At the height of the pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines that China was supplying.
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The U.S. health regulator has changed its strain recommendation for the 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccines, as it asked manufacturers to update the new shots to target the KP.2 variant, if feasible, instead of the JN.1 lineage it sought to target earlier.
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Reuters uncovers a secret anti-vaccination campaign run by the Pentagon to undermine China during the pandemic.
World leaders gather in Switzerland on Saturday for a summit aimed at pressuring Russia to end its war in Ukraine, but the absence of powerful allies of Moscow such as China will blunt its potential impact.
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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four provinces claimed by Moscow, demands Kyiv swiftly rejected as tantamount to surrender.
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Svitlana Bilous travelled half way across Europe - from her home in Ukraine to a Swiss mountaintop resort - to stand on the sidelines of an international peace summit on Saturday and tell the world about her missing husband.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declared unlawful a federal ban on bump stock devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, rejecting yet another firearms restriction - this time one enacted under Republican former President Donald Trump.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that bankrupt companies are not entitled to be reimbursed to make up for a disparity in bankruptcy fees that lasted from 2018 to 2020, saying that U.S. taxpayers should not be on the hook for refunds that would add up to hundreds of millions of dollars.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took at least three additional trips funded by billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow that the conservative justice failed to disclose, the Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Thursday.
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The African National Congress and its largest rival, the white-led, pro-business Democratic Alliance, agreed on Friday to work together in South Africa's new government of national unity, a step change after 30 years of ANC rule.
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At least four South African political parties agreed on Friday to work together in a new government, but many questions remained about how they will divvy up key jobs and reconcile opposing policy positions.
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Cyril Ramaphosa was set on Friday to be re-elected as South Africa's president, having brokered a deal with the opposition for a government of national unity after his African National Congress's worst election result since the end of apartheid.
The school building in Florida has stood as an empty reminder of the attack on Feb. 14, 2018, with bullet holes and bloodstains still visible.
Donald Trump used his 78th birthday party on Friday to promise deeper tax cuts if he wins the Nov. 5 U.S. election and to make vague predictions of future attacks on U.S. soil after the arrest of Tajik nationals with suspected ISIS ties.
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U.S. President Joe Biden could soon announce a new effort to allow immigrants in the U.S. illegally to obtain legal status if they are married to U.S. citizens, three sources said, an election-year move that could energize some liberal voters.
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The U.S. Justice Department on Friday told Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson that it would decline to pursue criminal contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
DALLAS -- Luka Doncic scored 25 of his 29 points in the first half, Kyrie Irving added 21 points and the Dallas Mavericks avoided a sweep with a 122-84 rout of the Boston Celtics in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday.
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Fifteen-times major winner Tiger Woods said this could very well be his final U.S. Open, after carding a three-over-par 73 that left him at seven over for the week to miss the cut at Pinehurst on Friday.
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The UEFA Euro 2024 tournament kicks off June 14, as hosts Germany take on Scotland in the first match of the group stage.
Long ago in the skies above the shallow Eromanga Sea, which once covered what is now arid inland Australia, soared a formidable pterosaur.
