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A group of anonymous alumni has gifted $550 million to Western Michigan University.

The goal behind the move is to vaccinate more people.

The Pfizer vaccine was approved May 10 for children aged 12-15.

The region has struggled with decades-long communal clashes over resources but more recently some groups have become more violent, looting, killing and kidnapping for ransom.

In his letter Schumer said India is now the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Authorities suspect the crew of MV X-Press Pearl knew about the acid leak from May 11. Police said three officers from the ship, two Russians and an Indian, had been questioned and their passports impounded.

The bill, overwhelmingly approved by the Federation Council, would make it impossible to run in parliamentary elections for leaders, sponsors and rank-and-file members of "extremist" groups.

The area in eastern DRC's North Kivu province has been prey since 2014 to attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces.

The 22-page paper to be published in the journal Quarterly Review of Biophysics Discovery, pieced together how Chinese scientists built the tools to create the virus.

The Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, is the third and largest space station launched by China’s increasingly ambitious space program. Its core module was launched into orbit April 29.

A large number of students were abducted Sunday and one person was killed at a school in Nigerias north central Niger State, a police spokesman said.

Rangers who keep an eye on North America's highest mountain peak say impatient and inexperienced climbers are taking more risks and endangering themselves and other climbers after a year off because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

One man died and another man suffered severe burns when their singleengine aircraft crashed Saturday morning near the Powder Mountain area near Eden in northern Utah, authorities said.

An Italian judge ruled late on Saturday that three men detained over a cable car crash that killed 14 people in northern Italy could leave prison, with one being placed under house arrest, Italian media reported.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, the Sun and Mail on Sunday newspapers reported.

The White House says it believes U.S. government agencies largely fended off the latest cyberespionage onslaught blamed on Russia intelligence operatives, saying the spearphishing campaign should not further damage relations with Moscow ahead of next mont...