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GENEVA (AP) – When the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic on Thursday a year ago, it did so only after weeks of resisting the term and arguing that the …

TOKYO (AP) – Japan marked Thursday the 10th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that struck its northeastern region, where the lives of many survivors are still on hold. With …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Brazil’s hospitals are failing as a highly contagious variant of coronavirus sweeps the country, the president insists on unproven treatments and the only attempt to create a …

LONDON (AP) – The global community will discover “fairly soon, in the next few years,” what started the coronavirus pandemic, a key member of a World Health Organization-led investigation into the origins …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The comprehensive pandemic relief package Awaiting the signature of President Joe Biden aims to help the United States defeat the virus and help the economy return to health. Legislation …

BERLIN (AP) – Eager to deliver hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccines that have been piling up, Germany has begun to increase use of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after authorities said …

WASHINGTON (AP) – A Congress divided along partisan lines passed a $ 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill on Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats proclaimed the triumph of a bill mandating …

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – After receiving its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine, Ukraine found itself in a new fight against the pandemic, persuading its largely reluctant people to get vaccinated. Although infections …

The head of the UN food agency warned after a visit to Yemen that his underfunded organization could be forced to seek hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations in a …

Research reveals that the new coronavirus strain B.1.1.7 is significantly more lethal than previous variants. A highly infectious variant of COVID-19 first discovered in the UK is 30 to 100 percent more …