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Scientists struggle to understand the competition between Omicron and Delta
COVID-19 just broke its year-old record for new U.S. infections in a week. But this time, far fewer hospitali…
COVID-19 just broke its year-old record for new U.S. infections in a week. But this time, far fewer hospitali…
The LAPD shooting death of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta reverberated in diplomatic circles from Was…
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito is offering prayers for those who died during the pandemic, taking to video for the …
China has opened an embassy in Nicaragua for the first time since 1990, acting just over three weeks after Pr…
Countries around the globe rang in the new year with fireworks and light shows as 2022 ushered in the third y…
El Salvador's navy has seized two semi-submersible boats carrying 4.1 metric tons of cocaine off the coun…
Cousins was placed on the team’s Covid-19 reserve list for at least five days, threatening Minnesota’s playof…
The German government has dropped plans to give the country’s highest honor to an Israeli historian amid crit…
Residents who leave their homes past 10 p.m. could face fines of up to $4,750. from NYT > World News
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia spoke with President Biden for 50 minutes about the escalating crisis w…
Case counts are down by 30 percent in the last week, researchers in the country said. from NYT > World N…
Biden and Putin hold their second direct conversation in the last three weeks, as roughly 100,000 Russian tro…
Scientists are worried that Mexico is unprepared for a post-holiday season wave in coronavirus cases as the O…
Aaron, Sondheim, Dole and Didion. But the loss of Colin Powell from the virus spoke most directly to the mome…
Israel says it will offer a 4th vaccine dose to those most vulnerable to COVID-19 from ABC News: Internatio…
The severe measures in Xi’an have prompted concern, as residents complain on social media of having trouble o…
It is the first country to approve a fourth shot to defend against the coronavirus. from World - CBSNews.co…
Santander's U.K. bank blames a "technical issue" for thousands of duplicate payments made on Ch…
Bahrain's news agency says the king has appointed the country's first ambassador to Syria in more tha…
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U.S. and Western allies have watched the buildup of Russian troops near the border of Ukraine, fueling fears …
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that a new pipeline to Germany has been fully filled with natural gas …
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The White House said Mr. Biden and Putin will discuss " a range of topics, including upcoming diplomatic…
In northeast Brazil, local officials say they have never before seen flooding on this scale. Tens of thousand…
A case study of one infected household observed that it may take as little as three days for people to become…
No big parties in Paris, Rome, Tokyo and beyond. from NYT > World News
A British Airways aircraft carrying around 200 holiday travellers from London survived a mid-air scare after …
Sudanese officials say at least 38 people were killed when a gold mine collapsed in West Kordofan province. …
In a proclamation, Mr. Biden said the restrictions "are no longer necessary to protect the public healt…
Britain reported a record 129,471 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson …
Evangelical pastors have become increasingly influential inside Argentine prisons, especially in Santa Fe pro…
In meeting with COVID response team and U.S. governors, Biden reiterates his plan to make 500 million rapid t…
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Ethiopia says it is unhappy with the U.S. decision to revoke duty-free access for the East African country’s …
Syria has called Israel's plans to double the number of settlers living in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heig…
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The Nicaraguan government has seized the former embassy and diplomatic offices of Taiwan, saying they belong …
Eastern European nations have drawn a lesson from America’s wars of the last decades: Insurgency works. Ukrai…
Photos of the Christmas Eve killings in a Myanmar village spread on social media from ABC News: Internation…
The Nobel laureate retired from public life over a decade ago, but he continued to advocate social justice, g…
A timeline of Desmond Tutu's life from ABC News: International
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The suspect, a 19-year-old man from Southampton, did not enter any buildings on the grounds. from World - C…
The Pope and Queen Elizabeth both delivered their annual holiday messages on Christmas as the COVID-19 pandem…
Those 15 and older will be eligible for vaccination as of Jan. 3, and health workers and high-risk people ove…
The crew held an open-air Christmas service on the pier, allowing the sailors to remain socially distanced. …
The volcanic eruption was the island of La Palma's longest active eruption on record, officials said. f…
A bomb has exploded at a restaurant as patrons gathered on Christmas Day in an eastern Congolese town where I…
Bomb explodes at restaurant in east Congo where Islamic militants are active, mayor says from ABC News: Int…
Right-wing Hindu activists at a conference took an oath to harm Muslims if necessary to make “a Hindu-only na…
