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Australia-New Zealand travel bubble opens with joy, tears
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - As the passengers walked a little dazed through the airport gates, they were embraced one after another by family members who rushed forward and dissolved into tears. Elation...
Apr 19, 2021
Bitter experience helps French ICUs crest latest virus wave
ROUEN, France - Slowly suffocating in a French intensive care ward, Patrick Aricique feared he would die from his diseased lungs that felt "completely burned from the inside, burned like the cathedral...
Apr 19, 2021
UK's Johnson cancels India trip as its virus cases surge
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called off a trip to India amid surging coronavirus cases in the country. The British and Indian governments said Monday that "in the light of the cur...
Apr 19, 2021
German Greens launch chancellor bid as Merkel bloc squabbles
BERLIN - Germany's environmentalist Greens chose co-leader Annalena Baerbock on Monday to make their first bid for the chancellery in the country's September election, while a power struggle in Chance...
Apr 19, 2021
Australia reverses decision to withhold medals from veterans
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's government on Monday reversed a decision to strip soldiers of unit citations due to war crime allegations in Afghanistan and announced an inquiry into suicides among ...
Apr 19, 2021
India's capital to lock down as nation's virus cases top 15M
New Delhi was being put under a weeklong lockdown Monday night as an explosive surge in coronavirus cases pushed the India's capital's health system to its limit. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said i...
Apr 19, 2021
Video: Louisville officer punches protester during arrest
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A police officer in Kentucky was seen on video repeatedly punching a protester in the head while the man was face down on the ground and being arrested by several officers during a p...
Apr 19, 2021
Japan asks Myanmar junta to release arrested journalist
TOKYO - Japan's government said Monday it is asking Myanmar to release a Japanese journalist who was arrested by security forces in its largest city of Yangon the previous day. Chief Cabinet Secretary...
Apr 19, 2021
Biden pressed on emissions goal as climate summit nears
WASHINGTON - When President Joe Biden convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday, he faces a vexing task: how to put forward a nonbinding but symbolic goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that w...
Apr 19, 2021
Radical Islamist party frees 11 Pakistani police hostages
LAHORE, Pakistan - An outlawed Pakistani Islamist political group freed 11 policemen almost a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the...
Apr 19, 2021
