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A South African woman is briefed before taking a COVID-19 test at the Ndlovu clinic in Groblersdal , 200 kms north-east of Johannesburg Thursday Feb. 11, 2021. African countries without the coronavirus variant dominant in South Africa should go ahead and use the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, while the World Health Organization suggested the vaccine even for countries with the variant circulating widely.(Photo file).
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African nations still encouraged to use AstraZeneca vaccine

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NAIROBI— African countries without the coronavirus variant dominant in South Africa should go ahead and use the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine,

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Medecins Sans Frontieres staff transport a patient at a mobile clinic in the town of Hawzen, south of the city of Adigrat, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Rare witness accounts are illuminating the shadowy conflict in Tigray, which is largely cut off from the outside world as fighting enters a fourth month in a region of 6 million people(Photo File)
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‘We’ll be left without families’: Fear in Ethiopia’s Tigray

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — As soldiers from Eritrea looted the border town of Rama in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, one home

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cting Sergeant at Arms Timothy Blodgett leads impeachment managers through Statuary Hall to the Senate for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Washington.( Photo file)
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Senate agrees to hear Trump case, rejecting GOP arguments

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WASHINGTON  — Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial opened Tuesday with graphic video showing the former president whipping up a

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In this July 30, 2020 file photo, residents displaced from a surge of violent attacks squat on blankets and in hastily made tents in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan. The U.N. says ethnic fighting in Jan. 2021 in Darfur spanned two provinces, killing at least 250 people and displacing 120,000, mostly women and children. The Darfur bloodletting — just two weeks after the end of the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force’s decade-long mandate in the region — raised questions about the government's ability to protect civilians there(Photo file)
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Ethnic clashes in Darfur could reignite Sudan’s old conflict

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CAIRO — Sayid Ismael Baraka, a Sudanese-American visiting from Atlanta, was playing with his three children, and his wife was

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In this Dec. 7, 2020, file photo, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee palace, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020 in Paris. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has given his support to a transitional government that would lead neighboring Libya through elections late this year.
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Egypt’s president says he supports interim Libya government

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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has given his support to a transitional government that would lead neighboring

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In this Jan. 25, 2021 photo, Houthi supporters chant slogans as they attend a demonstration against the United States over its decision to designate the Houthis a foreign terrorist organization in Sanaa, Yemen. President Joe Biden is distancing himself from Saudi Arabia's rulers over their war in Yemen and rights abuses. That includes Biden announcing Feb. 4, 2021, he would make good on a campaign pledge to cut U.S. support for a five-year Saudi-led military campaign in neighboring Yemen. Photo file
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Pariah with benefits: US aiding Saudi defense despite chill

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As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden laid out a tougher line on Saudi Arabia than any U.S. president in decades.

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This July 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a vial of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. On Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, Johnson & Johnson has asked U.S. regulators to clear the world’s first single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, an easier-to-use option that could boost scarce supplies. (Johnson & Johnson via AP)
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J&J asks US regulators to OK its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine

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Johnson & Johnson asked U.S. regulators Thursday to clear the world’s first single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, an easier-to-use option that could

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Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, left, and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi attend a video conference with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Defense Minister Ben Wallace on screen, not seen, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, Feb. 3 2021. Both parties held their 4th Japan-UK Foreign and Defense Ministerial Meeting '2+2' to strengthen their cooperation. photo file
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Japan expresses concern to UK over new Chinese maritime law

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TOKYO  — Japan’s foreign minister and defense minister expressed strong concern to their British counterparts on Wednesday over a new

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In this Dec. 13, 2020, file photo, refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region arrive from Village 8, the transit center near the Lugdi border crossing, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan. Huge unknowns persist in the deadly conflict, but details of the involvement of neighboring Eritrea, one of the world's most secretive countries, are emerging through witness accounts by survivors and others.Photo file
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US urges Ethiopia’s PM to allow ‘immediate’ help to Tigray

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NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a call with Ethiopia’s prime minister on Thursday expressed “grave

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