The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York has fallen to 3,883, the lowest since Dec. 19, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday. Hospitalizations have gone down 69 percent since the Omicron-fueled peak of 12,671 on Jan. 11, plummet 30 percent in the last week alone, Hochul said. The state’s positivity rate fell to 2.5 percent … Read more
Moscow’s opening of a potential new front to Ukraine’s south came into full view Wednesday, when six amphibious ships moved into the Black Sea as Russia declared off-limits swaths of international waters surrounding occupied Crimea and the Ukrainian city of Odessa. The massing of naval forces has happened quietly, while much of the world’s attention … Read more
CHIANG KHONG, Thailand — For Pianporn Deetes, the Mekong is more than a river. “This is not just liquid, but this is the entire life-supporting system,” Deetes, a local activist, said recently on a wooden long-tail boat heading upstream in northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai province. The Mekong, one of the world’s longest waterways, runs about … Read more