Sudanese authorities have tightened security across the capital of Khartoum ahead of protests against the Oct…
Masked worshipers on Friday lined up to enter the church across from the Louvre Museum and attend a Christmas…
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Saudi Arabia says a Yemeni rebel attack on the southern border town of Jizan has killed two people and wounde…
In the Charles Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol,” most people know how Ebenezer Scrooge is changed for the…
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The new regulations follow data showing that while the Omicron variant is highly transmissible, it has not ca…
Russia has doubled the purchases of natural gas from Turkmenistan this year amid rising global demand from …
Representatives of minority Sikh and Hindu communities in Afghanistan, including MP Narender Singh Khalsa who…
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A longtime campaign of military cyberattacks between Iran and its adversaries, including the U.S. and Israel,…
Iranian media say Iraq’s foreign minister has called for direct negotiations between Iran and the United Stat…
France has condemned the Malian transitional authorities’ decision to allow the deployment of the Wagner Grou…
In the latest crackdown on political dissent in Hong Kong, authorities removed the “Pillar of Shame” statue t…
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Poland’s justice minister has asked his nation’s constitutional court to rule on whether a new European Union…
Gov. Gavin Newsom said that more than half of the sequenced cases in the state have been identified as the Om…
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A popular Greek TV comedian has been arrested following allegations that he posted sex videos of his former p…
The new measures will allow the United States to maintain pressure on the Taliban as the country faces collap…
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has formally resigned, a move he had announced after his governin…
More than 50 regular season games have been postponed amid an outbreak across the league. from World - CBSN…
As the effects of climate change continue to accelerate, the U.N. says the strongest lever to reduce global w…
President Biden warns that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus will result in more breakthrough infections…
Chile's millennial president-elect enjoys tattoos, socialist policies and Taylor's remake of her '…
The U.N. human rights office has called for an independent investigation into allegations of sexual violence,…
The U.N. chief has warned the continued paralysis of Lebanon's government may dampen international suppor…
I had rare access this year to Ethiopia’s Tigray region and the conflict that the government there has largel…
The helicopter was flying Serge Gelle and others to inspect the site of a deadly shipwreck off the northeaste…
Advocates say the government belatedly set unnecessarily steep barriers that many Afghans can't surmount.…
Ukrainian authorities have notified the country's former president that he is being suspected of high tre…
A spokesman for Christian Aid Ministries described the dramatic escape of 12 missionaries who had been held c…
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A cargo ship illegally carrying 130 passengers sank off Madagascar’s northeastern coast, killing at least 17 …
Russia has attacked Ukraine’s power grid in the past, and experts say Moscow might take similar steps as it m…
The man, reportedly beaten to death on Saturday for "sacrilege", had allegedly barged into the inne…
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Standing under the rain, United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres, who is visiting Lebanon, laid a w…
Greece says it will renew a request for European Union funds in 2022 to extend a border wall along its fronti…
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Run-off vote settles most polarized election in South American nation since return to democracy more than thr…
Peng Shuai said in an interview with a Singaporean newspaper that she had been misunderstood. She also said, …
A leftist millennial who rose to prominence during anti-government protests wins election as Chile's next…
All non-essential stores, bars and restaurants in the Netherlands will be closed until January 14 starting Su…
Five years ago a terrorist killed 12 people at a Berlin Christmas market. from ABC News: International
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the appointment of Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to become lead nego…
Her husband, Augusto Pinochet, acknowledged that she had pushed him to participate in the 1973 coup that brou…
Chileans face a stark choice Sunday between presidential candidates representing the left and right who'v…
The authorization could drastically increase the vaccine supply for low- and middle-income countries. from …
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Prime Minister Jean Castex of France said the government would present a bill to transform its health pass in…
A U.N. conference made little headway this week on limiting development and use of killer robots, prompting s…
The prime minister’s Conservative Party lost a seat it had held for more than a century, a loss that could ha…
Researchers found that feeding seaweed to cattle would dramatically reduce greenhouse gases, says farmer Joe …
Iran says it is recalling its ambassador in Yemen for medical treatment as he has been infected by the corona…
