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WHO declares end of Indonesia's polio outbreak following yearslong vaccination campaign

New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- The World Health Organization has declared Indonesia's polio outbreak officially over, following nearly three years of intensive response efforts, officials said Friday. Indones... Read More


South African women stage lie-down protest against gender-based violence ahead of G20 summit

New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- Hundreds of women wearing black gathered in a Johannesburg park on Friday, one day before the start of the Group of 20 summit, to stage a 15-minute lie-down protest symbolizing t... Read More


OpenAI and Taiwan's Foxconn to partner in AI hardware design and manufacturing in the US

New Delhi, Nov. 21 -- OpenAI and Taiwan electronics giant Foxconn have agreed to a partnership to design and manufacture key equipment for artificial intelligence data centers in the U.S. as part of a... Read More


Fire disrupts UN climate talks just as negotiators reach critical final days

New Delhi, Nov. 21 -- Fire disrupted United Nations climate talks in Brazil on Thursday, forcing evacuations of several buildings and delaying already sluggish negotiations by most of a day with no ma... Read More


Coroner says Australian extremists who killed police officers had shared delusional disorder

New Delhi, Nov. 21 -- Three Christian extremists shared a delusional disorder when they opened fire on police officers they perceived as "demons intent on killing them" on a rural Australian property ... Read More


Brazilian president appoints ally Jorge Messias to country's Supreme Court

New Delhi, Nov. 21 -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday appointed Jorge Messias to the country's Supreme Court. Messias, currently Brazil's Solicitor General, is Lula's third ... Read More


Volcano eruption forces the rescue of more than 170 climbers on Indonesia's Mount Semeru

New Delhi, Nov. 21 -- Indonesian authorities said Thursday they helped more than 170 climbers who were caught a day earlier by Mount Semeru's sudden eruption to return to safety as the seismic activit... Read More


Network that trafficked stolen antiquities across Europe dismantled with 35 arrests

New Delhi, Nov. 21 -- Law enforcement agencies working across several countries dismantled a sophisticated criminal network trafficking stolen cultural goods across Europe, Bulgarian authorities said ... Read More


Meta alerts young Australians to download their data before a social media ban

New Delhi, Nov. 21 -- Technology giant Meta on Thursday began sending thousands of young Australians a two-week warning to downland their digital histories and delete their accounts from Facebook, Ins... Read More


Mexican woman gets 20 years for robbery with violence in surfers' killings

New Delhi, Nov. 21 -- A Mexican woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to robbery with violence in the case of the 2024 killings of an American and two Australian surfers, ... Read More