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Thousands of New Zealanders on the east coast of the country's North Island evacuated to higher ground on Friday after a third offshore earthquake in less than eight hours triggered tsunami sirens and warnings.

Members of the North Dakota House were hearing testimony Thursday afternoon before deciding whether to expel a state lawmaker accused of sexually harassing women at the Capitol.

Tsunami warning sirens sounded on Friday and thousands of New Zealanders on the North Island's east coast evacuated to higher ground after a third earthquake.

California will begin setting aside 40% of all vaccine doses for people who live in the most vulnerable neighborhoods in an effort to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus and get the states economy open more quickly.

More than 20 million people were pushed into poverty during pandemicplagued 2020 across Latin America and the Caribbean, the U.N. economic agency for the region reported Thursday.

The Committee to Protect Journalists and three other press freedom groups called on the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Wednesday to stop harassing and targeting media outlets. The call came on Nicaraguas Journalists Day.

A federal judge in Virginia has again rejected an American diplomatic couple's efforts to toss out a lawsuit in the U.S. filed after the woman fatally injured a British teenager in a car crash and then left the country under diplomatic immunity.

The variant of the coronavirus discovered in Britain is prevalent among Italy's infected schoolchildren and is helping to fuel a robust uptick in the curve of COVID19 contagion in the country, the health minister said Tuesday.

Human remains of early New Yorkers that were discovered during construction in and around Washington Square Park were reinterred inside the park on Tuesday, New York City officials announced.

Rochelle Walensky asked the people to stay strong and continue wearing face masks and follow other protocols.

Democrats across the country celebrated New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the face of governing competence as President Donald Trump fumbled his administration's response to the exploding pandemic last year.

Kosovos prime ministerdesignate has found himself in a difficult diplomatic position ahead of taking the post following his countrys diplomatic ties with Israel.

The J&J vaccine is the third authorized in the United States, following ones from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna

A crowd gathered in New York City on Saturday to denounce an uptick in attacks on people of Asian descent in the city and across the country.

The U.S. is getting a third vaccine to prevent COVID19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two.

The report concluded that Crown Prince Mohammed approved the killing of Khashoggi, a US-based opinion contributor to The Washington Post who had written critically about the 35-year-old.