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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Rebecca Margolick, from Canada, presents the work Reservoir at the Edanco international contemporary dance festival

Photograph: Orlando Barría/EPA

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Remember... Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama depart a makeshift memorial after placing flowers in memory of shooting victims of the massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 16, 2016. —  photo by Carlos Barria / Reuters

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Noticia | El fotógrafo de EFE Orlando Barría entre los nominados al Premio Gabo 2022 https://aguajero.com/el-fotografo-de-efe-orlando-barria-entre-los-nominados-al-premio-gabo-2022

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سويسرا تضاعف قيمة مساعداتها لأوكرانيا

سويسرا تضاعف قيمة مساعداتها لأوكرانيا

🚦 #سويسرا #تضاعف #قيمة #مساعداتها #لأوكرانيا سويسرا تضاعف قيمة مساعداتها لأوكرانيا رفوف فارغة في محل تجاري بمدينة بوكروفسك الأوكرانية يوم 2 يوليو 2022. Keystone / Orlando Barria أعلن وزير الخارجية السويسري إينياتسيو كاسيس في مؤتمر تعافي أوكرانيا بمدينة لوغانو جنوب البلاد، أن سويسرا ستضاعف مساعدتها لأوكرانيا لتصل إلى 100 مليون فرنك (104 ملايين دولار) بحلول نهاية عام 2023. هذا المحتوى تم نشره…

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Dominican Republic Environment Minister is assassinated by friend

Dominican Republic Environment Minister is assassinated by friend

Orlando Jorge Mera was shot seven times in his office on Monday EFE/Orlando Barria Orlando was attacked while working in his office on Monday. The Minister for the Environment of Dominican RepublicOrlando Jorge Mera, was murdered this Monday, 6th, by a childhood friend, who shot him several times in his office. The confessed killer, Miguel Cruz, fled after the shooting and took refuge in a…

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Live Updates: Haiti's President Is Assassinated

Live Updates: Haiti’s President Is Assassinated

Here’s what you need to know: Haitian police officers on Saturday entering an area in the capital, Port-au-Prince, where suspects in the assassination are being held.Credit…Orlando Barria/EPA, via Shutterstock Haiti was hurtling toward a full-blown constitutional crisis on Sunday, with the interim prime minister and the Senate president both jockeying for control after last week’s assassination…

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States Restart Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 Vaccinations

Health officials welcome the vaccine’s return after federal authorities lifted a pause put in place on blood-clotting concerns

— The Wall Street Journal | April 25, 2021 | By Joseph Walker

Federal regulators said the benefits outweigh the risks for the J&J vaccine, shown being administered in early April. Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters

Health officials around the country resumed offering Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ -0.74% Covid-19 vaccine this weekend after getting a green light from federal regulators on Friday.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted their recommendation to pause the shots after investigating reports of rare but potentially dangerous blood clotting in certain recipients. On Friday, FDA and CDC officials said inoculations could continue because their benefits outweigh their risks.

The FDA issued updated informational guides that inform vaccine recipients and doctors of the risk of blood-clotting that primarily has affected adult women under 50. The overall risk is about 1.9 cases per million people, though the risk is about 3.5 times higher for women ages 18 to 49, officials said.

Note: County data only available for fully vaccinated individuals. Counties with less than 75% of data available have been excluded. Last updated April 28, at 10:00 p.m. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Indiana Department of Health said it began administering the J&J shot on Saturday to adults age 18 and up at a mass vaccination site at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The site administered 2,515 doses of the J&J vaccine on Saturday and an additional 1,325 doses through late afternoon on Sunday, said a spokesman for Indiana University Health, which is helping run the site.

Florida started offering the shots again on Sunday at federally supported vaccination sites in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville and Miami, said the state’s Division of Emergency Management.

A mass vaccination site at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y., opened appointments for residents to get the J&J shot on Sunday after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the city would immediately restart using the vaccines.

Some officials said it could take a few days to schedule appointments but welcomed the return of J&J’s vaccine after last week’s pause sent states scrambling to reschedule thousands of appointments.

“It does have some advantages over the other vaccines in particular populations where it may be difficult to give them a second shot,” said Onisis Stefas, chief pharmacy officer at Northwell Health. “We really need to have multiple options out there to have people comfortable to get vaccinated so we can get to herd immunity.”

Pharmacy chains Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and CVS Health Corp. said they would restart vaccinations with the J&J shot this week.

Arizona’s health department said it had advised healthcare providers in the state to resume offering the J&J shot, of which the state has nearly 105,000 doses. The Minnesota Department of Health said the state had distributed 9,600 doses of the vaccine to healthcare providers that it expects to be available to the public in the coming days.

J&J’s shot achieves immunity with one shot rather than two as required for Pfizer Inc.’s and Moderna Inc.’s vaccines. J&J’s shot is easier to keep refrigerated and for longer periods.

