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New variants of COVID-19 are spreading across Asia, reversing the success of governments such as Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand. Japan’s new outbreak is amplifying calls to cancel the Summer Olympics.
A lawyer says the U.S. has approved the release of 73-year-old Saifullah Paracha, who has been held at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay for 16 years.
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Israel and the Hamas militant group already face allegations of possible war crimes in Gaza, more than a week into their fourth war.
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The 11-year-old asked the president to be his “homeboy”
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Even as Biden officials call Title 42 a “source of pain” and stop expelling asylum seekers to Mexico late at night or far from where they crossed the border, they’re defending the Trump-era pandemic-policy.
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The White House says President Biden expressed “support” for a cease-fire in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, the eighth day of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
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The onslaught, the worst in seven years, has left hundreds dead — the vast majority of them Palestinians — along with more than 1,000 wounded.
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A prosecutor warns prospective jurors that the trial of a Mexican national charged in the fatal 2018 stabbing of Tibbetts will include graphic evidence.
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Britain’s Brexit minister says post-Brexit relations between the U.K. and the European Union are likely to be ‘bumpy’ for some time.
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For many parents, the high point of the weekend involved something they’d eagerly anticipated for months: getting their older children vaccinated.
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A powerful cyclone has made landfall on the western coast in India’s Gujarat state, hours after authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people.
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Authorities in Spain say around 1,000 Moroccans, 300 of whom are presumed to be minors, crossed into the Spanish northern African enclave of Ceuta.
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A Florida politician central to the sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz has pleaded guilty to federal charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
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A new federal regulation makes it easy to get test results and see what your doctor is recording about your health. One downside: You might not understand what you read.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the war with Gaza’s Hamas rulers would go on.
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About 88% of U.S. children are covered by the expanded child tax credit contained in the recent federal COVID-19 relief plan.
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Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline say that their potential COVID-19 vaccine triggered strong immune responses in all adult age groups during trials.
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A former suburban Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree manslaughter in Daunte Wright’s death is scheduled to stand trial Dec. 6.
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Washington is grappling with a sharp increase in migrant families and children. But Mexico faces an even graver crisis amid large-scale expulsions from U.S.
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A powerful cyclone heads toward India’s west coast, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people and a halt to COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Drew Pavlou’s battle against the University of Queensland illustrates China’s influence over a key U.S. ally.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes chips for iPhones, video game consoles and fighter jets. Now it’s being forced to choose sides.
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In U.S.-China dispute over missile defense system, Beijing punishes South Korea by restricting tourism and holding trade hostage.
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Beijing’s aggressive South China Sea expansion shows its willingness to defy international laws for President Xi Jinping’s visions of power.
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China’s paramount leader, Xi Jinping, sees himself as a savior, anointed to steer the Communist Party and China away from corruption and foreign influence, into a ‘new era’ of prosperity, power and political devotion. Whether his vision matches reality is another question.
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China’s oppression of Muslims reaches beyond Xinjiang into Pakistan. Why does it stay quiet?
China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s crackdown on Hong Kong is purging teachers, rewriting textbooks and increasing pressure on schools over what to put in the minds of students. A new national security law has endangered freedom of thought and expression.
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A lawyer says the U.S. has approved the release of 73-year-old Saifullah Paracha, who has been held at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay for 16 years.
