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Written by By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer

Published: 28 February 2022

 

Russian teams were suspended Monday from all international soccer, including qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup, as Moscow was pushed toward pariah status in sports for its invasion of Ukraine.

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Written by YURAS KARMANAU, JIM HEINTZ, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press

Published: 24 February 2022

 

Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. 

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Written by By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press

Published: 21 February 2022

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scrapping the last domestic coronavirus restrictions in England even as he acknowledged the potential for new and more deadly variants of the virus.

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Published: 18 February 2022

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A comprehensive new map and report tracking whale migrations around the globe highlights where they go in the high seas and the cumulative impacts the animals face from human activity

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Written by JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press

Published: 07 February 2022

 

Not from political leaders, but from well-known people in Israel and Palestine a new proposal for a two-state confederation has emerged raising hopes for a way forward after a decade-long stalemate in Mideast peace efforts

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Written by By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer

Published: 06 October 2021

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The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the world's first malaria vaccine

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Written by ALAN SUDERMAN, FRANK BAJAK and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press

Published: 01 October 2021

 

Outsiders have long profited from Africa’s riches of gold, diamonds, and even people. Now they are taking plundering millions of Internet addresses

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Written by By SALLY HO Associated Press

Published: 28 September 2021

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More than a year after Black Lives Matter protests launched a worldwide reckoning about the centuries of racism that Black people continue to face, the question of reparations emerged — unevenly — as a high-profile issue at this year’s largest gathering of world leaders.

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Written by MARK STEVENSON and EVENS SANON Associated Press

Published: 16 August 2021

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The country’s Civil Protection Agency said 1,297 dead from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake had been counted by Sunday, a day after the temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble

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Written by REGINA GARCIA CANO and EVENS SANON Associated Press

Published: 15 August 2021

 

A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake added to the misery in Haiti, killing at least 304 people, injuring a minimum of 1,800 others and destroying hundreds of homes