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New Delhi — Five people were killed by a fire that erupted at the sprawling complex of the Serum Institute of India, one of the world’s biggest vaccine-making facilities which is …
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Geneva — In a dramatic turnaround, the Biden administration thanked the World Health Organization Thursday for leading the global pandemic response and vowed to remain a member state. “Under trying …
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Beijing — When it comes to U.S.-China relations, the Biden administration has inherited a relationship under enormous strain. The two powers have clashed over issues ranging from trade, the status of …
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Beijing — China is rushing to build a massive quarantine camp with more than 4,000 isolation suites in Hebei Province, a region just outside Beijing at the center of a resurgent …
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A powerful gas explosion tore through a residential building in central Madrid on Wednesday, killing four people and ripping the facade off the structure. A tower of smoke rose from …
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The Canadian company behind the Keystone XL oil pipeline said Wednesday it has suspended work on the pipeline in anticipation of incoming President Joe Biden revoking its permit. Mr. Biden’s …
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London — Donald Trump’s administration was not a conventional one in the view of many U.S. allies and some of the international reaction on Inauguration Day to the change in Washington …
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Tehran — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday hailed the White House departure of “tyrant” Donald Trump, saying that “the ball is in America’s court” to return to a landmark nuclear …
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Cairo — Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities has revealed details of the latest landmark discoveries to emerge from the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo. The vast burial grounds sit in what was …
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About 212 light years from Earth, a gas giant light enough to be nicknamed a “super-puff” or “cotton candy” planet is circling extremely close to its host star. The exoplanet …
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has hit China with new sanctions by declaring that China’s policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in western Xinjiang Province constitute a “genocide.” Pompeo made …
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Nazifa Mahbobi worked for years as a journalist in Afghanistan‘s capital, most recently for Radio Free Europe. Last month, she fled her country after repeated warnings from the national intelligence agency …
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Krystal Chavez, who was a toddler when her father started his prison sentence in the early 1990s, said she was looking forward to hugging him for the first time outside …
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The Museum of London will soon have a new display that acknowledges the Trump presidency — and its controversy. The museum has acquired the “Trump Baby” balloon that has been …
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The World Health Organization chief on Monday lambasted drugmakers’ profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it’s “not right” that younger, healthier adults in wealthy countries get vaccinated against COVID-19 before older …
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Tel Aviv, Israel — Israel’s education minister is banning groups that call Israel an “apartheid state” from lecturing at schools — a move that targets one of the country’s leading human …
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Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was detained in Moscow after flying back from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from a poisoning that nearly killed him. Elizabeth Palmer reports. Source …
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Russian opposition leader and Putin critic Alexey Navalny was detained Sunday after he returned to Moscow. It was the first time he returned to Moscow since he was poisoned with …
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CBS News senior foreign correspondent Liz Palmer reports from London on the global impacts of coronavirus. Source link
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Musician, songwriter and comedian Tim Minchin built a following that would take him worldwide. “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason talked with Minchin about his storybook journey that’s taken him …
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The Luminous Voices Chamber Choir in Calgary, Canada, improvised a way to sing together while social distancing in their cars, thanks to the help of technology. The choir even pulled …
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When Lars Jacobson spots a truck crossing the Canadian border into the United States, he sees unfairness. COVID-19 has stopped people from coming in, but not trucks facilitating commerce. “The …
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The new coronavirus variant first seen in the United Kingdom is likely to become the dominant strain in the United States by March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his entire Cabinet resigned Friday to take political responsibility for a scandal involving investigations into child welfare payments that wrongly labeled thousands of parents …
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The coronavirus has now killed more than 2 million people worldwide since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The United …
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A strong, shallow earthquake shook Indonesia’s Sulawesi island just after midnight Friday, toppling homes and buildings, triggering landslides. At least 42 people were killed. More than 600 people were injured …
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Hundreds of migrant children who crossed the U.S. southern border alone after their families were required to wait in Mexico under a Trump administration policy are being denied legal safeguards …
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Canberra, Australia — A pigeon that Australia declared a biosecurity risk has received a reprieve after a U.S. bird organization declared its identifying leg band was fake. The band suggested …
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It’s been just over a year since Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down by Iranian missiles. The international investigators probing the incident say they’re still waiting for Iran …
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London — Most people who have had COVID-19 have some immunity against catching it again for at least five months, according to a study by Public Health England. The U.K. …
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