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Isaias makes landfall in North Carolina as Category 1 hurricane

MYRTLE BEACH, United States (AFP) -- Hurricane Isaias slammed into North Carolina Monday as a category one storm, with winds…

75 years on, Japan bomb survivors make final pleas for abolition

  by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- As Japan marks 75 years since the devastating attacks…

Unspeakable horror’: the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Japan this week marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic…

Trump gives TikTok 6 weeks to sell itself to US company

by Paul HANDLEY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US President Donald Trump gave popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok six weeks…

US East Coast braces for hurricane after Florida escapes

by Logan Cyrus MYRTLE BEACH, United States (AFP) -- Tropical Storm Isaias was set to regain hurricane strength Monday before…

Russia aims to produce ‘millions’ of vaccine doses by 2021

by Maria ANTONOVA MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Russia said Monday it aims to launch mass production of a coronavirus vaccine…

PM urges France ‘not to let down guard’ to prevent new virus lockdown

LILLE, France (AFP) -- Prime Minister Jean Castex on Monday urged France "not to let down its guard" in the…

Top coronavirus advisor warns US in ‘new phase’ of pandemic; says virus “extraordinarily widespread’

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The United States has entered a "new phase" of the pandemic, White House coronavirus…

Australian city begins curfew as global virus cases top 18 million

  by Carly Waters, with AFP Bureaus Agence France Presse MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) -- Australia's second-largest city started a six-week…

China’s young jobseekers struggle despite economic recovery

by Beiyi SEOW ZHENGZHOU, China (AFP ) -- Biology student Ma Jingjing wandered the hall of a job fair in…

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