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A woman who fainted and hit her head on a rock after stopping to rest in Utah's Arches National Park woke up to hear a familiar voice and wondered if she might be watching television.

Emmanuel Macron hopes to encourage all French to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and thereby defeat the virus and its fast-spreading Delta variant.

The deputy governor of Jawzjan province told AFP he was with government forces who had abandoned Sheberghan city and retreated to the airport on its outskirts, where they were preparing to defend themselves.

Rising support has drawn Germany's Social Democrats level with the Greens and suggests their popular chancellor candidate could lead a threeway coalition government after a Sept. 26 federal election, an opinion poll showed on Sunday.

Dennis Dee Tee Thomas, a founding member of the longrunning soulfunk band Kool & the Gang known for such hits as Celebration and Get Down On It, has died. He was 70.

More than 8 million South Africans have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine or at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine

Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment Friday of Swedish diplomat Hans Grundberg as his special envoy for conflicttorn Yemen.

The delay in providing vaccines to India from the United States is not because of Washington, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters here.

Two powerful California Republicans urged members of the state GOP Friday to withhold an endorsement in the upcoming recall election that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office.

Malaysia announced in mid-July that it would stop using made-in-China vaccine in its drive amid concerns about its efficacy.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and fellow GOP politicians accused President Joe Biden on Thursday of not doing more to help Cubans on the island get access to the internet.

A New Yorkbased real estate investment firm will emerge as the largest landholder on the Las Vegas Strip under a $17.2 billion property deal between landholding affiliates of casino giants Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International.

Two rockets launched from Lebanon on Wednesday struck Israel, which responded with artillery fire amid heightened regional tensions over an alleged Iranian attack on an oil tanker in the Gulf last week.

The vaccine is currently being administered via an emergency use authorization that was granted in December. 

Families abandoned their homes in droves, air strikes rained down on neighbourhoods and bodies filled the streets as the Taliban took their fight to Afghanistan's cities over the weekend, starting a new bloody chapter in the country's long war.

R&B star R. Kelly gained weight and lost money while he awaits a sextrafficking trial that starts in earnest next week, his lawyers said Tuesday at a court hearing.