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India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive hits bump due to app glitch
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In wheelchair, paraplegic Lai Chi-wai climbs up skyscraper in Hong Kong
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Guatemala cracks down on migrant caravan bound for United States
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U.S. ‘deeply disappointed’ Mexico closed probe of ex-defense minister
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U.S. state capitals, Washington on alert for possible pro-Trump armed protests
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Reeling again from COVID-19, Amazonas gets respirators, oxygen from Brazil Air Force and Venezuela
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