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US preparing for Nov. 1 rollout of first coronavirus vaccine: report

Sept 3, 2020

WASHINGTON -- The United States is getting ready to start distributing its first new coronavirus vaccine just before the presidential election, a news report said Wednesday, raising questions over th...
Ethnic Mongolians in China protest switch to Mandarin schooling

Sept 1, 2020

BEIJING (AFP) -- Tens of thousands of people in an ethnic Mongolian region of northern China have joined rare protests and school boycotts against a new curriculum they fear will wipe out their minor...
UN agency laments summer's 'deep wound' to Earth's ice cover

Sept 1, 2020

GENEVA (AP) -- The United Nations weather agency says this summer will go down for leaving a "deep wound" in the cryosphere -- the planet's frozen parts -- amid a heat wave in the Arctic, shrinking s...
Who's next? Abe's party maneuvers to pick Japan's next PM

Sept 1, 2020

TOKYP (AP) -- With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announcing his plans to step down due to health reasons, members of his ruling party are furiously maneuvering ahead of an internal vote that will ultimat...
Japan's Suga hopes to succeed PM Abe, race heats up: media

Aug 30, 2020

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga will join the race to succeed his boss Shinzo Abe as prime minister, local media said on Sunday, as the competition heats up to succe...
'7 bullets, 7 days': Protesters march for Blake in Kenosha

Aug 30, 2020

KENOSHA (AP) -- With chants of "One person, one vote!" and "No justice, no peace!" a crowd of about 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside a Wisconsin courthouse Saturday to denounce police violence an...
Trump to visit Kenosha in wake of racial unrest

Aug 30, 2020

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- US President Donald Trump will travel next week to the Midwestern city where African American Jacob Blake was shot multiple times in the back by a white policeman, sparking a nati...
Japan's Abe says he's resigning for health reasons

Aug 28, 2020

Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said Friday he intends to step down because a chronic health problem has resurfaced. He told reporters that it was "gut wrenching" to leave so many...
Search for bodies as Afghan floods kill more than 160

Aug 27, 2020

CHARIKAR (AFP) -- Rescue workers were searching Thursday for bodies in the debris of collapsed houses after flash floods fuelled by torrential rains killed at least 162 people in Afghanistan. At lea...
Russian police launch initial 'check' into Navalny case

Aug 27, 2020

MOSCOW (AFP) -- Russian police announced on Thursday they had begun a preliminary examination of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's illness after the Kremlin dismissed German doctors' findings that h...
China cosies up to EU as US tensions high

Aug 26, 2020

ROME (AFP) -- China's foreign minister on Tuesday kicked off a tour of a Europe still reeling from coronavirus, as he seeks to shore up economic and diplomatic relations in light of tensions with the...
[Graphic News] One-third of US children, adolescents eat fast-food daily

Aug 24, 2020

More than one-third of children and adolescents across the United States eat fast-food each day, according to new figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2018, 36 percen...
[Graphic News] Shinzo Abe under fire for coronavirus response: survey

Aug 19, 2020

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received the lowest approval rating in a recent survey covering six countries and their response to the global coronavirus pandemic. The poll conducted by US-Ger...
Ryanair cuts Sept, Oct flights as virus hits demand

Aug 17, 2020

DUBLIN (AFP) -- Ryanair will cut its September and October timetable by "20 percent" on weaker-than-expected demand following renewed virus-linked travel restrictions in some European countries, the ...
Amazon France withdraws ads for child-like sex dolls

Aug 17, 2020

PARIS (AFP) -- Amazon France has withdrawn advertisements for child-like sex dolls from its website after an online outcry, the French government said Monday. The French AIVI anti-paedophilia moveme...