 'Hoarding' The World's Vaccines, In Charts

6:52pm December 03, 2020

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Experts say low-risk people in the U.S. will likely be immunized before many high-risk people in poor countries.

Boxes containing vials of remdesivir at a pharmaceutical company in Giza, Egypt.

WHO Trial Finds Remdesivir Has 'No Meaningful Effect' In COVID-19 Patients

3:14pm November 20, 2020

by Jason Beaubien

The medicine is one of the few to win regulatory approval as a treatment for the disease, but has fallen out of favor with the health authority.