The money that’s been helping many Costa Ricans deal with the economic effects of Covid-19 is coming to an end. That has the government and experts trying to measure how hard the impact will be on the country of roughly 5 million people and what other steps need to be taken. In April, the International Monetary Fund predicted that Covid-19 would trigger the worst economic recession since 1929. Costa Rican citizens, like many others around the globe, are feeling its consequences. “People are being forced to accommodate to a new ‘normality,’ giving priority to savings and watching their expenses,” said…
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Two-year-old twins Prefina and Ervina recently celebrated their birthday in a unusual way – as individuals. The previously conjoined twins, connected at the head, were successfully separated after several surgeries by skilled surgeons and nurses at an Italian hospital. Ermine celebrates twin Ervina and Prefina second birthday in the hospital after undergoing three complex surgeries to separate them from the head which involved separating their brains with 3D technology. (Ospedale Bambino Gesu)The girls had “one of the rarest and most complex forms of cranial and cerebral fusion. They had in common the bones of the posterior area of the skull and…
On a day when 11 people were shot, two fatally, amid months of soaring gun violence in Chicago, a memorial honored a police officer who was shot 10 years ago in the back with his own gun and then, as he lay fallen, shot in the head at close range. Chicago Police holds a memorial for Fallen Chicago Police Officer Thor O. Soderberg (Newsflash/@ChicagoPoliceDepartment)Bagpipers played while scores of police stood at attention during the memorial for Thor Odin Soderberg, who was disarmed by an attacker and murdered outside a police deployment center in the Englewood neighborhood. Soderberg was a nearly 11-year…
Dozens of tiny flint figures were found by scientists working in Jordan, thousands of years after they were likely used in funerals and memorial ceremonies. The dozens of tiny human figures were found by Spanish archaeologists surrounding human remains and are believed to have been used in rituals to celebrate the dead more than 10,000 years ago, according to a press statement from Spain’s Superior Council of Scientific Investigations, or CSIC, and its affiliated Milá and Fontanals Institution for Humanities Research. The figurines found in the archaeological site (Newsflash/Kharaysin archaeological team-CSIC)“Their close association with burial contexts suggests that they were…
Florida schools will reopen in the fall, thanks to an executive order signed by that state’s Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. And Florida, where President Trump maintains residency, won’t be the only state where children will head to classrooms if the president has anything to do with it. The order was signed Monday, and says schools must open for five days a week for in-person instruction, but state and local health officials could close them for safety. At a White House event Tuesday focused on how to safely reopen the nation’s schools amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Trump told reporters he…
RICHMOND, Virginia—A large crowd gathered in a heavy downpour to watch history being made: The removal of the monument celebrating Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Church bells rang in the distance as work crews took power tools to the feet of the statue. Once removed, the monument was placed on a flatbed and taken to an undisclosed location, its final fate undecided. A defaced statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson in Richmond, Va. (Brenda Clemons/Zenger)What happens to these monuments has created as much debate as the statues themselves. Some see the statues as representing history and want the monuments to at…
Kampala, Uganda—With food gone and six children to feed, 40-year-old Zawadi Kizungu had no choice but to walk miles to find food, and stepped into a food shortage troubling all of Central Uganda. She braved the early morning chill and walked 16 kilometers, nearly 10 miles, from her home in Ndejje, a village on the outskirts of Kampala, the capital, to Nsambya Ave-Maria suburb to get relief food being distributed to refugees by the Jesuit Refugee Service. Zawadi Kizungu 40, a Congolese refugee and a mother of six who faced mistreatment while receiving relief food distributed by Jesuit Refugee Service…
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Artists are blazing a new path to battle isolation, boredom and sagging spirits: home delivery. The Driveway Drag Show carries on, even for Richmond’s city clients with no driveways. (Courtesy: Andy Jordan)of performances, either to your driveway, balcony, or backyard.Michelle Livigne has been a drag entertainer in Richmond, Virginia, for 12 years, and missed the camaraderie of friends and coworkers. She casually joked on social media about doing driveway drag shows. In less than 72 hours, she had more than 40 shows booked. For $75, she and a cohort show up to homes in full drag and perform two songs…