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New York’s health commissioner resigns over COVID-19 handling
New York’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Oxiris Barbot, has resigned over alleged under-utilisation of the department’s “incomparable disease control expertise.”...
Read moreWoman stopped at airport with husband’s bones in luggage
A 74-year-old Armenian woman was stopped at Munich airport and human bones were found in her luggage, German federal police...
Read moreEgypt, Ethiopia, Sudan resume talks on disputed dam
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have resumed negotiations on the filling and operation of a controversial dam being built by Addis...
Read moreMissing sailors found in Micronesia thanks to SOS written in sand
Three missing sailors have been found on a tiny island in the western Pacific after they wrote an outsized SOS...
Read moreU.S. judge whose son was killed by gunman speaks out
A U.S. Federal Judge whose son was killed and husband wounded by a gunman disguised as a FedEx driver detailed...
Read moreIslamic State storm Afghan jail, freeing hundreds of prisoners
More than 300 prisoners were at large, on Monday, after an attack by Islamic State on an Afghan prison, the...
Read moreNew term, new rules as first German schools return amid pandemic
Tens of thousands of schoolchildren are returning to school in northern Germany from Monday, as the end of the summer...
Read more15 countries purchase Russia’s Avifavir COVID-19 medication – Direct Investment Fund
Russia says it is delivering its Avifavir medication against COVID-19 to 15 countries already. Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the...
Read moreHeavy rains in South Korea kill at least a dozen people
At least a dozen people have been killed over the weekend due to storms with heavy rains and landslides in...
Read moreFrance to push for rights sanctions in EU recovery plan – Minister
France will push for financial sanctions under the EU’s 750 billion euro ($880 billion) coronavirus recovery fund against states that...
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