By Steven Erlanger BRUSSELS — The European Parliament has voted by a large margin to give the European Union’s final approval to a Brexit deal already beset by difficulties, complaints and a court challenge. The tally, released…
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By Jeffrey Gettleman, Shalini Venugopal and Apoorva Mandavilli NEW DELHI — At Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, a huge facility in the middle of India’s capital, 37 fully vaccinated doctors came down with COVID-19 earlier this month. The…
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By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO - India and its allies, Bhutan and the Maldives, were conspicuous in their absence in a video conference of the Foreign Ministers of South Asian countries and China on the containment of the raging COVID-19…
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COLOMBO – Sri Lanka on Wednesday (28) recorded 1,451 new COVID-19 cases, the highest confirmations in a single day, as efforts were made to expand hospital and intensive care facilities in the country. Six new deaths were also reported on…
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Albert Einstein (March 1879 – April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important…
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During the early stages of the Iraq War, United States Army and Central Intelligence Agency personnel committed a series of human rights violations against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical and sexual abuse,…
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By Daniella Cheslow JERUSALEM - Human Rights Watch said Tuesday (27) Israel is committing the crime of "apartheid" by seeking to maintain Jewish "domination" over Palestinians and its own Arab population, an allegation fiercely denounced…
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By Jefrey Gettleman NEW DELHI — Crematories are so full of bodies, it’s as if a war just happened. Fires burn around the clock. Many places are holding mass cremations, dozens at a time, and at night, in certain areas of New Delhi, the sky…
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COLOMBO – Sri Lanka on Tuesday (27) announced schools across the country will be closed until April 30, as COVID-19 numbers topped the 1000 mark for the first time, with 1096 new cases recorded during the course of the day. Tuesday also saw…
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By Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, under intense pressure to do more to address the surging pandemic abroad, including a humanitarian crisis in India, intends to make up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine…
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