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Nigeria has received 501,600 doses of AstraZeneca's COVID19 vaccine from the French government through the COVAX vaccinesharing facility, a senior health official said on Thursday.

Turkey hosts some four million migrants, mostly Syrians, and has come under renewed pressure after the takeover of Afghanistan by the Islamist Taliban in August prompted a mass exodus.

Fifteen people were killed on Tuesday and three others went missing in continuous rain storms that hit north China's Shanxi Province.

Mexico's president on Wednesday hailed a U.S. decision to open their shared border in November after more than 18 months of pandemic restrictions, though millions of Mexicans inoculated with Chinese and Russian vaccines face being shut out.

Bradley Bunn had a request after being arrested for building four pipe bombs he intended to use against any officers who tried to seize his guns: He wanted to meet with the federal prosecutor leading the case against him, a member of the Navy Reserve.

Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said Wednesday that Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson does not speak for North Carolina, a reference to comments that Robinson made about sex education in public schools that critics say plainly disparaged LGBTQ people.

An air and ground offensive by Ethiopian troops and their allies against rebellious forces from the northern Tigray region is intensifying, a spokesperson for the Tigrayan forces said on Wednesday, claiming "staggering" casualties.

A man armed with a bow and arrows killed several people and wounded others Wednesday near the Norwegian capital of Oslo before he was arrested, authorities said.

The 33yearold Texas woman drove alone four hours through the night to get to the Louisiana abortion clinic for a consultation. She initially planned to sleep in her car, but an advocacy group helped arrange a hotel room.

Governments are also stepping up their policies to curb emissions. India has ratcheted up efficiency standards for new air-conditioners.

President Joe Biden will host Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for a meeting in Washington on Thursday as the White House weighs sanctions against parties to the conflict in a northern region of the neighboring East African country of Ethiopia.

The European Union envoy coordinating talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal, Enrique Mora, will visit Tehran on Thursday, the Iranian foreign ministry said on Tuesday, as a date is still to be set to relaunch the stalled negotiations.

Putin blamed the cough on the cool air temperature and took the opportunity to urge his colleagues to get fully vaccinated.

Regardless of the evolving understanding of natural immunity, scientists agree that for people who were never infected, vaccines are much safer, and far less a gamble, than Covid-19.

Russia defenders Igor Diveyev and Georgy Dzhikiya netted first half goals to secure a 21 win away to Slovenia in a World Cup qualifier on Monday and took the visitors top of Group H.

Jason Isaacs was at a Starbucks when he sat down to read the script for Mass for the first time. It was a decision hed come to regret, if only because at some point he started heaving with sobs and couldnt stop. Strangers in the shop looked at him like...