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New Zealand to end lockdowns early next month

New Zealand will end a three-and-a-half-month lockdown in the country's largest city Auckland early next...

Australia to re-open borders to students, workers, vaccinated citizens of Japan, S Korea

Australia announced Monday it will again welcome foreign students and skilled workers from next month,...

Regional interest in Black Friday declines as pandemic changes consumer habits

Shoppers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia plan to spend less during this year's Black...

Tens of thousands protest Belgium's tighter COVID-19 rules

Ten of thousands of people demonstrated through central Brussels on Sunday to protest reinforced COVID-19...

Venezuela's Maduro: no talks until Alex Saab 'kidnap' answered for

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has vowed there will be no renewed talks with opposition politicians...

Poland accuses Belarus of changing tactics in migrant border crisis

Polish border guards reported new attempted crossings by several groups of people, but apart from...

Biden turns 79 after getting clean bill of health

Joe Biden celebrated his 79th birthday Saturday one day after being declared "healthy" and "fit"...

Europe's COVID crisis pits vaccinated against unvaccinated

This was supposed to be the Christmas in Europe where family and friends could once...

Atlanta airport checkpoint chaos: Man grabs gun, it goes off

A passenger awaiting a search at the Atlanta airport's main security checkpoint reached in his...

Interior secretary seeks to rid U.S. of derogatory place names

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday formally declared “squaw” a derogatory term and said...

Austria to enter lockdown, bring in mandatory vaccinations

Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said Friday that the country will go into a national lockdown...

Houthis ‘reneged on deal’ to free British detainee Luke Symons

Houthi rebel leaders reneged on a promise to release a British prisoner held for more...

Dutch police fire warning shots as COVID riots hit Rotterdam

Dutch police fired warning shots, injuring several people, after rioters against a partial COVID lockdown...

Germany's Christmas markets in limbo as COVID resurges

The mulled wine is brewing and the chestnuts are ready to roast, but with COVID-19...

U.S. drug overdoses top 100,000 in pandemic year

U.S. annual drug overdose deaths surged to more than 100,000 for the first time during...

U.S. cars mandated to spot drunk drivers -- and stop them

Breath-sniffing sensors and finger-scanning detectors are central to a landmark U.S. safety mandate to fight...