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Some countries say the waiver should apply not only to vaccines, but to treatments, diagnostics, medical devices and protective equipment, along with the material and components needed to produce them.

The UK officials working on the review into COVID-19 status certificates believe there is no chance the law will be changed to mandate their use within the UK.

Tage Thompson had a goal and an assist and the United States won its fourth straight game in the world hockey championship, beating Norway 21 on Saturday.

Fourteen university students and staff abducted from their school in northwestern Nigeria were released Saturday after spending more than a month in captivity.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.

The vaccine was "well tolerated" in children and there were no "major concerns" in terms of side effects, the Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency said.

People sexually abused as adults would have a chance to sue the perpetrators even if the usual deadline to bring a lawsuit had expired under a bill gaining momentum in New Yorks legislature.

The Louisiana House overwhelmingly gave final passage Thursday to legislation prohibiting transgender athletes from competing on girls sports teams in schools, sending the measure to Gov. John Bel Edwards, who is expected to veto the bill.

The Metropolitan Opera would be able to cut the fees of its highestpaid individual singers by 12.7% under a pending fouryear contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists.

The U.N. humanitarian chief warned the Security Council that the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopias embattled Tigray region is worsening and there is a serious risk of famine if assistance is not scaled up in the next two months.

One of Wisconsin's top Republican lawmakers said Wednesday he is hiring retired police officers to investigate the presidential election won by President Joe Biden in the battleground state.

Chad Daybell made his first appearance in Idaho court Wednesday on three murder charges in connection with the deaths of his late wife and his new wife's two children.

WHO has said the report contained factual inaccuracies and was published prematurely and without securing all approvals.

Asad Ali Toor, who is also a YouTuber, was tied, gagged, severely beaten outside his residence in the upscale F-10 sector late on Tuesday night.

Two stolen handcarved religious artifacts, sandstone lintels dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries, were returned to the Thai government on Tuesday in a ceremony more than 50 years overdue.

U.S. prosecutors in 2019 sought the electronic messages of two exUkrainian government officials and a Ukrainian businessman as part of their probe of Rudy Giuliani's dealings in that country, a lawyer accidentally revealed in a court filing Tuesday.