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World

15 Dec
Thousands of tones of knock-off clothing from Europe and the US are being piled up in a mass dump of unwanted fast-fashions in the remote vastness of Chile's Atacama Desert on Monday. A clandestine giant dump...
15 Dec
The U.N. weather agency said on Tuesday it has certified a 38-degree Celsius reading in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk last year as the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic. The World Meteorological...
15 Dec
The Dutch government ordered elementary schools to close a week early for Christmas holidays on Tuesday. Caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte also extended the country's existing lockdown until Jan. 14, saying...
15 Dec
Members of Congress gathered on the U.S. Capitol steps on Tuesday night to mark a grim milestone: 800,000 deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and...
15 Dec
Pfizer said on Tuesday that its experimental pill to treat COVID-19 appears effective against the omicron variant. The company also says full results of its 2,250-person study confirmed the pill's promising...
14 Dec
In southern Finland, an architect-designer has returned to a frozen lake with a snow shovel to draw a large animal on the ice for the sixth year in a row to create a short-lived artwork. He hopes that will make...
14 Dec
Australia said on Tuesday it plans to start making mRNA vaccines at home with a new plant that could produce up to 100 million doses each year. Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Melbourne that the...
14 Dec
President Joe Biden said on Monday that he will travel to Kentucky on Wednesday to view damage from last week's devastating tornadoes that killed at least 64 people and displaced thousands more. Biden...
14 Dec
A gem company in Sri Lanka has unveiled a rare and massive gemstone weighing 683 pounds. That has been certified as one of the biggest corundums ever found in the country. Sri Lanka's National Gem and...
14 Dec
Mexican music star Vicente Fernández died on Sunday morning, family members reported. He was 81 years old. Relatives said Fernandez died on Sunday at 6:15 a.m. Plans for his funeral had not been announced...

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