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Virginia to take down Robert E. Lee statue

September 8, 2021816 Views

A statue of Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee that towers six stories over Richmond, Virginia, in US and was a centerpiece of protests over racial injustice, is coming down this week. The Commonwealth of Virginia has announced that it would remove the 12-ton bronze statue on Monument Avenue on Wednesday, stashing it in a secure state-owned storage site until a decision on its future is finalized. The statue's scheduled takedown in the capital city comes just days after the Virginia Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Governor Ralph Northam could remove it because documents controlling its location were outdated. FILE PHOTO: The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart Ruling in two cases, the court had said Governo...

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Curtain Up! Broadway returns with high hopes and touch of butterflies

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September 7, 20211126 Views

Broadway puts on the razzle dazzle this month after an unprecedented 18-month pandemic shutdown, hoping that Americans have missed live theatre as much as actors and producers. A rousing video promotion by Oprah Winfrey, a television special, refundable tickets, and a week of outdoor performances in New York's Times Square will highlight the 18 musicals and five plays that open over the next few weeks. Production Tailor Annette Lovece and Dresser Jimmy O'Donnell adjust an outfit worn by actor Ben Crawford during a fitting at the Majestic Theater in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs "I think audiences are drooling to get back to live entertainment," said Ken Davenport, producer of "Kinky Boots" and "Once on This Island." "One of the best th...

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Below a pyramid, a treasure trove sheds new light on ancient Mexican rites

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September 2, 2021493 Views

More than a decade after Sergio Gomez began excavating a tunnel under a towering Mexican pyramid, the archeologist still spends most of his time studying the massive cache of sacred artifacts carefully placed there by priests some 2,000 years ago. The volume and variety of objects hidden in the sealed tunnel under Teotihuacan's ornate Feathered Serpent Pyramid has shattered records for discoveries at the ancient city, once the most populous metropolis of the Americas and now a top tourist draw just outside modern-day Mexico City. Sonia Disciplina examines a bouquet of "well-preserved old flowers" inside inside a 2,000-year-old tunnel built under the ornate Feathered Serpent Pyramid, which archaeologist Sergio Gomez believes recreated the underworld and was used to initiate new ruler...

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Residents, tourists scramble to evacuate as California fire nears Lake Tahoe

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August 31, 2021427 Views

Residents and tourists in communities near Lake Tahoe fled on Monday as a fierce, 2-week-old wildfire roared closer to the popular resort destination through drought-parched forests in northern California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Evacuations in and around the town of South Lake Tahoe came as the U.S. Forest Service said it was taking the unusual step of closing all 18 national forests in California to the public in the midst of a fire season already shaping up as one of the worst on record. The closure is due to last 17 days, starting Wednesday, and effectively extends a shutdown of nine national forests in northern California that began on Aug. 23 and was due to expire over the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend. A view from Emerald Bay towards Lake Tahoe is obscured by smoke ...

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EU drops U.S. from list of COVID-safe countries for travel

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August 30, 2021848 Views

European Union governments agreed on Monday to remove the United States from the EU’s safe travel list, meaning U.S. visitors and those from five other countries are likely to face tighter controls, such as COVID-19 tests and quarantines. Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Montenegro, and North Macedonia have also been taken off. The list seeks to unify travel rules across the bloc, although it does not bind individual EU nations, which are free to determine their own border policies. FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman This change that would primarily affect unvaccinated people, as soaring rates of new coronavirus infections have made the United States a global pandemic hot spot. EU off...

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Landslide triggers partial closure of Alaska’s Denali National Park

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August 27, 2021916 Views

A large swath of Denali National Park, one of Alaska’s premier travel destinations, has closed for the summer tourist season weeks early after heightened landslide activity from excessive thawing of a mountain slope made the park’s only access road unsafe. The National Park Service announced the closure late on Tuesday. Gradual but sustained sliding of the hillside has made travel treacherous around the halfway point of the 92-mile (148-km) access road, near a site called Pretty Rocks, the agency said. A shuttle bus passes the Pretty Rocks site in Denali National Park, Alaska, U.S., July 21, 2020. REUTERS/Yereth Rosen The “changing climate is driving frozen ground to thaw,” Denali park superintendent Don Striker said in a statement, which described the pace of land movement at Pr...

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Disney Cruise Line now mandates vaccination on Bahamas ship

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August 25, 2021548 Views

Walt Disney Co's cruise division said on Tuesday it will require vaccination proof from all passengers above the age of 12 traveling from Florida to the Bahamas, as the COVID-19 Delta variant sweeps across the United States. For sailings beginning Sept. 3, travelers under the age of 12 will have to provide a negative COVID-19 test, the cruise operator said in a blog. It also plans to cancel the Sept. 4 "Disney Fantasy" sailing. Disney Dream, a Disney Cruise Lines' ship, sails to the Bahamas on the first Disney cruise for paying customers since they were stopped during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, from Port Canaveral in Florida, U.S., August 9, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper Guests who choose not to provide proof of vaccination to meet the requirements of The Bahamas wi...

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Mexico City taps solar energy to clean up historic Aztec-era canals

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August 24, 20211178 Views

Mexican scientists have developed a unique "nanobubble" system using solar energy to improve water quality in the canals of Mexico City's Xochimilco ecological zone, a popular tourist attraction. Officials in Mexico City have been focused on cleaning up the long-polluted waters of Xochimilco, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the few areas of the capital that still boasts canal networks dating back to Aztec times. Members of a team of researchers from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav), who developed a method that converts solar energy into photovoltaic energy that activates a pump that sends "nanobubbles" into the water, install a water system at a trajinera boat as part of a project to clean the polluted waters at the canals of Xochimilco, in Mexico Cit...

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US must approve AstraZeneca vaccine to rescue transatlantic travel

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August 24, 20211424 Views

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has called upon the U.S. government to urgently speed up approval of the UK’s AstraZeneca vaccine to help restore vital transatlantic travel. The Centre for Disease Control (CDC), the main health authority in the U.S., this week approved the Pfizer vaccine, however it still does not currently recognise AstraZeneca as an approved COVID-19 vaccine. Even if the Biden Administration allows borders to reopen, the CDC’s non-recognition of AstraZeneca will be a significant barrier to transatlantic travel between the UK and the U.S. FILE PHOTO: Vials with AstraZeneca's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are seen at the vaccination centre in the Newcastle Eagles Community Arena, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Britain, January 30, 2021. REUTERS/Le...

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Costa Rica eyes permanent ban on fossil fuels

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August 4, 20211670 Views

Saving rich biodiversity and decarbonizing by 2050 are the targets Costa Rican lawmakers this week will discuss a bill to permanently ban fossil fuel exploration and extraction, a move that would prevent future governments from pivoting on the issue as the popular eco-tourism destination country aims to decarbonize by 2050. General view of the National Park Tapamti in Orosi, 80 miles (128km) of San Jose. Green trailblazer Costa Rica is drawing up plans to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero before 2030, the government said on Thursday, and aims to be the first nation to offset all its carbon. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate Costa Rica started efforts to ban fossil fuel exploration in 2002 under President Abel Pacheco. This ban was supposed to expire in 2014 but later extended ...