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JOHANNESBURG – South Africa took the first step in its mass vaccination campaign on Friday by starting online registrations for the elderly to receive shots beginning next month.

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LA Phil's Dudamel to become music director of Paris Opera

LOS ANGELES – Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the Paris Opera while continuing his commitment to the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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Kremlin ponders next moves after being hit by US sanctions

MOSCOW – Hit by a barrage of new sanctions this week from the Biden administration, the Kremlin is carefully weighing its response in a tense showdown with the United States.

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Missing Polk County woman with dementia may be traveling north, deputies say

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – Deputies are asking for the public’s help in the search for a missing 82-year-old woman with dementia who last seen in the Haines City area, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

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Historic: Cocoa officials select new police chief

COCOA, Fla. – Cocoa officials are set to announce the selection of Evander Collier IV, who served as a lieutenant with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, as the riverfront city’s new police chief, News 6 partner Florida Today reported.

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Chen tops Hanyu to win men's free skate at World Team Trophy

OSAKA – Three-time world champion Nathan Chen won the free skate at the figure skating World Team Trophy on Friday to continue his dominance of two-time Olympic gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu.

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US setting up $1.7B national network to track virus variants

WASHINGTON – The U.S. is setting up a $1.7 billion national network to identify and track worrisome coronavirus mutations whose spread could trigger another pandemic wave, the Biden administration announced Friday.

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US has been wracked with several mass shootings in 2021

After a significant drop in mass shootings in the United States during a pandemic-hit 2020, this year has already seen several deadly cases.

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Families hope loved ones can be found alive in capsized boat

PORT FOURCHON, La. – Divers searching for oil industry workers on a capsized liftboat prepared to enter the overturned vessel on Friday, a rescue effort complicated by daunting technical challenges and continued bad weather.

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Orange County sheriff’s corporal retires amid investigation into racist post

ORLANDO, Fla. – A supervisor in the Orange County Sheriff’s Office retired amid an internal investigation into a Facebook post that shared a video from a page that supports white supremacist beliefs.

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Cows won’t moo-ve out of this Florida neighborhood

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Florida man had an interesting start to his day when he woke up and saw random cows in his neighborhood.

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Surge in violence rattles Haiti as poverty, fear deepens

PORT-AU-PRINCE – PORT-AU-The attack was brazen, streamed live on the internet: Men carrying big guns walked into a Holy Thursday church service, grabbed the pastor and three parishioners and led them away in full view of cameras.

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Family asks feds to reopen case on Tamir Rice police killing

CHICAGO – The family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police in 2014, asked the Justice Department on Friday to reopen the case into his death after it was closed in the waning weeks of the Trump administration.

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Belleview police search for missing, endangered 72-year-old man

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – Authorities in Marion County are searching for a missing and endangered 72-year-old man who is without his medication, according to the Belleview Police Department.

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US home construction rebounds in March after frigid February

WASHINGTON – U.S. housing construction rebounded strongly in March with home builders recovering from an unusually frigid February.

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Testimony continues in trial of 2 men accused in Nicole Montalvo’s murder

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – The trial of two men accused in the 2019 murder and dismembering of Nicole Montalvo will pick up Friday with more witness testimony.

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Orlando man ejected through windshield, killed in Orange County crash, FHP says

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – A 43-year-old Orlando man was killed early Friday when he was ejected through the windshield of his pickup truck during a crash in Orange County, the Florida Highway Patrol said,

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List of mourners attending the funeral of Prince Philip

LONDON – Here is the full list of mourners who will attend the funeral of Prince Philip on Saturday at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle:

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds news conference in Lakeland

LAKELAND, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday will hold a news conference in Lakeland.

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Philip's legacy lives in chef who traded prison for kitchen

LONDON – Jon Watts was 18 years old when he woke up in a prison cell and decided he had to change.

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Oscar-nominated Romanian film reveals health care failings

BUCHAREST – Seeing the day that her life changed forever played out on a big screen was an emotional moment for Tedy Ursuleanu.

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Coronavirus hug image named World Press Photo of the Year

THE HAGUE – A photo symbolizing “love and compassion” of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse through a transparent “hug curtain” was named the World Press Photo of the Year on Thursday.

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UNHCR appeals to Italy not to impede migrants rescue boats

MILAN – The head of the U.N. refugee agency on Friday said he has urged Italy not to unnecessarily impede NGOs that operate migrant rescue ships in the central Mediterranean, as warmer weather is expected to bring the usual seasonal uptick in the departure of smugglers’ boats from Libya.

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UK military prepares for big role in Prince Philip's funeral

LONDON – British soldiers, sailors and air force personnel were making final preparations Friday for Prince Philip's funeral, a martial but personal service that will mark the passing of a royal patriarch who was also one of the dwindling number of veterans of World War II.

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What is a COVID-19 vaccine passport, and will I need one?

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AP Interview: China to send 'positive message' on climate

BEIJING – A leading Chinese diplomat said Friday that his country, the world’s largest carbon emitter, plans to send a “positive message” at a climate change meeting called by U.S. President Joe Biden for next week.

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Florida ‘anti-riot’ bill goes to Gov. DeSantis amid racial strife

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature approved stiffer penalties against violent protesters on Thursday, handing a major legislative victory to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who began campaigning for the measure last year following a summer of turmoil across the country over the killings of Black people by police.

