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Beaten down by the pandemic, some laid-off or idle restaurant workers have pivoted to dishing out food with a taste of home

A new study shows that Britain’s COVID-19 vaccination program is beginning to break the link between infection and serious illness or death

As the COVID-19 pandemic killed more than a half-million Americans, it also quietly inflamed what was before it one of the country’s greatest public health crises: addiction

An attack on an Iranian cargo ship that's said to serve as a floating base for the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces off Yemen has escalated a yearslong shadow war in Mideast waters

Southern African leaders are meeting in Mozambique’s capital Maputo on Thursday to discuss ways to respond to the violence by Islamic extremist rebels in the country’s northern Cabo Delgado province where thousands of people have been killed and displaced

Prosecutors in the Netherlands say police have arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly plotting to set off what they described as a “firework bomb” at a coronavirus vaccination center

Germany’s health minister says the European Union doesn’t plan to order Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine but his country will hold talks with Russia on whether an individual order makes sense

Many educators in the U.S. say they’ve heard a demand from students for fuller Black history lessons beyond what was already offered

Australia has become the latest country to restrict use of the AstraZeneca vaccine by recommending that it not be given to people under age 50