The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant. The tally of lives lost over…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Rescuers have found the bodies of 19 victims a day after a plane crash in a remote area in Russia’s Far East, the authorities said. An Antonov An-26 carrying…
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Sydney’s two-week lockdown has been extended for another week due to the vulnerability of an Australian population largely unvaccinated against COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday. “The situation we’re…
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Paris(AFP): A French court on Tuesday ordered Twitter to give activists full access to all of its documents relating to its efforts to fight racism, sexism, and other forms of hate speech…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Wreckage from a plane carrying 28 people that went missing Tuesday was found a few miles (kilometers) from the airport in Russia’s the Far East where it was supposed…
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For the past 18 years, Czech physics teacher Karel Rehak has seen the water level in his well drop steadily, a phenomenon he attributes to a nearby sprawling Polish brown-coal mine. The…
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Seventy-five years after the US military began using the Marshall Islands as a nuke testing ground, a new generation fired-up by climate activism is demanding justice. When the Able atomic bomb was…
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Istanbul(AFP): Award-winning photographer Bulent Kilic filed a “violent arrest” complaint against police officers who pinned him to the ground with their legs against his neck and back while he was covering the march on…
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin’s kneeled to the biggest outcry against…
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Tehran(AFP): Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday received the first dose of a domestically produced coronavirus vaccine, his social media announced, as the country battles the Middle East’s deadliest outbreak.…
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