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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 19:13:08 EDT
Search for bodies concludes at site of Florida condo collapse
Firefighters on Friday declared the end of their search for bodies at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building, concluding a month of painstaking work removing layers of dangerous debris that we...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 14:35:36 EDT
More than 100 killed after monsoon in India triggers landslides, flooding
Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rain hit parts of western India, killing more than 100 people, officials and news reports said Friday. More than 1,000 people trapped by floodwaters ...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:47:35 EDT
Fauci says prospect of open border for fully vaccinated Canadians part of active U.S. talks
U.S. President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser says he's looking forward to the resumption of land border travel between Canada and the U.S.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:56:36 EDT
Republican politicians ramp up pro-vaccination messaging as COVID-19 caseloads soar
Republican politicians are increasingly speaking out this week in an effort to persuade people who are skeptical about COVID-19 vaccines to take the shots as a new, more contagious variant sends ca...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:15:35 EDT
China's Xi visits Tibet amid infrastructure boom, rising controls over religion
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a rare visit to Tibet as authorities tighten controls over the Himalayan region's traditional Buddhist culture, accompanied by an accelerated drive for economic deve...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:59:23 EDT
Funeral for Jovenel Moïse held in his hometown as protesters clash with police
The funeral for slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was briefly interrupted Friday by nearby gunfire and tear gas as well as agitated supporters that caused U.S. and UN officials to leave before h...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:57:10 EDT
Death toll now 51 following catastrophic flooding in China
The death toll from catastrophic flooding in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou has risen to 51, state media reported Friday.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:45:22 EDT
Cleveland changes MLB team nickname to Guardians after months of discussion
Cleveland's Major League Baseball team will be called Guardians, dropping its previous name of 106 years. It ends months of internal discussions triggered by a national reckoning by institutions and t...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:30:39 EDT
Coronavirus: What's happening around the world on Friday
Most Americans who haven't been vaccinated against COVID-19 say they are unlikely to get the shots and doubt they would work against the aggressive delta variant despite evidence they do, according to...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:19:47 EDT
'Time does not heal all wounds': Norway marks 10 years since 77 killed in extremist attack
Church bells rang out across Norway on Thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of the country's worst peacetime mass killing as leaders called for renewed efforts to fight the extremism behind the attac...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:24:21 EDT
Italy to require COVID-19 'green pass' for places like restaurants, gyms and museums
With daily COVID-19 cases sharply rising again, Italy will soon require people to have passes reflecting their health status to access gyms, museums, movie theaters, the inside of restaurants and othe...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:27:47 EDT
Hong Kong police arrest 5 over children's books with alleged 'seditious' content
Hong Kong police on Thursday arrested five trade union members over children's books they described as seditious, and a court denied bail for four journalists held on charges of endangering national s...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:59:00 EDT
Unmarked grave findings in Canada prompt reckoning among U.S. churches
The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada have prompted renewed calls for a reckoning over the traumatic legacy of similar schools ...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:31:15 EDT
At least 22 dead following 2 prison riots in Ecuador
At least 22 inmates died and several police were injured during riots at two of Ecuador's largest penitentiaries, the Andean nation said on Thursday, marking the second major deadly wave of prison vio...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 04:11:20 EDT
China uninterested in WHO plan for further COVID-19 origins study
China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday.

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:47:47 EDT
EU chief rejects renegotiation of trade rules with Britain
The head of the European Union's executive arm flatly refused Thursday to renegotiate post-Brexit trade rules with the U.K. after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the bloc to work to find "p...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 08:59:31 EDT
Cleanup begins in flood-ravaged Chinese city of Zhengzhou
Residents of the storm-ravaged central Chinese city of Zhengzhou on Thursday were shovelling mud from their homes and hauling away wrecked cars and piles of destroyed belongings following floods that ...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:33:56 EDT
Two doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots effective against delta variant, study finds
Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca-Oxford's COVID-19 vaccines are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible delta coronavirus variant as they are against the previously dominant al...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:33:06 EDT
Massive outage disrupts internet services in Canada and around the world
Thousands of websites and digital services around the world were unavailable on Thursday after cloud computing company Akamai said it has been experiencing a "service incident."

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:22:49 EDT
Police fire tear gas, water cannons at protesters decrying Greece vaccination mandate
Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who gathered Wednesday in Athens to oppose coronavirus vaccination requirements proposed by the Greek government.



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