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10 Dec
A Chilean law permitting same-sex couples to marry and adopt was signed into law Thursday by President Sebastián Piñera in a ceremony attended by activists for LGBT and broader human rights. The...
10 Dec
New German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visited Brussels and held talks with the EU's Foreign Affairs Representative Josep Borrell. Borrell welcomed her visit and applauded her new appointment as...
10 Dec
President Joe Biden welcomed as "good news" word that U.S. health authorities again expanded the nation's booster campaign by opening extra doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to several million...
9 Dec
Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't be allowed in most California trash bins under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's set to take effect...
9 Dec
Authorities in Australia issued an emergency warning on Thursday over a wildfire burning in the country's south west. The wildfire was burning in a large area of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park near the...
9 Dec
The WHO's director-general on Wednesday called on nations to act to contain the spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said "The omicron variant has...
9 Dec
A Japanese billionaire and his producer boarded the International Space Station on Wednesday, the first visit by self-paying space tourists to the orbiting outpost in more than a decade. Fashion tycoon Yusaku...
9 Dec
A father and son have been arrested on suspicion of starting a massive California wildfire that forced tens of thousands to flee the Lake Tahoe area earlier this year.  David Scott Smith and his son,...
9 Dec
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday announced a move to 'Plan B' restrictions as Britain faces a surge in cases of the omicron variant of coronavirus. The Prime Minister told that work-from-home...
9 Dec
Pfizer says a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine may protect against the new omicron variant.  Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said that while two doses may not be protective enough to prevent infection,...

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