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Israel finds COVID-19 vaccine booster significantly lowers infection risk
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A third dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has significantly improved protection from infection and serious illness among people aged 60 and older in Israel compared with those wh...
Syndicated Content Aug 22, 2021
U.S.-led coalition aircraft shoots down drone over Syria
By Linda So WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fighter jet with the U.S.-led coalition shot down a drone in eastern Syria on Saturday after the unmanned aircraft was deemed a threat, the U.S. military said. "Co...
Syndicated Content Aug 22, 2021
Golf-Nordqvist stays calm in thrilling finale to win women’s Open
(Reuters) - Sweden's Anna Nordqvist captured the women's British Open title with a one-shot win at Carnoustie on Sunday for her third major triumph after holding her nerve to beat Denmark's Nanna Mads...
Syndicated Content Aug 22, 2021
Rising prices, shuttered banks add to misery for Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) - A week after the Taliban's lightning seizure of Kabul, growing numbers of people in the Afghan capital are facing a daily struggle to get by with their jobs gone, banks still shutter...
Syndicated Content Aug 22, 2021
In Spain, Afghan basketball star fears for the country she has left
By Elena Rodriguez and Marco Trujillo BILBAO, Spain (Reuters) - As she started a new life in Spain after escaping the chaos of Kabul, Nilofar Bayat said on Sunday she could not live under the Taliban,...
Syndicated Content Aug 22, 2021
Climate change activists target City of London’s Guildhall
LONDON (Reuters) - Climate change activists climbed the outside of the headquarters of the City of London's government on Sunday as they began two weeks of protests focused on the capital's financial ...
Syndicated Content Aug 22, 2021
Don Everly of chart-topping Everly Brothers duo dies aged 84
(Reuters) - Don Everly, whose close-harmony singing with his brother, Phil, generated dreamy, chart-topping hits about teen romance in the late 1950s and early '60s and influenced groups from The Beat...
Syndicated Content Aug 22, 2021
Lebanon’s Hezbollah says Iranian fuel vessels heading to Lebanon
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Iranian-backed Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, said on Sunday that vessels carrying Iranian fuel will be heading to Lebanon soon followed by others to ease fuel sho...
Syndicated Content Aug 22, 2021
Afghan refugee gives birth on U.S. evacuation plane
By Linda So WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Afghan woman gave birth on board a U.S. evacuation plane on Saturday, moments after landing at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, the U.S. Air Force said. The woman de...
Syndicated Content Aug 22, 2021

UPDATE: Peoria woman found dead ID’d; person of interest arrested
UPDATE – 2:30 p.m. 8/23/21 Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the woman found dead as 37-year-old Ashley Tankersley, of South Madison Park, Peoria. The autopsy demonstrated she s...
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