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Pakistan Taliban claim deadly blast at luxury hotel

QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) -- The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for a deadly suicide blast at a luxury hotel hosting…

Virus reaches Everest as climber tests positive

by Paavan MATHEMA KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) -- A Norwegian climber hoping to summit Everest confirmed Thursday that he has tested…

Angola flood death toll rises to 24

LUANDA, Angola (AFP) -- The death toll from a torrential rainstorm that hit Angola's capital Luanda this week has risen…

Covid-19 variant related to surging case numbers in India appears in Canada

By: Thomas I. Likness EBC News Service (Eagle News) — The first case of the so-called double mutation variant of…

Covid 3rd wave peak in France ‘appears to be behind us’: PM

PARIS, France (AFP) -- The peak of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in France "appears to be behind…

3 rockets hit Baghdad airport base housing US troops: security sources

  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) -- Three rockets crashed into a base at the Iraqi capital's airport housing US troops Friday,…

UK reports 32 deaths from clots after AZ jabs

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- A total of 168 people have suffered rare blood clots after taking the AstraZeneca coronavirus…

UAE warns of restrictions for unvaccinated as doses near landmark

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) -- The UAE announced Wednesday it had given nearly 10 million vaccine doses, equal to…

Germany seeking to buy 30 million Sputnik doses from Russia: state premier

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) -- Germany is in talks with Russia to buy 30 million doses of the Sputnik V coronavirus…

WHO seeks next steps in Covid origins probe

by Nina LARSON GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- After an international mission to China turned up more questions than answers about…

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