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The European Medicines Agency has recommended clearing Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 17, the first time the shot has been authorized for people under 18.

Prosecutors in El Salvador have issued an arrest warrant for former president Salvador Sánchez Cerén on charges of embezzlement and money laundering.

A judge in Northern Ireland says there is plausible evidence that authorities could have prevented the worst single atrocity of the Troubles.

Australia has garnered enough international support to defer for two years an attempt by the United Nations’ cultural organization to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status because of damage caused by climate change.

The top international official in Bosnia has outlawed denial of genocide in the Balkan country.

Thousands of Eritrean refugees are increasingly caught in the middle of the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

Thailand’s already locked down capital shut parks and the few remaining public places available to residents Friday, as the country registered a new high of coronavirus infections.

America’s No. 2 diplomat has expressed sympathy for North Koreans facing hardships and food shortages linked to the coronavirus pandemic and renewed calls for the North to return to talks over its nuclear program.

The Tokyo Games have arrived at last, after a yearlong delay.

Canada has one of the world's highest coronavirus vaccination rates, with 70% of adults getting at least one dose.

The spokesman for the Afghan Taliban says the insurgents don't want to monopolize power.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a rare visit to Tibet as authorities tighten controls over the Himalayan region’s traditional Buddhist culture, accompanied by an accelerated drive for economic development.

London’s mayor has sent a message of support to Hong Kong residents fleeing China’s crackdown on democracy to seek new lives in the United Kingdom.

The assassination of Haiti's president this month has exposed an industry of retired Colombian soldiers who feed private security enterprises around the world.

Ecuador’s president has declared a state of emergency in the country’s prisons following fighting between rival gangs that killed 22 inmates and injured dozens.

Venice and its lagoon environment have avoided placement on UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites in danger following Italy’s ban on massive cruise ships traveling through the city's historic center.

Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz is stepping up its move into electric cars.

Italian firefighters say a public bus on the vacation island of Capri crashed through a guardrail and landed on a beach resort area.

Leading rights organizations and grassroots groups are taking France’s first class action law suit targeting the nation’s powerful police machine to the highest administrative authority to fix what they contend is a culture of systemic discrimination in identity checks.

Thousands of wildfires engulf broad expanses of Russia each year, destroying forests and shrouding territories in acrid smoke.

Church bells pealed across Norway for the 10th anniversary of the country’s worst peacetime slaughter, as leaders urged renewed efforts to fight the extremism behind the attack that left 77 people dead.

The simple act of taking a knee felt like something more monumental when it happened on Olympic soccer pitches in Japan on the opening night of action.

Images of bodies burning in open-air pyres during the peak of the pandemic in India horrified the world in May, but in the last two weeks three Southeast Asian nations have surpassed India’s peak per capita death rate as a new coronavirus wave tightens its grip on the region.

Hong Kong police have arrested five trade union members over children’s books they described as seditious and a court has denied bail for four editors and journalists held on charges of endangering national security.