EXPLAINER: What we know about AstraZeneca blood clot reports
<p>LONDON — German officials have decided to limit the use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in people under 60 after more unusual blood clots were...
China pushes to expand virus origin search beyond its border
BEIJING — Chinese health officials pushed Wednesday to expand the search for the origins of the coronavirus beyond China, one day after the release...
Mexico’s indirect COVID-19 deaths may be over 120,000
<p>MEXICO CITY — Many of the over 120,000 excess deaths Mexico suffered so far during the pandemic may have been indirectly caused by the...
Puerto Rico vaccinates thousands in 15-hour mass event
<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Thousands of people were vaccinated against COVID-19 on Wednesday as part of a mass inoculation event in Puerto Rico’s...
UN envoy: Myanmar faces possibility of major civil war
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar warned Wednesday that the country faces the possibility of civil war “at an unprecedented scale”...
Germany drops probe of former Nazi guard deported from US
<p>BERLIN — German prosecutors said Wednesday that they have dropped an investigation of a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard after he declined to...
Italian naval officer, Russian detained on spying charges
ROME —
Italian authorities said Wednesday they have arrested an...
Amid AstraZeneca setback, Germany banks on homegrown vaccine
<p>MARBURG, Germany — As Germany ponders how to accelerate its sluggish coronavirus vaccination campaign after <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-cities-suspend-astrazeneca-vaccine-under-60-c6da4f4ed846ebebbe24505bfbf9bfce">yet another hitch involving the AstraZeneca shot</a>, a...
ICC judges to rule on Ivory Coast president’s acquittal
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — International Criminal Court judges are ruling Wednesday on an appeal by prosecutors against the acquittal of Ivory Coast's former president...
China reports COVID-19 outbreak on border with Myanmar
<p>BEIJING — At least nine people have tested positive for COVID-19 in a Chinese city on the border with Myanmar, health officials said Wednesday.</p>
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