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For 15 years, the AP’s top-floor office and roof terrace were a prime location for covering Israel’s conflicts with Gaza’s Hamas rulers, including wars in 2009 and 2014.

Arab citizens of Israel have held mass national protests over Israel's policing of a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem and plans to evict dozens of Palestinian families.

As bad as the reported numbers are, the actual toll is likely much worse. India's relentless virus surge is leading to shortages of hospital beds, medical oxygen and drugs.

Activists and humanitarian institutions cheered after the U.S. reversed course Wednesday and called for a waiver of intellectual property protections on the vaccine.

Scientists, funeral directors and survivors say the real numbers of infections and deaths in India may be many multiples more than the reported figures.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden's administration made the determination on the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As a powerful second COVID surge ravages their home country, those in the Philadelphia region with family in India cannot simply stand by and watch.

The EU president expects all 27 EU member states will accept visitors who've received COVID-19 vaccines, but the CDC is still warning against travel to much of Europe.

Most of those killed suffered severe burns, he said. Others were overcome by smoke, unwilling to leave behind relatives hooked up to ventilators.

This stark access gap is prompting increased calls across the world for the U.S. to start shipping vaccine supplies to poorer countries.

While previous presidents have offered somber reflections of the dark moment in history via remembrance day proclamations, they have avoided using the term genocide.

Just a week ago, only 33 countries were on the U.S. Do Not Travel list. New additions include Canada, Mexico, Germany, the U.K., and dozens of other countries.

In the U.S., more than 1 out of 5 residents is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. But elsewhere in the world, vaccination rates are much lower.

The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal.

Coronavirus restrictions mean that instead of the 800 mourners included in the plans for his funeral, there will be only 30 inside the castle's St. George’s Chapel.