Pfizer Says COVID Booster Offers Protection Against Omicron
Written by LAURAN NEERGAARD Pfizer said Wednesday that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine may...
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End of an Era: Germany’s Merkel Bows Out After 16 Years
Written by GEIR MOULSON Angela Merkel was assured of a place in the history books as soon as she became Germany’s first female chancellor on Nov. 22, 2005. Over the next 16 years, she was credited with raising Germany’s profile...
Read MoreMajor Outage at Amazon Disrupts Businesses Across the US
Written by FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. companies for more than five hours, the latest sign of just how...
Read MoreIndia’s Military Chief, 12 Others Killed in Helicopter Crash
Written by SHEIKH SAALIQ and ASHOK SHARMA India’s military chief, Gen. Bipin Rawat, and 12 others were killed Wednesday in a helicopter crash in southern Tamil Nadu state, the air force said. It said in a tweet that the...
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Biden To Warn Putin of Economic Pain if He Invades Ukraine
Written by AAMER MADHANI and DASHA LITVINOVA President Joe Biden is ready to warn Vladimir Putin...
Read MoreDesperation Drives Thousands of Afghans a Day Across Borders
Written by LEE KEATH and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Over the course of an hour on a recent night, the bus waiting in the Herat station filled with passengers. Mostly young men, they had no luggage, just the clothes on their backs, maybe a...
Read MoreArmed Gangs Raise Risks in Vaccinating Rural Nigerians
Written by CHINEDU ASADU Yunusa Bawa rolled his motorcycle away from the health care clinic where he works in Kuje, southwest of Nigeria’s capital of Abuja, and secured a black box of COVID-19 vaccine for the rough ride ahead....
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Convicted in Further Blow to Democracy
Written by GRANT PECK Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of Myanmar who was ousted in a de...
Read MoreChina Attacks Potential US Diplomatic Boycott of Olympics
Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS China on Monday threatened to take “firm countermeasures” if the U.S. proceeds with a diplomatic boycott of February’s Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian...
Read MoreFauci Says Early Reports Encouraging About Omicron Variant
Written by GENE JOHNSON U.S. health officials said Sunday that while the omicron variant of the coronavirus is rapidly spreading throughout the country, early indications suggest it may be less dangerous than delta, which...
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