President Donald Trump spent his Christmas golfing in Florida as a government shutdown looms and COVID relief hangs in the balance. Trump, at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach for … Click to Continue »
Families that usually reunite on Christmas over a hearty, lingering meal celebrated apart Friday, services shifted online, and gift exchanges were low-key in one of the most unusual and subdued … Click to Continue »
Most regions in Italy were downgraded from status red to orange in early December, which saw some life returning to the streets. However, a stubbornly high Covid-19 death rate and a healthcare system in crisis forced the government to impose status red on the whole of Italy over the Christmas period.
After tossing a grenade that threatens to blow up a massive Covid-19 relief and government funding bill, forcing a government shutdown in the midst of the pandemic, President Donald Trump spent his Christmas Eve golfing in Florida.
In his Christmas message yesterday, Pope Francis said political and business leaders must not allow market forces and patent laws to take priority over making Covid-19 vaccines available to all, condemning nationalism and “the virus of radical individualism”.
Things can only get better — or at least they can hardly get much worse. The United States limped through 2020, its daily life muted by Covid, its oldest wound of racism reopened by the death of George Floyd and, above all, the fabric of its democracy strained by the behaviour of its outgoing president.
An explosion linked to a vehicle rocked central Nashville in the US on Christmas morning, sending shattered glass and debris over a wide area and rocking nearby buildings.
