TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For Ali Hedieloo, a 40-year-old making wooden furniture in Iran’s capital, Instagram is more than just a surfeit of glossy images. Like an estimated 1 million other Iranians,…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday expanded its efforts to evacuate at-risk Afghan citizens from Afghanistan as Taliban violence increases ahead there of the U.S. military pullout at the end of the…
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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron appealed for national unity and mass vaccination to fight the resurgent virus and lashed out at those fueling anti-vaccine sentiment and protests. About 160,000 people protested…
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Colombian police said Wednesday they had arrested 70 people following fresh anti-government protests that mobilized thousands countrywide the previous day and left dozens injured. As Colombians returned to the streets after a…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The game between the San Diego Padres and Washington was suspended in the sixth inning Saturday night after a shooting outside Nationals Park that caused echoes of gunfire inside…
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The kingdom seeks to repeat last year’s success that saw no virus outbreak during the five-day ritual but nonetheless caused resentment among Muslims abroad. It is allowing 60,000 residents of Saudi Arabia…
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Sydney(AFP): Australia reported another spike in new coronavirus cases Monday, as a lockdown in the country’s largest city Sydney failed to halt a rapidly growing cluster of cases. Health authorities reported 112…
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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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