Vice President Kamala Harris said the administration failed to anticipate the variants that have led to a fif…
Several hundred demonstrators have taken to the streets of Senegal's capital, accusing the government of …
Canada’s largest province is cutting capacity at restaurants, bars and retailers to 50% and limiting social g…
The governing party lost to the Liberal Democrats a district that it had represented for more than a century.…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Pope Francis to congratulate him on his 85th birthday, praising t…
The prime minister’s Conservative Party lost a seat it had held for more than a century, a loss that could ha…
Marvel and Sony have had to go the extra mile to keep the movie from leaking. from World - CBSNews.com
The Biden administration has apparently halted for now the practice of holding migrant parents with their chi…
A lawyer says a Pakistani court has sentenced four men implicated in the 2013 killing of a female activist in…
A court in Madagascar has convicted two French citizens of having plotted a failed coup against President And…
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Police said Thursday 12 remaining hostages had been freed. from World - CBSNews.com
The court said recognizing families with same-sex parents "does not undermine the national identity or p…
Kosovo's Justice Ministry says it has struck a preliminary agreement to rent 300 prison cells to Denmark …
At least five schoolchildren were killed and several others injured after wind gusts swept away a bouncy cast…
Data from British vets shows Frenchies' health is "largely much poorer" than other dogs, due to…
Labor unions led by the Greek Communist Party are demanding a return of wage and pension levels that were axe…
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Lebanon’s interior minister has ordered the deportation of members of Bahrain's outlawed Shiite oppositio…
Officials didn’t specify what share of the new cases might be Omicron, though they said a majority in London …
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Squeezed by rising costs, price controls and plunging sales, bakers warn of ruin, while their impoverished fo…
Romania’s minister of innovation and digitalization has resigned following a journalism investigation that fo…
Though both Omicron cases were quarantined upon arrival, a small outbreak in a building where one man was qua…
With the Omicron variant already spreading, officials conclude they’ve lost the battle to prevent its enterin…
A well-known judge in Romania has been suspended from his position over videos he posted on the social media …
Mexico and the United States have begun work on the new framework that will govern their security relationshi…
Rose Ayling-Ellis has reached the final of Britain's "Strictly Come Dancing" despite not hearin…
Malta has decriminalized the possession and cultivation of cannabis for personal use by adults from ABC New…
The employee, identified only as Ms. Zhou, went public in August with allegations that she was raped by a col…
Researchers said the entire glacier holds enough water to raise sea levels by more than two feet. from Worl…
Sacoolas is accused of killing 19-year-old Harry Dunn in a collision outside an air base in eastern England u…
A criminal inquiry into allegations that Spain’s former king laundered illegal commission payments from Saudi…
Germany’s new foreign minister says the European Union should slap sanctions on Bosnian Serb leader Milorad D…
The singer’s brand of machismo may have frayed, but for many, he was the ideal of what it means to be hard-wo…
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Lebanon’s national currency has further collapsed, trading on the black market at nearly 20 times its value t…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the U.K. would accelerate the country’s coronavirus vaccine booster program…
Last week, the director of the United Nation's World Food Programme said if the world's top billionai…
President Biden's special envoy for climate change was on a whistle-stop tour in Europe to reassure partn…
Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man during clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus from ABC New…
At least 90 people were feared dead — most of them in Kentucky — after a series of tornadoes tore through the…
The British government has accelerated its goal to a month earlier than planned, the prime minister said. f…
Climate change sparks bush fires, now catastrophic floods. from NYT > World News
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he's being treated for mild COVID-19 symptoms after testing …
Greece’s third-largest group in parliament has elected a European Parliament lawmaker as its new leader fro…
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A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ruled that all travelers arriving in Brazil must present a vaccine pass…
British police say a man has been shot dead during a confrontation with firearms officers near the Kensington…
In her first address as a French conservative presidential candidate, Valérie Pécresse is vowing to break wit…
Party delegates from Germany’s center-left Social Democrats, the senior partner in the country’s new coalitio…
Deadly tornadoes hit Illinois, Kentucky and several other states from World & Nation
Pope Francis draws attention to a problem that the Vatican has downplayed. from ABC News: International
Brazil’s government declared a state of emergency in almost 50 cities in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais…
