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The incoming German government wants to make COVID19 vaccinations mandatory from March 16 for people working in hospitals, nursing homes and other medical practices, according to a copy of draft legislation seen by Reuters on Sunday.

A passenger on an arriving Southwest Airlines flight taxiing at Phoenix's main airport opened a galley door, jumped out and ran to an airport fire station where he barricaded himself, authorities said Saturday.

The number of states finding the variant is growing as well, with authorities in New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Maryland reporting their first confirmed cases.

The award recognises their highly original work that introduced and developed methods for understanding the characteristic polynomial of matrices.

A shooting outside a suburban Dallas supermarket left a police officer dead and a suspect wounded on Friday, authorities said.

BRASILIA, Brazil A justice of Brazils top court ordered on Friday that President Jair Bolsonaro be investigated for comments linking COVID19 vaccines to AIDS an assertion rejected by doctors and scientists.

France has carried out an evacuation mission in Afghanistan, taking 258 Afghans as well as 11 French, some 60 Dutch nationals and an unspecified number of people linked to them out of the country, a French foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.

Erin Jackson won her fourth World Cup speedskating gold medal of the season Friday, taking the 500 meters on home ice at the Utah Olympic Oval.

The New Jersey statehouse requirement for visitors to show proof of COVID19 or a negative test is still in effect after Republican lawmakers defied it ahead of a voting session Thursday.

Jonas Poher Rasmussen was 15 when a boy his same age arrived alone in his small Danish town.

The new case, a school student from Sydney, was the first confirmed Omicron infection of a person who had not travelled overseas, a sign the variant was now in the community, authorities in New South Wales state said.

U.S. news organizations that grappled with issues of race and bias in their coverage after the killing of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 have had to confront them again amid extensive coverage of Gabby Petito’s disappearance this yea...

Gun control activist X González has a message for people: Do not underestimate the power of your voice, it can effect change.

Two NASA astronauts completed a 61/2 hour spacewalk on Thursday to replace a faulty antenna on the International Space Station, a mission NASA said carried slightly higher risk posed by orbital debris left from a Russian missile test weeks ago.

Iran has started producing enriched uranium with more efficient advanced centrifuges at its Fordow plant dug into a mountain, the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Wednesday, further eroding the 2015 Iran nuclear deal during talks with the West on saving it.

The U.S. dollar recovered from a loss on Wednesday after reports the Omicron coronavirus variant is spreading and oil prices turned down, hurting commodity currencies.