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Tour de France riders won't face automatic exclusion in case of COVID-19 positive test 06/28/2023 09:13am • Tour de France riders who test positive for COVID-19 won't be automatically expelled from the race, cycling's governing body said Wednesday. The International Cycling Union said the health risks linked to the coronavirus “are currently extremely low in the peloton" because of the immunity induced Cyprus battles disease-carrying mosquitoes by breeding them with irradiated, sterilized ones 06/28/2023 05:34am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is battling an influx of disease-carrying mosquitoes by bringing in hundreds of thousands of the insects after being sterilized through radiation. The battle is primarily focused on eradicating the Aedes aegypti variety of mosquito that has been found in large numbers Nearly 36 million in Europe may have experienced long COVID, World Health Organization official says 06/27/2023 10:12am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Nearly 36 million people in Europe may have had long-lasting health problems from coronavirus infections they got during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization's regional director said Tuesday. Dr. Hans Kluge said “long COVID†UK was ill-prepared for pandemic because resources were diverted to Brexit, ex-health chief says 06/27/2023 09:09am • LONDON (AP) — Britain was ill-prepared for a pandemic partly because government resources had been diverted away from pandemic planning to brace for a possibly chaotic exit from the European Union without a deal, the U.K.'s former health secretary told an inquiry Tuesday. Matt Hancock also said o China's premier says economic growth is accelerating and the country can hit its 5% target this year 06/27/2023 12:49am • BEIJING (AP) — China's No. 2 leader said Tuesday that economic growth accelerated in the latest quarter and expressed confidence it can hit the ruling Communist Party's official target of 5% for the year. Premier Li Qiang, speaking at a conference in the eastern city of Tianjin, gave no figure for Wimbledon champ Rybakina withdraws from Eastbourne citing viral illness 06/26/2023 01:34pm • EASTBOURNE, England (AP) — Elena Rybakina withdrew from the Eastbourne International citing a virus illness on Monday, a week before she's due to defend her Wimbledon title. Eastbourne, where Rybakina was seeded No. 1, made the announcement before her scheduled first-round match. Rybakina withdrew Dygert wins women's US cycling title while Simmons captures men's road race 06/25/2023 08:39pm • American cyclist Chloe Dygert followed up her time trial national title with a victory in the women's road race on Sunday, while Quinn Simmons broke away from the field to win the shortened men's race at the U.S. championships. Dygert pulled away from Coryn Labecki, who won the criterium title earli US intelligence report on COVID-19 origins rejects some points raised by lab leak theory proponents 06/23/2023 09:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials released an intelligence report Friday that rejected some points raised by those who argue COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, instead reiterating that American spy agencies remain divided over how the pandemic began. The report was issued at the behest of Congres First gene therapy for deadly form of muscular dystrophy gets FDA approval for young kids 06/22/2023 06:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The first gene therapy for a deadly form of muscular dystrophy received preliminary U.S. approval on Thursday despite concerns from some government scientists about the treatment's ability to help boys with the inherited disease. The Food and Drug Administration approval provides Dygert and McNulty claim US cycling time trial national championships 06/22/2023 06:13pm • Chloe Dygert continued her remarkable return from a devastating injury by winning her second U.S. time trial championship on Thursday, and put herself squarely on a path toward the world championships and next year's Paris Olympics. Dygert covered two circuits of a 7.2-mile (11.5-km) course through Nearly half of US honeybee colonies died last year. Struggling beekeepers stabilize population 06/22/2023 05:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s honeybee hives just staggered through the second highest death rate on record, with beekeepers losing nearly half of their managed colonies, an annual bee survey found. But using costly and Herculean measures to create new colonies, beekeepers are somehow keeping aflo Donna Vekic upsets Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina at the Berlin Open 06/21/2023 12:50pm • BERLIN (AP) — Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina's preparations for the grass-court Grand Slam hit a snag Wednesday when she lost to Donna Vekic 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-4 in the second round of the Berlin Open. Vekic faced only two break points and saved them both. It was Rybakina's second match, after bea Foreign companies are shifting investment out of China as confidence wanes, business group says 06/21/2023 01:14am • BEIJING (AP) — Foreign companies are shifting investments and their Asian headquarters out of China as confidence plunges following the expansion of an anti-spying law and other challenges, a business group said Wednesday. The report by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China adds is one o Iran says 10 dead after consuming tainted booze at party 06/20/2023 02:34pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Ten people died after drinking home-made liquor made with methanol at a party, Iranian state media reported Tuesday, as the number of such deaths increases in the Islamic Republic. Dozens of people were reportedly hospitalized last week after drinking the tainted booze at a par Ex-PM Cameron says the UK focused too much on flu rather than other potential pandemics before COVID 06/19/2023 10:12pm • LONDON (AP) — Britain made a mistake in focusing too much on preparations for a flu pandemic rather than considering other types of pandemic in the years before the COVID-19 outbreak, former Prime Minister David Cameron told a public inquiry Monday. Cameron, who led Britain's Conservative governm