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Coast Guard finds 4 more bodies off Florida coast but will call off search
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Authorities have found a total of five bodies, leaving 34 missing. The Coast Guard says it will call off its active search for survivors at sunset Thursday if it doesn't receive any new information.
WHO staffers accused its Western Pacific director of racism and abuse
Thursday, January 27, 2022
The allegations were laid out in an internal complaint sent by unidentified "concerned WHO staff" to senior leadership.
China is demanding the U.S. end its 'interference' in Beijing Olympics
Thursday, January 27, 2022
The Foreign Ministry said Minister Wang Yi made the demand in a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday Beijing time.
Iran is undergoing a mass vaccination campaign as omicron looms
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Iran has found a rare, if fleeting, respite from the anxiety and trauma of the pandemic.
Patient who refused COVID vaccine was denied a heart transplant
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston said the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several immunizations required by most U.S. transplant programs.
North Korea fires two suspected missiles in sixth round of launches this month
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
North Korea last week issued a veiled threat to resume testing nuclear explosives and long-range missiles targeting the U.S.
Prince Andrew again seeks dismissal of sexual abuse suit, demands a trial if it's not
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Among Andrew's grounds for dismissal is that if any sexual activity did occur between the prince and Virginia Giuffre, it was consensual.
A Texas man is accused of selling gun used to take synagogue hostages
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Earlier Wednesday, British police said they arrested two more men in Manchester related to the hostage-taking incident.
U.K.'s Boris Johnson braces for 'partygate' investigation report
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Senior civil servant Sue Gray could turn in her report to the government as soon as Wednesday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office promised to publish its findings.
Indonesia's capital is rapidly sinking into the sea
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Now the government is leaving, and moving the country's capital to the island of Borneo.
A town in Mexico survives entirely on money sent back by U.S. migrants
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
The money has allowed their families to remain in Comachuen, a town in the Michoacan mountains rather than moving to other parts of Mexico for work.
Russia has officially named jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny a terrorist
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Navalny and eight of his allies — including top aides Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov — were on Tuesday added to the registry by Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service.
New York's mask mandate temporarily restored by appeals judge
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Monday's ruling that overturned the mandate caused confusion, with some school administrators quickly announcing masks would be optional and others continuing to enforce wearing them.
Testimony begins in the dueling defamation suits over Roy Moore molestation claims
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
The allegations overshadowed Moore's 2017 campaign as he fell in a stunning defeat to Doug Jones, the first Alabama Democrat elected to the Senate in 25 years.
At least 6 people are reported dead from a crush at an African Cup soccer match
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
The apparent stampede outside of a stadium in Cameroon has renewed the focus on prior warnings that the nation was ill-equipped to host the continent's biggest sporting event.
Anti-abortion groups are raking in fundraising as Supreme Court decision looms
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Susan B. Anthony List secured $20 million in pledged financial contributions, five times more than it has had at the outset of an election year over its 30-year history,
Yemen's Houthis have launched two attacks against the U.A.E. — here's why
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
The attacks underscore how Yemen's civil war, which has ground on for over seven years, can flare into a regional danger.
COVID outbreak on relief ship causes fears of spread in Tonga
Monday, January 24, 2022
Since the pandemic began, Tonga has reported just a single case of COVID-19 and has avoided any outbreaks.
Afghanistan's Taliban have started their first talks in Europe since takeover
Monday, January 24, 2022
Taliban representatives will be certain to press their demand that nearly $10 billion frozen by the United States be released as Afghanistan faces a precarious humanitarian situation.
California's embattled utility leaves criminal probation, but more charges loom
Monday, January 24, 2022
Since 2017 the utility has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires that wiped out more than 23,000 homes and businesses and killed more than 100 people.