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Only about 15 percent of the world’s population is fully vaccinated, with the highest numbers found in the world’s richest countries. COVAX, a multibillion dollar alliance, has delivered vaccines to 138 countries, but experts say the global effort to fight Covid needs more speed and resources in order to beat the pandemic.

Church founder Brian Houston suggested the charges are tied to allegations that his preacher father, Frank Houston, had abused a boy in the 1970s.

"The United States will not waver in our support of people in Hong Kong."

The Taliban have been on the offensive in recent months, as U.S. and NATO forces complete their pullout from the war-torn country.

Indigenous groups welcomed the payments, but cautioned more work needs to be done.

The girl belonged to one of Hinduism’s most oppressed castes and was found dead near a Delhi crematorium Sunday night.

Two villages were evacuated in the Peloponnese region on Wednesday as a blaze raged near the archaeological site of the ancient Olympics.

The gun companies helped flout Mexico's strict gun laws by marketing to the country’s criminal underworld, "facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels.”

The groom was among several injured in western Bangladesh.

Protesters are demanding justice and accountability one year after the deadly Beirut port explosion. Security forces fired tear gas, and at least six people were injured during the demonstrations.

In 1945, desperate victims sought refuge in Shukkeien Garden, about a mile from where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Today, the daughter of two survivors sends its small trees around the world as a symbol of hope.