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WHO member countries approve steps to bolster health regulations to better brace for pandemics
GENEVA — The World Health Organization said member countries on Saturday approved new steps to improve global preparedness for and ...
Heroic final act of beloved TV star Johnny Wactor after fatal shooting in attempted robbery
A co-worker of Johnny Wactor said the General Hospital actor stood in front of her when he was shot and ...
What happens now that Donald Trump has been convicted in his hush money criminal case
A New York jury convicting Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records brought the former president’s weekslong ...
ABBA will get a prestigious Swedish knighthood for their pop career that started at Eurovision
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest ...
No more cute snaps of Mt Fuji. A screen is up in a Japanese town to prevent tourist crowds
TOKYO — Sorry, the screen is now up — no more snapping cute photos of Mount Fuji from a popular ...
In Saudi Arabia, an all-women psychedelic rock band jams out as its conservative society loosens up
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Leaning into the microphone in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Nora let loose a primal scream. Guitars wailed ...
Side hustle tips: Carter started a side job to make a little extra money. It turned into a $172,000 paycheck
Carter Osborne spent two months agonising over whether to leave his full-time job for his tutoring side hustle. He did ...
Eurovision explained, from ABBA to Zorra, as the song contest is shadowed by war
MALMO, Sweden — Scores of musicians, hundreds of journalists and thousands of music fans have gathered in the Swedish city ...
Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence protests after being locked out of his lab
SHANGHAI — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest ...
The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut ...
