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Local officials in Georgia are scrambling to increase vaccination rates even as more schools continue telling students and employees to wear masks in the face of rising COVID-19 infection rates

Canada’s chief public health officer says the country could face a fourth wave of COVID-19, driven by the delta variant, by the end of summer if restrictions are eased too quickly and before enough people have been vaccinated

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says vaccinations and masks are both needed to slow a skyrocketing rate of new COVID-19 infections that is stressing health care facilities in Louisiana but he stopped short of ordering a statewide mask mandate

Iraq's military says a terrorist attack on a funeral procession has claimed many victims in the country's northern province of Salahaddin

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis barred school districts Friday from forcing students to wear masks when classes resume next month even as the state’s coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to skyrocket toward levels not seen since before vaccines became widely available

Tunisian authorities jailed an opposition lawmaker and charged four members of the powerful Islamist movement Ennahdha, according to local media

Two staffers in Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office have tested positive for the coronavirus

The firm managing an oil tanker attacked off Oman's coast says two of its crew were killed in the assault

Roberto Calasso, an Italian literary figure and the driving force behind an esteemed Milan-based publishing house, has died at 80

Turkish fire crews are continuing to fight blazes in southern Turkey that burned down homes and forced evacuations