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Pope prays for pandemic's end and for a 'horizon of hope'

Sunday, 2 May 2021, 07:13 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Pope Francis in a special prayer service on Saturday in St. Peter's Basilica invoked the end of the pandemic and a return of what he called “a horizon of hope," including a scenario in which...

Charity, military vessels take 800-plus migrants to Italy

Saturday, 1 May 2021, 17:07 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

A charity group’s ship sailed toward a Sicilian port Saturday with 236 migrants who were rescued in the Mediterranean from human traffickers' boats, while Italian coast guard and border police...

May Day protesters demand more job protections amid pandemic

Saturday, 1 May 2021, 17:03 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Workers and union leaders dusted off bullhorns and flags that had stayed furled during coronavirus lockdowns for slimmed down but still boisterous — and at times violent — May Day marches...

Russia blacklists 8 EU officials in retaliatory action

Saturday, 1 May 2021, 09:10 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Russia on Friday blacklisted eight officials from the European Union in retaliation for EU sanctions over the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Russian list includes...

UK allows dancing without distancing at nightclub test event

Saturday, 1 May 2021, 07:36 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Several thousand music fans on Friday became the first people in Britain in more than a year to legally dance, drink and listen to music in a nightclub, as part of a test to see whether social...

Pfizer, BioNTech seek EU's OK to use COVID vaccine on kids

Saturday, 1 May 2021, 07:35 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech have submitted a request to the European drug regulator for the approval of their coronavirus vaccine to be extended to include children 12 to 15 years old, in a move that...

EU Parliament: COVID-19 pass should guarantee free movement

Friday, 30 April 2021, 07:13 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

European lawmakers said Thursday that COVID-19 certificates aimed at facilitating travel across the European Union should be enough to move freely this summer, a position likely to clash with member...

Israeli rescue service: 44 killed in stampede at festival

Friday, 30 April 2021, 07:08 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed at least 44 people and injured some 150 others early Friday, medical officials said,...

India's COVID-19 human crisis spirals with record new cases

Friday, 30 April 2021, 07:06 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

India’s coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open up its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis created by an acute shortage of beds,...

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