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Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Will Palestinians finally get a chance to vote? After a decade and a half without elections, a parliamentary vote is scheduled for May 22. But NPRs Daniel Estrin reports from Ramallah the vote might be called off. DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced long-overdue elections to unite Palestinians and renew his own legitimacy, confident his Fatah party could win. Instead, it just ...

Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak in February. Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Israel and the United Kingdom are among the most-vaccinated countries in the world. Their success is due in part to public health campaigns designed to fight v...

EU Sees Vaccine Rollout on Target; Japan Emergency: Virus Update Bloomberg 12 mins ago Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- The European Union was on track to achieve a target of procuring enough vaccines for 70% of all adults by July, according to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Several nations across the continent were planning to loosen restrictions in the next few weeks, with Hungary and Germany tying some privileges to having received a shot. Cyprus announced new lock...

Ramadan Concerns Climb; New Curbs on Indian Fliers: Virus Update Bloomberg 1 hr ago Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Southeast Asia’s biggest predominantly Muslim nations are tightening movement restrictions to avert a possible surge in Covid-19 infections around the Ramadan holidays. Direct flights from India and Pakistan into Canada were suspended, and the U.K. announced a mandatory quarantine for travelers from India, which is recording record Covid cases and deaths. China i...

Japan Readies for Emergency; Curbs on India Fliers: Virus Update Bloomberg 1 hr ago Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Japan is preparing to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka and two other prefectures, in an attempt to control the latest outbreak and preserve the country’s plans for the Summer Olympics. Covid deaths continued to climb in India. Canada to suspend direct flights from the subcontinent, and the U.K. announced a mandatory quarantine for incoming travelers f...

NationofChange “They’re just an irresponsible way to store very dangerous waste.” The threat of a catastrophic failure unleashing a 20-foot wall of industrial wastewater over nearby homes and businesses in Piney Point, Florida, illustrates the danger of widespread reliance on industrial waste ponds across the U.S., The New York Times reports. Many of these ponds, filled with toxic and sometimes radioactive, byproducts of climate-change causing activity like coal ash from pow...

Florida’s Crisis Highlights a Nationwide Risk From Toxic Ponds Thousands of open-air waste pools near power plants, mines and industrial farms can pose safety dangers from poor management and, increasingly, the effects of climate change. A pond, built atop a mound of waste from phosphorous mining, in Riverview, Fla., in December.Credit...Jason Gulley April 6, 2021Updated 2:44 p.m. ET They are ponds the size of city blocks: Wastewater pits that hold the hazardous byproducts of coal. Lagoons...

Yulia Reznikov/Getty Images In Lebanon, a Jimmy Kimmel parody video about the Pfizer vaccine is presented as a real news item. Despite doubts from his congregation, an imam in the UK turns his mosque into a vaccination center. And in Israel, a tale of two realities: theater and gym access for the vaccinated, while the rest are turned away. As the world tries to get over the COVID-19 pandemic, a big question comes into focus: Can you convince the doubters, or is it more persuasive to...

Hellbenders suffer death by a thousand cuts, says group planning to sue US Fish and Wildlife Service Sara Karnes, Springfield News-Leader Replay Video UP NEXT Conservation groups are planning to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over a decision to deny eastern hellbenders protection under the Endangered Species Act. The service determined that an Endangered Species Act was not warranted for North America’s largest salamander in a 2019 decision. The Missouri population o...