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The COVID19 pandemic is slamming Cuba like never before, even as the country races to roll out its homegrown vaccines the only locally developed shots being widely used in Latin America.

The agency managed to identify about 25 victims, in the age group of 12-21 years.

Jeff Bezos, 57, founded Blue Origin in 2000 with the goal of one day building floating space colonies with artificial gravity where millions of people will work and live.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has picked five Republicans to sit on the new select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, signaling that Republicans will participate in the investigation that they have staunchly opposed.

Three days after a 21-year-old man was fatally shot by police officers outside of a McDonald's restaurant, a Maryland police chief provided details on Monday about the armed standoff," but did not say what prompted officers to kill the suspect.

A judge on Monday dismissed all charges against a man convicted of the 1985 slayings of a couple at a south Georgia church, exonerating him after he spent two decades behind bars, the man's attorneys said.

Taiwan's government has signed contracts to purchase five million doses of the Medigen vaccine

Mary Akrami, who is the director of the Afghan Women's Network, also said that the Taliban may be overstating their gains.

Initial vaccine skepticism in many areas has increasingly evolved into outright hostility, a message magnified by baseless conspiracy theories regularly aired on Fox and other conservative networks.

Najibullah Alikhil's daughter, Silsila Alikhil, was on her way home when she was seized for several hours.

A senior Japanese diplomat had reportedly ridiculed Moon's desire to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, describing the South Korean leader as "masturbating with himself".

The Delta variant of COVID19 is now the dominant strain worldwide, accompanied by a surge of deaths around the United States almost entirely among unvaccinated people, U.S. officials said Friday.

After his work as a taxi driver dried up because of Indonesia's new coronavirus restrictions, Ardi Novriansyah offered his driving skills to help his home city's buckling medical system.

A prosecutor for the Holy See asked a Vatican court Thursday to convict and sentence an Italian priest for the alleged sexual abuse of a former altar boy on Vatican City property.

Chilean police on Thursday detained two delegates to Chile's constitutional convention in a central square in the capital Santiago during a protest over political prisoners, their coalition said on Twitter.

Iranian police have uncovered bootleg wine hidden in a dry village well in the country's west, state television reported on Thursday.