Greece to reopen ancient sites despite COVID-19 surge
<p>ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s government announced plans Friday to reopen the Acropolis in Athens and other ancient sites nationwide and provide free weekly rapid...
Zoos, scientists aim to curb people giving virus to animals
SAN DIEGO — The coughing among the western lowland gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in January was the first warning sign....
Greece to reopen ancient sites despite COVID-19 surge
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s government announced plans Friday to reopen the Acropolis in Athens and other ancient sites nationwide and provide free weekly rapid...
Romania, Greece aim for speedy bilateral travel arrangement
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania and Greece are looking to set up a travel arrangement using their own vaccine certificates that would open up tourism...
Sheltered from virus, Kauai plans cautious return to tourism
<p>LIHUE, Hawaii — As the coronavirus ravaged other parts of the U.S., residents of this rural Pacific island watched safely from afar.</p>
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Cruise ship passengers recall deaths, confusion, quarantine
<p>SAN FRANCISCO — The last vacation Margrit and Lucio Gonzalez took together began with an ominous delay: a medical emergency on the cruise ship...
Spanish islands warn tourists to abide by virus restrictions
MADRID — Faced with a possible flood of visitors from Germany later this month, authorities in Spain's Balearic Islands are warning hotel owners that...
Lost to mountain, Japanese internee’s bones return home
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — When Giichi Matsumura arrived at his final resting place in late December, the people who knew him best when he...
US air travel rises to highest levels yet since pandemic hit
<p>The number of people flying in the United States has eclipsed the year-ago level for the first time in the pandemic period, although travel...
Pandemic sets back Italian women’s long fight for jobs
ROME — One of hundreds of thousands of women in Italy who lost jobs in the pandemic, Laura Taddeo has a masters degree in...