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FOR USE WITH VIRUS OUTBREAK CHINA HUNGARY VACCINE FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, April 1, 2021, vials of COVID-19 vaccines produced by Chinese Sinopharm are seen in the office of general practitioner Gyorgy Teleki in Taplanszentkereszt, Hungary. A new study appears to back up public concern in Hungary that a Sinopharm vaccine may not protect the elderly from COVID-19, raising questions for the dozens of countries that have given the Chinese company's shots to their most vulnerable populations. (Istvan Filep/MTI via AP, File)
Study: Chinese COVID shot may offer elderly poor protection
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A new study suggests that a Sinopharm vaccine offers poor protection from COVID-19 among the elderly, raising questions for dozens of countries that have given the … more
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Oslo 20210722..People lay roses at the July 22 memorial outside Oslo Cathedral, 10 years after the terrorist attack on July 22, 2011..Photo: Beate Oma Dahle / NTB
Norway mourns 77 dead a decade after extremist attack
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Church bells rang out across Norway on Thursday, marking 10 years since the country's worst ever peacetime slaughter as commemoration ceremonies took place throughout the … more
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This undated photo released by Tokyo 2020 shows Kentaro Kobayashi, a key director of Tokyo Olympics’ opening ceremony. The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee dismissed the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday, July 22, 2021 because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. (©Tokyo 2020 via AP)
Olympic opening ceremony director fired for Holocaust joke
TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing … more
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Zeng Yixin, Vice Minister of China's National Health Commission, speaks at a press conference at the State Council Information Office in Beijing, Thursday, July 22, 2021. Zeng said Thursday he was taken aback by the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a COVID-19 origins study. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
China rebuffs WHO's terms for further COVID-19 origins study
BEIJING (AP) — China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday. Zeng … more
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Workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the body of a victim of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a muslim cemetery in Gombak, outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. The movement control order (MCO) currently enforced across the country, has been extended to Feb. 18, to try to halt the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Death rates soar in Southeast Asia as virus wave spreads
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Indonesia has converted nearly its entire oxygen production to medical use just to meet the demand from COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe. Overflowing … more
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The wooden bridge, right, connecting the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Experts say the rickety bridge that allows access to the Holy Land's most sensitive religious site is at imminent risk of collapse. But the shrine's delicate position at the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict prevents it from being repaired -- raising fears of another disaster just months after 45 people were killed in a stampede at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish shrine where organizers had also ignored years of safety warnings. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Politics foil replacing hazardous bridge to Jerusalem site
JERUSALEM (AP) — A rickety bridge allowing access to Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site is at risk of collapse, according to experts. But the flashpoint shrine's delicate position at … more
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FILE — In this March 23, 2010 file photo ice cream moves along the production line at Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, in Waterbury, Vt. Ben & Jerry's ice cream said Monday, July 19, 2021, it was going to stop selling its ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
Ben & Jerry's to stop sales in West Bank, east Jerusalem
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Ben & Jerry's said Monday it was going to stop selling its ice cream in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and contested east Jerusalem, saying the sales in the … more
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FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2020, file photo, a Microsoft computer is among items displayed at a Microsoft store in suburban Boston. The Biden administration on Monday, July 19, 2021, blamed China for a hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software that compromised tens of thousands of computers around the world earlier in the year. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File
Microsoft Exchange hack caused by China, US and allies say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that criminal hackers … more
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Haiti’s interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph giving a press conference at his home in Port-au-Prince, Friday, July 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)
New Haiti leader with international backing to take charge
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A new prime minister supported by key international diplomats will take charge of Haiti, an official said Monday — a move that appeared aimed at averting a … more
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18 July 2021, Rhineland-Palatinate, Ahrweiler: Completely destroyed is this bridge over the Ahr in Ahrweiler after the flood disaster. (Aerial view with a drone). Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa
Europe flooding toll over 180 as rescuers dig deeper
BERLIN (AP) — The death toll from flooding in Western Europe climbed above 180 on Sunday after rescue workers dug deeper into debris left by receding waters. Heavy rain fueled new floods in … more
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