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Indian vaccine maker asks US to ease export curbs

NEW DELHI – The chief executive of Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest maker of vaccines and a critical supplier of the U.N.-backed COVAX facility, asked President Joe Biden on Twitter to lift the U.S. embargo on exporting raw materials needed to make the the jabs.

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Senators to Biden: Waive vaccine intellectual property rules

WASHINGTON – Ten liberal senators are urging President Joe Biden to back India and South Africa’s appeal to the World Trade Organization to temporarily relax intellectual property rules so coronavirus vaccines can be manufactured by nations that are struggling to inoculate their populations.

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3 resign from Auschwitz council after politician appointed

WARSAW – Three members of an advisory council for the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland have resigned after the government appointed a former Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, a top member of the country's right-wing ruling party, to serve on the council.

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100-meter champ Coleman to miss Olympics despite reduced ban

GENEVA – American sprinter Christian Coleman will miss the Tokyo Olympics after failing Friday in an appeal to overturn his ban for missed doping tests.

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Iran starts enriching uranium to 60%, its highest level ever

TEHRAN – Iran began enriching uranium up to 60% purity Friday, its highest level ever, after an attack targeted its Natanz nuclear site, the country's parliament speaker said.

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Ukraine, France and Germany hold security talks

PARIS – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is holding talks on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel amid growing tensions with Russia, which has deployed troops at the border with the country.

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Head of Tokyo Olympics again says games will not be canceled

TOKYO – The head of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday was again forced to assure the world that the postponed games will open in just over three months and not be canceled despite surging COVID-19 cases in Japan.

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Pakistan blocks social media access amid anti-France rallies

LAHORE – Pakistan blocked access to all social media on Friday, after days of anti-French protests across the country by radical Islamists opposed to cartoons they consider blasphemous.

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Germany's Merkel urges lawmakers to support pandemic bill

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged parliament Friday to pass a bill that would mandate a nationwide “emergency brake” when the spread of the coronavirus becomes too rapid, saying that it was needed to prevent the country's health care system from becoming overwhelmed.

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Asian shares rise as vaccine wait tempers Wall St optimism

TOKYO – Asian shares advanced Friday after China reported its economy expanded at an 18% annual pace in the first quarter of the year.

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Day workers fill trains out of Mumbai as virus dries up jobs

MUMBAI – Migrant workers are swarming rail stations in India's financial capital Mumbai to go to their home villages as virus-control measures dry up work in the hard-hit region.

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Price earns 1st regular-season save, Dodgers top Rockies 7-5

LOS ANGELES – Justin Turner and Max Muncy each hit a three-run homer, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 7-5 on Thursday night as David Price earned his first regular-season save.

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The Latest: Duterte: 'Worst' to come before vaccines arrive

MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte said it's uncertain when the Philippines can get adequate COVID-19 vaccines while warning more people will die and “the worst of times” is yet to come.

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Princely letter: Philip apologized to Nixon for 'lame' toast

WASHINGTON – Throughout his decades in public life, Prince Philip was known for putting his royal foot in his mouth with occasional off-the-cuff remarks that could be embarrassing. But his faux pas at a White House dinner with President Richard Nixon in 1969 was enough for Philip to actually lose sleep.

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Jaylen Brown scores 40, Celtics beat Lakers 121-113

LOS ANGELES – Jaylen Brown scored four of his 40 points in the final minute, and the Boston Celtics blew most of a 27-point lead in the fourth quarter before holding on for their fifth straight victory, 121-113 over the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night.

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US says Russia was given Trump campaign polling data in 2016

WASHINGTON – It was one of the more tantalizing, yet unresolved, questions of the investigation into possible connections between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign: Why was a business associate of campaign chairman Paul Manafort given internal polling data — and what did he do with it?

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Amid hesitancy, Louisiana gets creative in vaccine outreach

BATON ROUGE, La. – Brass bands playing at a 24-hour drive-thru coronavirus vaccine event. Doses delivered to commercial fishermen minutes from the docks. Pop-up immunization clinics at a Buddhist temple, homeless shelters, truck stops and casinos, with shots available at night or on weekends.

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Gaetz and DeSantis: A friendship that may become a liability

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – When he launched his campaign to become Florida’s governor in January 2018, few expected Ron DeSantis to prevail in America’s toughest political battleground.

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Shortage of intubation drugs threatens Brazil health sector

RIO DE JANEIRO – Reports are emerging of Brazilian health workers forced to intubate patients without the aid of sedatives, after weeks of warnings that hospitals and state governments risked running out of critical medicines.

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Video: Chicago boy wasn't holding gun when shot by officer

CHICAGO – Disturbing bodycam video released after public outcry over the Chicago police shooting of a 13-year-old boy shows the youth appearing to drop a handgun and begin raising his hands less than a second before an officer fires his gun and kills him.

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China ramps up vaccination drive with free eggs, other goods

TAIPEI – China's success at controlling the coronavirus outbreak has resulted in a population that has seemed almost reluctant to get vaccinated. So it is accelerating its inoculation campaign by offering incentives — free eggs, store coupons and discounts on groceries and merchandise — to those getting a shot.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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