States and hospitals are taking advantage of the simpler dosing to vaccinate people who are less likely or able to return for a second shot, such as those who are homeless, people who travel frequently for business and older people confined to their homes.

J&J’s vaccine supplies aren’t as plentiful as its rivals because of manufacturing bottlenecks, but millions of distributed doses have yet to be administered, according to CDC data, and are a key tool to help speed the U.S.’s inoculation campaign.

Northwell likely will resume offering the J&J shot once it updates the informational materials it provides to patients to include a warning about blood clots and once it educates its doctors and nurses on how to communicate the risk to patients, particularly women under 50 years old, Dr. Stefas said.

Northwell, based in New Hyde Park, N.Y., had been using J&J’s shot primarily for people discharged from the hospital and for nursing-home residents and plans to resume doing so this week, Dr. Stefas said. The hospital will assess how much demand there is from the general public before deciding whether to offer the shot at its public vaccination sites, he said.

“Just because we offer it doesn’t mean people are going to take it,” Dr. Stefas said. “We’ll educate them on the risk, why the pause occurred and see if people are comfortable with taking the vaccine.”

Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut hopes to restart offering shots to patients being discharged from the hospital or who visit the emergency room for conditions unrelated to Covid-19, said Chief Clinical Officer Thomas Balcezak.

The hospital runs several mass-vaccination sites around the state that are already booked this week with appointments to receive the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, Dr. Balcezak said. Public-appointment slots for J&J’s shot will likely be made available in the first week of May, he said.

Despite the blood-clot warning, J&J’s shot will remain a preferred choice for some people, said Dr. Balcezak. Informal polling of patients and hospital staff after the past week’s pause showed that some people are more comfortable with the vaccine because it doesn’t use the relatively new messenger RNA technology used by Pfizer and Moderna, Dr. Balcezak said.

“Some of our employees say, ‘I just want to have the J&J shot and be one and done,’ or ‘I like the idea that the technology is not mRNA,’ ” Dr. Balcezak said. “There’s a lot of hesitancy regardless of the technology, so I don’t know if this [pause] is going to add to it or not.”

Washington state could restart J&J vaccinations as soon as this weekend pending a review of the latest FDA-CDC guidance by an independent committee of experts, said Umair Shah, the state’s secretary of health. J&J’s shots represented about 6% of all vaccine shots administered in the state when shots were paused last week; the state expects to receive an additional 8,600 doses over the first two weeks of May, he said.

Dr. Shah said he doesn’t expect demand for the vaccine to be significantly less because the pause was short and the finding was that the blood-clot risk is extremely rare. Some pharmacies have reported receiving calls from patients requesting to be placed on a wait list to receive the J&J shot once the pause was lifted, he said.

“In general, this has not shaken confidence in the vaccine by many in the community,” Dr. Shah said. “And every bit is going to help us, even a few thousand is helpful. People want it because it’s one shot and they’re not as concerned about the safety piece.”

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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

An artist performs during the work Caida Libre by the Costa Rican choreographer Karol Marenco at the XVIII Edanco 2023 International Contemporary Dance festival

Photograph: Orlando Barría/EPA

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Voodoo in Haiti (13/15), photographed by Orlando Barria

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Coronavirus: Face masks mandatory for Uber passengers and drivers

Coronavirus: Face masks mandatory for Uber passengers and drivers

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Image caption Face coverings will also be compulsory on public transport in England from Monday

Ride-sharing giant Uber is to make it mandatory for passengers and drivers to wear face coverings from Monday in the UK.

The minicab app firm said…

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Uber to make face coverings mandatory

Uber to make face coverings mandatory

Picture copyright ORLANDO BARRIA/EPA

Picture caption Face coverings can even be obligatory on public transport in England from Monday

Journey-sharing big Uber is to make it necessary for passengers and drivers to put on face coverings from Monday within the UK.

The minicab app agency stated it was…

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Germany’s Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst celebrate after defeating Larissa Franca Maestrini and Talita Rocha of Brazil in the semi-final of the women’s beach volleyball.

Photograph: Orlando Barria/EPA

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Memorial Day Travel Surge to Test Airports, Airlines

U.S. airline-passenger numbers are forecast to average as many as two million a day through the Memorial Day holiday, testing the ability of airlines and airports to handle infrequent and, in some cases, unruly, fliers.

While domestic air-travel numbers last Christmas were only half those in 2019, recent Transportation Security Administration counts have them now hovering around 90% of pre-pandemic levels. The TSA screened 1.9 million passengers last Sunday, a 14-month high.

Bookings from leisure travelers heading to the beaches and mountains picked up in March and accelerated in recent weeks, airline executives said at an industry conference this week.

“The surge in travel is just now starting to happen,” said Frontier Airlines’ chief executive, Barry Biffle. “Memorial Day is going to be big; the Fourth of July is going to be crazy.”

