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South Korea’s COVID Battle: Storm Clouds Ahead

US Campaign to Vaccinate Young Children Off to Sluggish Start

Experts: Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Games Needs More Nations for Impact

US Actor Convicted of Staging Attack, Lying to Police

UN Chief to Attend Beijing Games Despite Boycotts

Calls Grow Worldwide for COVID Booster Shots

South African Hospitals Say Omicron Symptoms Less Severe

South Africa Avoiding Lockdown Despite Spike in COVID-19 Cases

Two Sisters Hit New York to Get City to Sing – With Them

Pakistan Reports First Case of Omicron

New Zealand’s Plan to End Smoking: A Lifetime Ban for Youth

US Authorizes AstraZeneca COVID Drug for a Few Who Can’t be Vaccinated

US Senate Rejects Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Businesses

California Plans to Be Abortion Sanctuary if Roe Overturned

What Caused Amazon’s Outage?

Omicron Spreading Rapidly as Answers on Risk Remain Elusive

WHO Chief Says World Must Act to Prevent Spread of Omicron Variant

Google Releases 2021’s ‘Most Searched’ Items

98-Year-Old NYC Photographer Shows Life as Is – From WWII to Today

Australia Announces Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics 

Japanese Tycoon Takes Off for International Space Station

UN Chief Isolating After COVID-19 Exposure

Amazon Cloud Outage Hits Major Websites, Streaming Apps

America Should Prepare for More Omicron Cases, US Health Officials Say

Artificial Intelligence Works to Outsmart Governments’ Internet Censorship

Preliminary Study Suggests Omicron Variant May Be Less Severe Than Other Versions

Rohingya Refugees Sue Facebook for $150 Billion Over Myanmar Violence

Three Vaccines Use Other Viruses to Protect Against COVID-19

Three Vaccines Use Nonlethal Viruses to Protect Against the More Deadly COVID-19

Nobel Prizes Awarded in Pandemic-Curtailed Local Ceremonies

NASA: New Software Assesses Threats from Asteroids More Accurately

South African Tech Firm Creates App to Tackle Gender-Based Violence

Xenobots – US Scientists Create Tiny Living Robots That Can Reproduce

COVID-19 Disruptions Linked to Rise in Malaria Infections, Deaths

Reports: Biden Admin Expected to Announce Diplomatic Boycott of 2022 Beijing Winter Games

Dictionary.com Anoints Allyship Word of the Year for 2021

Kennedy Center Honors, Its Traditions Are Back Once More

Stuck Jet Stream, La Nina Causing Weird Weather

Mogadishu Book Fair Resumes after COVID-19 Lockdown Postponement

Traditional Wrestling Continues as a Friday Fixture in Kabul

Cameroon Launches Vaccination Campaign to Contain Measles Outbreak

Absence of Dissident Artist’s Works Spurs Fears of Hong Kong Art Censorship

India Tests Drone Deliveries for COVID-19 Vaccines in Remote Jammu

US State Department Phones Hacked With Israeli Company Spyware, Sources Say

Botswana Gets WHO Award for Mother-to-Child HIV Prevention Milestone

Fauci: About Two-Week Wait Before Omicron Threat Is Known

Egypt Reopens 3,400-Year-Old ‘Avenue of the Sphinxes’

Alec Baldwin Denies Responsibility for Fatal Shooting on Movie Set

New Zealand Introduces New COVID-19 Management System

Suspect Arrested in Death of Philanthropist Jacqueline Avant

Multiple Cases of Omicron Variant Detected In New York City

Omicron and Vaccines: What You Should Know

NASA Astronauts Conduct Previously Postponed Spacewalk

UK Court Backs Meghan in Dispute over Privacy with Publisher

Actor Baldwin on Fatal Movie Set Shooting: ‘I Didn’t Pull the Trigger’

US Seeks Norms for Outer Space After ‘Irresponsible’ Russia Test

Biden Marks 33rd World AIDS Day With New Commitments

Jacqueline Avant, Wife of Music Legend, Killed in Shooting

Biden HIV/AIDS Strategy Calls Racism ‘Public Health Threat’

EU Leaders Consider Mandatory Vaccinations to Fight Omicron Variant