International News

Longtime Canadian IOC member Dick Pound is defending his organization's decision to stage the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, despite heavy criticism of China's human-rights record. In an interview with Germany's Deutschlandfunk radio, the…
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(Reuters) – Germany will stop paying compensation to unvaccinated workers who are forced into quarantine by coronavirus measures, as it is unfair to ask taxpayers to subsidise those who refuse to get inoculated, Health Minister Jens Spahn…
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Associated Press – A man wearing full body armor fatally shot four people, including a mother and the 3-month-old baby she was cradling, and engaged in a massive gunfight with police and deputies before he was wounded and surrendered, a…
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Al Jazeera - Wealthy countries could potentially have a surplus of more than one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses available by the end of the year that are not designated as donations to poorer nations, according to a new analysis Vaccine…
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(Reuters) - As Australia's COVID-19 deaths exceed 1,000 – a grim toll, but modest by global standards – a country that has used relentless lockdowns now faces perhaps its biggest health policy challenge of the pandemic: how to reopen. The…
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Real Madrid have confirmed new signing David Alaba has tested positive for coronavirus. Alaba, who played in all of Austria's Euro 2020 matches, agreed to join Madrid following the expiration of his contract with Bayern Munich, where he…
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Associated Press - Haiti’s political future on Sunday grew murkier after the surprise return of first lady Martine Moïse, who was released from a hospital in Miami where she was treated for injuries following an attack in which the…
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Al Jazeera - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has described the flooding that ravaged parts of her country as “surreal” and “terrifying”, as the death toll from floods in Western Europe climbed above 180 with dozens still missing.   Merkel…
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Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Marcus Rashford has gone away to "reflect" on whether to have surgery at the end of the month. Forward Rashford saw a specialist last week and feels an operation is the only way of…
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England's spinners squeezed Pakistan to claim an emphatic 45-run victory in the second Twenty20 and level the series at 1-1. Although Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali and Liam Livingstone - who twice hit sixes out of Headingley - all sparkled with…
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