Many holiday-weekend travelers are infrequent fliers, and now some are coming back after more than a year of staying close to home. American Airlines Group Inc., AAL -0.78% the world’s largest carrier, said a third of its passengers typically take only one trip a year.

The first of the year’s four big holiday-travel periods comes as the industry faces a rise in onboard incidents often driven by disputes over mask-wearing. Tensions over masks––which are still required on public transportation through the fall––are exacerbated by the return to busier flights and airports, airline executives and union officials have said.

Many passengers haven’t been in an airport or a crowd for a year or more and will encounter new health-focused technologies.

Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters

Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson started a town hall this week with a warning for passengers to behave. The agency has received more than 2,500 reports linked to disorderly-passenger conduct this year, the majority of them linked to passengers refusing to comply with the mask policy.

“We’ve never seen numbers like this before,” said Mr. Dickson at the event.

The FAA has extended into September a zero-tolerance policy introduced in January that subjects passengers who flout safety rules to fines and possible jail time, rather than the prior system of warnings.

American will extend the suspension of alcohol sales in the main cabin of its jets through mid-September, the airline told flight attendants in a memo on Saturday, citing onboard incidents over the past week.

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV -0.44% said Friday that it would put on hold its plans to resume serving alcoholic drinks on flights to Hawaii next month and on other flights in July, citing an industrywide uptick in passenger disruptions. Carriers restricted food and beverage offerings during the pandemic, but some have started taking steps to restore service this summer, including alcohol.

Mask wearing and other rules in ever-busier airports and aircraft is just one element of fliers’ changing travel experience, especially as the industry institutes a wider range of distancing and hygiene measures.

Many passengers haven’t been in an airport or a crowd for a year or more, leaving their in-flight routines rusty at best. They will encounter new health-focused technologies at airports such as those in Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Miami in Florida—the destinations of the country’s three busiest routes in May. Airports and airlines have been testing new health protocols for a year in an effort to preserve social distancing and prevent viral spread.

Touchless screens abound for check-in and tagging bags, while the TSA has accelerated the rollout of new carry-on scanners at checkpoints.

Startups, governments and nonprofits are racing to create so-called “vaccine passports,” or digital health passes aimed at helping people travel and safely move around in public. WSJ explains what it would take to get a global digital health pass system off the ground. Illustration: Zoë Soriano

Though designed to ensure social distancing, the new technologies can worsen crowding as passengers pull up apps and try to scan QR codes, said George Merritt, head of strategic operations at Denver International Airport.

Passengers are also having to navigate what might have been touch screens on their last trip. Now, some airports have introduced “happy hover” screens to check in and print boarding passes and bag tags that require passengers to hold their fingers over digital buttons.

“People don’t touch the screen the same way. It’s not been a complete success,” said Dave Wilson, director of innovation at the Port of Seattle, which operates Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

The airport also rolled out a smartphone-based appointment system for passengers to book a time to pass through security in an effort to end recent congestion. When passenger numbers picked up last month, security lines stretched into the parking lot.

Mr. Wilson said the port is looking at how such appointments could be introduced elsewhere, including for boarding planes and collecting bags. While such measures could ease lines, they may also add to congestion due to passengers’ unfamiliarity.

“Changing passenger behavior is difficult. People still like to congregate,” said Frank Barich, president of Barich Inc., an Arizona-based airport consultant.

Officials at the TSA, which was born out of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, said they have already accelerated technology planned before the pandemic, such as new baggage scanners, and plan to have sufficient staffing in place for the rising passenger volumes.

Dan McCoy, the TSA’s chief innovation officer, said: “The Covid-19 crisis is really going to be the second thing that shapes the way we operate going forward.”

—Alison Sider contributed to this article.

Write to Doug Cameron at doug.cameron@wsj.com

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أوبر تطرح خاصية جديدة تلزم الركاب بإرسال سيلفي بالكمامة

أوبر تطرح خاصية جديدة تلزم الركاب بإرسال سيلفي بالكمامة

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Image caption قالت “أوبر” إن ميزة “السيلفي” لا تستخدم تقنية التعرف على الوجه.

أعلنت شركة أوبر طرح خاصية “سيلفي” على تطبيقها حتى يتمكن السائقون من التحقق من أن بعض الركاب يرتدون الكمامة.

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Want an Uber? Send a selfie proving you are wearing a mask

Want an Uber? Send a selfie proving you are wearing a mask

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Uber is to roll out a selfie feature on its app so that drivers can verify some riders are wearing face masks.

It will apply to riders who have previously been reported for not wearing a mask.

The selfie scanner, to be used in the US and Canada by the end of September and other regions after that, will look for a mask-like covering over the mouth and nose.

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Want an Uber? Send a selfie of your mask first

Want an Uber? Send a selfie of your mask first

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Uber is to roll out a selfie feature on its app so that drivers can verify some riders are wearing face masks.

It will apply to riders who have previously been reported for not wearing a mask.

The selfie scanner, to be used in the US and Canada by the end of September and…