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World·Analysis An increasing number of migrants and asylum seekers have been crossing irregularly from Belarus into Lithuania, but Lithuania says this is a “hybrid attack” and not a refugee crisis. Most are Iraqis and many are from Iraq’s Yazidi minority. Ibrahim Khalil sits in Sabah Sahdun’s barber chair in the …

Health Moderna is in talks with U.S. regulators to expand the size of an ongoing trial testing its COVID-19 vaccines in children aged between 5 and 11, the drugmaker said on Monday. Moderna is in talks with U.S. regulators to expand the size of an ongoing trial testing its COVID-19 …

World Moses worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement and was central to the 1964 "Freedom Summer," in which hundreds of students went to the U.S. South to register voters. Robert Moses speaks at an event in …

Table Tennis Syria's Hend Zaza, already the youngest competitor at the Tokyo Games, entered the record books on Saturday after becoming the youngest competitor in Olympic table tennis history. Syria's Hend Zaza, 12, became the youngest table tennis player in Olympic history on Saturday.(Steph Chambers/Getty Images) With every step inside …

World Protesters took to the streets in several Brazilian cities on Saturday to demand the impeachment of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, whose popularity has fallen in recent weeks amid corruption scandals against the backdrop of the pandemic. A demonstrator holds a placard reading 'Impeachment' on an image depicting Brazilian President …

World Firefighters on Friday declared the end of their search for bodies at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building, concluding a month of painstaking work removing layers of dangerous debris that were once piled several storeys. Workers are seen at the site of the collapsed Champlain Towers South …

World Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rain hit parts of western India, killing more than 100 people, officials and news reports said Friday. More than 1,000 people trapped by floodwaters were rescued. Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rain hit parts of western India, killing more than …

World Church bells rang out across Norway on Thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of the country's worst peacetime mass killing as leaders called for renewed efforts to fight the extremism behind the attack that left 77 people dead. A flower ceremony is seen during a memorial service in Utoya, …

World·THE LATEST The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not revised its masking guidance even as the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps the United States, driving up infections, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday. A sign asking people to wear a face mask is seen …

World China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday. Above, security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Wuhan, …