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Europe is going back to school despite recent virus surge
A mother and her three children scanned the school supplies in a Paris supermarket, plucking out multicolored fountain pens, crisp notebooks – ...Hurricane Laura strengthens as it approaches Texas, Louisiana
Hurricane Laura strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, prompting warnings of “unsurvivable” storm surge ...Russia readies for approval of second COVID-19 vaccine: official
Russia is preparing to approve a second vaccine against COVID-19 in late September or early October, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova ...Watchmakers meet in Geneva to try to nurture recovery
Luxury watchmakers Bulgari and Breitling and a handful of Swiss brands are gathering in Geneva this week for a scaled-down industry exhibition, ...Two shot dead in protest-hit US city of Kenosha
Two people were shot dead on Tuesday night in the US city of Kenosha as groups clashed during protests over the police ...Africa declared free from wild polio
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday declared that Africa was free of the virus that causes polio, a landmark in a ...Hong Kong to ease some coronavirus measures starting on Friday
Hong Kong will ease some coronavirus measures from Aug. 28, allowing venues like cinemas and beauty parlours to reopen and restaurants to ...Republican convention touts Trump, stokes fears if he loses
US Republicans launched their national convention Monday with a full-throated endorsement of President Donald Trump’s record and laid out a bleak vision ...Berlin hospital says Navalny tests ‘indicate poisoning’
The Berlin hospital treating leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Monday that test results indicated he had been poisoned, although Russian doctors ...Moderna, EU conclude advanced talks to supply COVID-19 vaccine candidate
Moderna Inc <MRNA.O> said on Monday it has concluded advanced talks with the European Union to supply 80 million doses of its ...