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India hits 4,000 virus deaths in a day
The 4,187 new deaths took India's overall toll to 238,270 since the pandemic started. It added another 401,078 new cases in 24 hours taking its caseload to...
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'No doubt' US has undercounted Covid deaths: Fauci
The country has officially lost over 581,000 people to the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus -- but a University of Washington study released Thursday estimated deaths at more than 900,000.
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Thousand migrants land on Italy's Lampedusa
The arrivals sparked calls from far-right politicians for urgent action, amid fresh tensions between Italian authorities and the rescue boats who operate in the central Mediterranean.
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Coronavirus: Latest global developments
India reports a record new Covid-19 daily death toll of over 4,000 and more than 400,000 new cases as the country grapples with the world's worst coronavirus surge.
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AZ vaccine order renewal 'remains to be seen': EU
The EU last month launched legal action against the pharmaceutical giant for vaccine delivery shortfalls that hampered efforts to kickstart inoculations across the bloc.
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Large Chinese rocket segment disintegrates over Indian Ocean
Officials in Beijing had said there was little risk from the freefalling segment of the Long March-5B rocket, which had launched the first module of China's new space station into Earth orbit on 29 April.
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Death toll rises to 50 from blasts near Afghan girls school
The Saturday's blasts -- the deadliest in more than a year -- rocked the west Kabul district of Dasht-e-Barchi, a regular target of Sunni Islamist militants.
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Disappointing April jobs data pose new challenge for Biden agenda
The weak hiring also pushed the unemployment rate up slightly to 6.1%, according to the Labor Department's monthly employment report released on Friday.
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Merkel urges US to export Covid vaccines
"Now that a further part of the American population has been vaccinated, I hope that we can come to a free exchange of components and an opening of the market for vaccines," she said, adding the EU has exported a big chunk of jabs made in the bloc and that should "be the rule".
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Defects, damage suspected in Mexico metro disaster
Sergio Alcocer, a researcher at the engineering faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said that the collapse 'may be due to a defect in the steel' used to make the beams.
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India hits 4,000 virus deaths in a day
The 4,187 new deaths took India's overall toll to 238,270 since the pandemic started. It added another 401,078 new cases in 24 hours taking its caseload to nearly 21.9 million - second only to the United States.
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Israeli police, Palestinians clash at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque
At least 163 Palestinians and six Israeli officers were reported wounded at Al-Aqsa and elsewhere in east Jerusalem, as the Palestinian Red Crescent said it had opened a field hospital because emergency rooms were full.
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WHO approves China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine
The UN health agency signed off on the two-dose vaccine, which is already being deployed in dozens of countries around the world.
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Chauvin, three other officers face new charges for George Floyd death
The federal charges unsealed on Friday are separate from those brought against the former officers by the state of Minnesota.
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Trump welcomes end of probe into Stormy Daniels 'hush money' payments
The Federal Election Commission had been investigating whether a $130,000 payment to the porn star by Donald Trump's then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen was a violation of campaign finance laws.
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In US, children return to school, but so do the guns
The return of children to school after extended remote learning has come with an unfortunate uptick in gun violence.
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Germany's third virus wave 'appears to have broken': minister
Germany's Robert Koch Institute health agency recorded 18,485 new infections in the past 24 hours on Friday -- compared with 27,543 on the same day two weeks ago.
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Land rights case sparks new east Jerusalem clashes
The second straight night of rioting in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood was fuelled by a years-long land dispute between Palestinian refugees and Jewish settlers in the strategic district near Jerusalem's Old City.
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Japan to extend emergency virus measures as Olympics approach
The emergency measures, which are less strict than blanket lockdowns elsewhere, had been due to end on 11 May but are now expected to continue until the end of the month.
