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2nd COVID-19 vaccine authorized in US preparing to ship out
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - Workers on Sunday began packaging shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., a desperately needed boost to efforts to bring the coronavirus pandemic under c...
Dec 20, 2020
Asia Today: Outbreak grows in Sydney’s beach suburbs
SYDNEY, Australia - The outbreak in Sydney's northern beach suburbs has grown to 70 cases with an additional 30 in the last 24 hours, and authorities say they may never be able to trace the source. Wh...
Dec 20, 2020
EU-UK trade talks floundering over fish as cutoff day nears
BRUSSELS - Deep into a crucial weekend of negotiations, a breakthrough on fishing rights remained elusive for the European Union and Britain, leaving both without a trade agreement that would dull the...
Dec 20, 2020
Official: Large car bomb kills 9 in Afghan capital
KABUL - A car bomb blast that rocked Afghanistan's capital Sunday morning killed at least nine people, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry. Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi told reporters at th...
Dec 20, 2020
Nepal president dissolves Parliament; elections next spring
KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal's president dissolved Parliament on Sunday after the prime minister recommended the move amid an escalating feud within his Communist Party that is likely to push the Himalaya...
Dec 20, 2020
Thousands line up for tests amid Thailand virus outbreak
SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand - Thousands of people lined up for coronavirus tests in a province near Bangkok on Sunday, as Thai authorities scrambled to contain an outbreak of the virus that has infected ne...
Dec 20, 2020
Pandemic forced Trudeau back to centre stage, improved his political fortunes
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau always knew 2020 was going to be a difficult year, his first leading a minority Liberal government dependent on opposition party support for its survival. But that's turned out...
Dec 20, 2020
Emotional Dr. Theresa Tam very thankful for speed of COVID-19 vaccine delivery
OTTAWA - Canada's top public health officer has been a model of stoicism through the first year of COVID-19, but Dr. Theresa Tam still got a little choked up last week when the first Canadians were in...
Dec 20, 2020
Traditional knowledge at centre of efforts to protect land from shipwreck's fuel
BLIGH ISLAND - Not far from an oily sheen on the waters of British Columbia's Nootka Sound is a site that the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation considers the centre of the world. Dorothy Hunt, who is p...
Dec 20, 2020
Dutch ban UK flights, fearing the new coronavirus variant
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Netherlands is banning flights from the U.K. for at least the rest of the year in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of coronavirus that is sweeping across southern...
Dec 20, 2020