Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced humiliating racial harassment while being a ballet dancer in Berlin.
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It aims to inoculate some 300m people this year in one of the world’s largest vaccination campaigns.
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The US president pressures Brad Raffensperger in an audio recording released by the Washington Post.
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The BBC’s Tom Bateman spent 2020 following the lives of Israelis affected by the pandemic.
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The 87-year-old reporter has been in a Los Angeles hospital for over a week, US media report.
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Ted Cruz and 10 others say they want a commission to investigate unsubstantiated fraud allegations.
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Five people have been arrested and more than 1,000 fines issued after an illegal New Year’s rave in the French countryside ended on Saturday, local authorities said.
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With more than 1m people inoculated, Israel has by far the highest vaccination rate in the world.
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The event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, started on Thursday and is still going on.
Read More »US and Iran ratchet up military activity as concerns increase ahead of Soleimani killing anniversary
The US and Iran charged each other with ratcheting up tensions in the Persian Gulf as concerns about potential conflict build days before Iran marks one year since the US assassinated its most powerful military figure and less than three weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
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