With immunity waning and the Omicron variant looming, many scientists are saying the definition of 'fully…
Police in North Macedonia have discovered 41 migrants, including five children, in a routine police check on …
A Sudanese medical group says renewed tribal clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan's Darfur region…
Over 100 others were reported injured in the crash in southern Chiapas State, where many migrants regularly c…
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A Roman Catholic diocese in Sicily has apologized to outraged parents after its bishop told a group of childr…
Britain could be a bellwether of what other countries will see from the new coronavirus variant. Officials sa…
Armenia's military says one of its soldiers was killed and eight more were wounded in another clash with …
A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban says the militant group will not extend a cease-fire agreed to a month …
Five mixed-race women who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy and sued the Belgian state for …
Photographs of Prime Minister Sanna Marin dancing maskless at a nightclub went viral, as her outing happened …
An independent, unofficial body set up by a prominent British barrister to assess evidence on China's all…
South Africa’s regulatory authority has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as a booster shot, opening the w…
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Armenia and Azerbaijan have traded blame for border clashes in which officials say at least one soldier has b…
After receiving his certificate of appointment from Germany’s president, Olaf Scholz was sworn in as chancell…
French rescuers have retrieved two more bodies from the remains of an apartment building in southern France t…
A former monk, he spent decades constructing a grand edifice as an act of faith and devotion, and did so almo…
U.S. Treasury: El Salvador government secretly negotiated a truce with leaders of the country’s powerful stre…
Critics have condemned a recording showing the prime minister’s staff joking about breaches of coronavirus re…
Trying to defuse large protests by environmentalists, Serbia’s populist government has decided to suspend two…
Sunday will become a day off and Friday will be a partial work day — a departure from most of the Arab world,…
Biden warns Putin on Ukraine. from NYT > World News
Though largely unknown outside Canada, she was often ranked alongside Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro as one …
The message came as part of a rare public advisory from the nation’s top physician, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy. fr…
Vladimir V. Putin wants Russia to retain sway over western-leaning Ukraine. President Biden aims to secure a …
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As the clean energy revolution upends the centuries-long lock of fossil fuels on the global economy, dealmake…
A French judicial official says a suspect in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been arreste…
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Aung San Suu Kyi is convicted in Myanmar. from NYT > World News
Athletes will still be able to compete in the Winter Games in Beijing, but the diplomatic boycott is a respon…
President Biden is preparing to speak Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin as tensions rise between …
The sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi is a blow to Myanmar's democratic aspirations, but worldwide fervor ov…
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The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland have called on two academics to lead a study of the S…
Most local vaccine mandates in the U.S. have been limited to public-sector workers and certain other groups l…
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The United States will stage a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing to protest Chine…
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Youths have thrown petrol bombs and stones at police, who fired tear gas to disperse them, during a march in …
Two London police officers who took pictures of two slain sisters and posted them on social media have been j…
A Jordanian broadcaster rejects accusations of publishing anti-Semitic content that led a German broadcaster …
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Inbound travelers must now show a negative result from a test taken no more than a day before departure, a re…
President Biden will speak with the Russia president Tuesday. Russian troops amassing on its border with Ukra…
Dozens of Japanese tanks are participating in a major exercise on the northern island of Hokkaido in a displa…
Lawmakers in the Solomon Islands are debating whether they still have confidence in the prime minister, after…
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He rode a wave of royalist sentiment to win a United Nations-sponsored election in 1993, but was later ousted…
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Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican…
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has named a former foreign minister as his party’s candidate for a specia…
Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has secured his re-election with a comfortable margin over his opposition in …
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Five people were killed and at least 15 arrested after Myanmar security forces in a car rammed into an anti-c…