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Coronavirus live news: US reaches 70% first-shot goal while Japan shifts to home care for most Covid patients

White House greets vaccine news as ‘Milestone Monday’ while Japan moves to ensure it has enough hospital beds amid a spike in Covid casesUS reaches...

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Seoul: North Korea releases army rice reserves amid shortage

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is releasing emergency military rice reserves as its food shortage worsens, South Korea’s spy agency said Tuesday, with...

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China orders mass testing in Wuhan as COVID outbreak spreads

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities announced Tuesday mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan as an unusually wide series of COVID-19 outbreaks reached the city where the...

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Belarus exile group leader Vitaly Shishov found dead in Kyiv, police say

Police open murder investigation after activist discovered in park after failing to return from a run The head of a Kyiv-based non-profit organisation that helps...

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New restrictions sweep China as officials race to contain delta outbreak

Clusters have emerged in almost 30 cities, including Beijing, Wuhan and flood-hit Zhengzhou.Source: Washington Post

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Touring Trinity, the Birthplace of Nuclear Dread

We continued through a gate and down a path lined with barbed wire, Keep Out signs and warnings about rattlesnakes, to a fenced-in area littered...

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Germany says wife of man believed to be double agent also helped spy for China

Authorities say the woman and her political scientist husband were recruited by Chinese intelligence when they went on a lecture trip to Shanghai in 2010.Source:...

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Ohio House Races: What to Watch For

But who wins, and her margin of victory, could tell us a little about what Democratic voters are thinking as the party tries to capitalize...

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$1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Pours Money Into Long-Delayed Needs

WASHINGTON — Amtrak would see its biggest infusion of money since its inception a half-century ago. Climate resilience programs would receive their largest burst of...

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German warship heads for South China Sea for first time in nearly two decades amid tension with Beijing

Germany on Monday sent a warship to the South China Sea for the first time in almost two decades, joining other Western nations in expanding...