Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | It seemed like Silvanah Lima was finally getting ahead. Born and raised in Brazil’s drought-ridden northeast, she moved with her partner to Rio de Janeiro in 2018, in search of work. He was hired as a janitor; she began selling meals on the street, and soon they were bringing in $280 a month — enough to start saving to one day build a house back home.The novel coronavirus pushed that dream out of reach. Lima, who has diabetes and heart problems, putting her at higher risk of dying if she contracts the virus, stopped working once the pandemic took...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | It seemed like Silvanah Lima was finally getting ahead. Born and raised in Brazil’s drought-ridden northeast, she moved with her partner to Rio de Janeiro in 2018, in search of work. He was hired as a janitor; she began selling meals on the street, and soon they were bringing in $280 a month — enough to start saving to one day build a house back home.The novel coronavirus pushed that dream out of reach. Lima, who has diabetes and heart problems, putting her at higher risk of dying if she contracts the virus, stopped working once the pandemic took...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections looming, some Arab gulf nations have turned for help to an ostensible enemy and a country they don’t officially recognize: Israel.Call it COVID-19 diplomacy, according to Yoel Har-Even, head of the international division at Tel Aviv’s Sheba Medical Center, one of Israel’s top medical institutions. The hospital has received inquiries about services and treatments from private individuals and businessmen from countries where “you have to have official permission to reach out” to...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections looming, some Arab gulf nations have turned for help to an ostensible enemy and a country they don’t officially recognize: Israel.Call it COVID-19 diplomacy, according to Yoel Har-Even, head of the international division at Tel Aviv’s Sheba Medical Center, one of Israel’s top medical institutions. The hospital has received inquiries about services and treatments from private individuals and businessmen from countries where “you have to have official permission to reach out” to...WW…

Copyright © 2021, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementThe shootings began after lunch.It was Friday, Jan. 8, the day after Genna, the Ethiopian Orthodox Christmas. Around 2 p.m., Kidane Tesfay heard gunshots near his family’s home and thought of his two brothers, ages 17 and 20, walking outside.“When I looked through the door’s peephole, I saw them on the ground, their blood spilling out,” he said in an interview. He also saw soldiers wearing mud-flecked green camouflage gear striding up to the door.“I had to escape,” Tesfay said. “Luckily our house has another entrance. I ran out the...…Copyright © 2021, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementThe shootings began after lunch.It was Friday, Jan. 8, the day after Genna, the Ethiopian Orthodox Christmas. Around 2 p.m., Kidane Tesfay heard gunshots near his family’s home and thought of his two brothers, ages 17 and 20, walking outside.“When I looked through the door’s peephole, I saw them on the ground, their blood spilling out,” he said in an interview. He also saw soldiers wearing mud-flecked green camouflage gear striding up to the door.“I had to escape,” Tesfay said. “Luckily our house has another entrance. I ran out the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | On a mild September morning, about two dozen girls and women, swathed in brightly colored shawls that revealed only their eyes, picked through a verdant field. With sickles that glinted in the waning summer sun, they reaped the blanket of spiky-leaved stalks stretching to the foot of the nearby hills.The crop was cannabis. And it’s a lifeline, advocates say, that Lebanon urgently needs.The country is scrabbling to escape an existential, multilayered crisis that has to less than a quarter of its previous value, brought the specter of shortages to a...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | On a mild September morning, about two dozen girls and women, swathed in brightly colored shawls that revealed only their eyes, picked through a verdant field. With sickles that glinted in the waning summer sun, they reaped the blanket of spiky-leaved stalks stretching to the foot of the nearby hills.The crop was cannabis. And it’s a lifeline, advocates say, that Lebanon urgently needs.The country is scrabbling to escape an existential, multilayered crisis that has to less than a quarter of its previous value, brought the specter of shortages to a...WW…