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Spain extends AstraZeneca vaccine jabs to over 65s

MADRID, Spain (AFP) -- Spain's health ministry announced Tuesday that it was extending the roll-out of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine…

Japan raises alert level after volcano erupts

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- A volcano in southwestern Japan has erupted, flinging large rocks hundreds of metres from the crater…

More than 80% of intubated Covid patients die in Brazil

  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) -- More than 80 percent of Covid-19 patients who have to be intubated in…

Video shows Asian-American woman attacked on New York street

https://youtu.be/5dLlo175c3E   NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- New York police were searching Tuesday for a man who violently attacked…

Global leaders push for pandemic preparedness treaty

  by Robin MILLARD Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- World leaders pushed Tuesday for a new international treaty…

Blast damages Covid-defiant Dutch church

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) -- Dutch police said a small explosion Tuesday damaged a church near Rotterdam which had reopened…

Myanmar crackdown death toll passes 500

YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) -- The death toll in the Myanmar military's crackdown on protesters has passed 500, as armed rebel…

Biden ramps up Covid vaccinations but warns ‘war far from won’

by Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US President Joe Biden's administration on Monday announced a raft of new…

US to invest heavily to boost offshore wind farms

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The US government on Monday unveiled plans to bolster offshore wind farms with the goal…

Search on for 11 trapped in illegal goldmine in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) -- Rescuers were working against the clock to rescue 11 people trapped in a flooded illegal goldmine…

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