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    SUV carrying 27 people collides with semitruck in California, killing 15

  • In this photo provided by the Presidential Communications Operations Office-Office of the Global Media Public Affairs, a Chinese military plane carrying the first batch of Sinovac vaccine from China arrives at the Villamor Air Base in Manila, Philippines on Sunday Feb. 28, 2021. The Philippines is due to receive its first batch of COVID-19 vaccine Sunday, among the last in Southeast Asia to secure the critical doses despite having the second-highest number of coronavirus infections and deaths in the hard-hit region. (PCOO-OGMPA via AP)

    China ships millions of COVID-19 vaccines to poor nations abroad; denies 'vaccine diplomacy'

  • Some of the students who were abducted by gunmen from the Government Girls Secondary School, in Jangebe, last week wait for a medical checkup after their release meeting with the state Governor Bello Matawalle, in Gusau, northern Nigeria, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls who were abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released Tuesday.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

    Hundreds of schoolgirls freed in northern Nigeria after armed kidnapping

  • New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at a COVID-19 vaccination site in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

    Critics: Cuomo apology 'tone-deaf,' ignores power imbalance

  • Protesters run away from tear gas launched by security forces during an anti-coup protest in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Demonstrators in Myanmar took to the streets again on Tuesday to protest last month’s seizure of power by the military, as foreign ministers from Southeast Asian countries prepared to meet to discuss the political crisis. (AP Photo)

    Myanmar police fire tear gas, rubber bullets at protesters

  • FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. People charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol left behind a trove of videos and messages that have helped federal authorities build cases. In nearly half of the more than 200 federal cases stemming from the attack, authorities have cited evidence that an insurrectionist appeared to have been inspired by conspiracy theories or extremist ideologies, according to an Associated Press review of court records. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

    FBI director expected to testify about extremism, Capitol Hill siege

  • A man, left, who appears to be Michael Taylor, arrives at Narita Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Two Americans suspected of helping former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn skip bail and escape to Lebanon in December 2019 have been extradited to Japan. Taylor and his son Peter had been held in a suburban Boston jail since May. They were handed over to Japanese custody on Monday and were due to arrive in Tokyo on Tuesday. (Kyodo News via AP)

    U.S. men accused of helping Ghosn flee arrive in Japan

  • In this Feb. 1, 2015, file photo, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. The disappearance of Khashoggi, during a visit to his country‚Äôs consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018, raises a dark question for anyone who dares criticize governments or speak out against those in power: Will the world have their back? (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

    Rights group files complaint in Germany in Khashoggi killing

  • Polish activists Elzbieta Podlesna, right, is surround by supporters as she leaves the court after being acquitted of desecration by a court in Plock, Poland, Tuesday March 2, 2021. A Polish court has acquitted three activists who had been accused of desecration for adding the LGBT rainbow to images of a revered Roman Catholic icon. In posters that they put up in protest in their city of Plock, the activists used the rainbow in place of halos on a revered image of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

    Polish court acquits activists who put LGBT rainbow on icon

  • In this Feb. 22, 2021 photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, pauses to listen to a reporter's question during a news conference at a COVID-19 vaccination site in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool, file)

    Cuomo accuser blasts attempted apology, 'predatory behaviour'

  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, attends a virtual meeting with President Joe Biden, right, and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, March 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

    Biden tries to reset relationship with Mexican president

  • Protesters set up barricade during an anti-coup protest march in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 1, 2021. Defiant crowds returned to the streets of the country's biggest city on Monday, determined to continue their protests against the military's seizure of power a month ago, despite security forces having killed at least 18 people around the country just a day earlier. (AP Photo)

    Defying deadly crackdown, crowds again protest Myanmar coup

  • Sheriffs department personnel work Monday March 1, 2021 in Pine Bluff, Ark. directing traffic around the Watson Chapel Junior High School after a shooting at the school. (Staton Breidenthal/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

    Boy, 15, injured in Arkansas school shooting; classmate held

  • Assistant Principal Janette Van Gelderen, left, welcomes students at Newhall Elementary School Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Santa Clarita, Calif. Elementary school students returned to school this week in the Newhall School District. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

    Deal reached to get California children back in classrooms

  • A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on Thursday, January 7, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

    Countries urge drug companies to share vaccine know-how

  • A view of St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, Monday, March 1, 2021. Buckingham Palace says Prince Philip has been transferred to another London hospital to undergo testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition as he continues treatment for an unspecified infection. The palace says Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was transferred from King Edward VII's Hospital to St Bartholomew's Hospital. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

    Prince Philip moved to specialized London heart hospital