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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, pictured in February 2011, has died, his family announced on Wednesday. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Covishield is the brand name used for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in India's Serum Institute, administered to millions of people, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. It's not on the list of approved vaccines for the European Union — although the AstraZeneca version made in the United Kingdom and at European sites is. Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Moises Soffer, a volunteer member of Cadena International's search-and-rescue team working at the site of the condo building collapse, holds a trained search dog named Oreo in Surfside, Fla., on Sunday. Gianrigo Marletta/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Moderna says recently completed studies have found its vaccine to have a neutralizing effect against all COVID-19 variants tested, including the delta variant. Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks Tuesday during a Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP hide caption
Hong Kong police show their new goose step marching style on National Security Education Day at a police school in Hong Kong on April 15. Vincent Yu/AP hide caption
China's Tough Hong Kong Law Turns 1 Year Old — And It's Already Grown Teeth
A display at an Olympia Federal Savings branch shows a temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday in the early evening in Olympia, Wash. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption
In this April 7, 2002 photo, Marla Ruzicka leads a demonstration calling for U.S. compensation to victims of the recent military campaign in Afghanistan, outside of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. SUZANNE PLUNKETT/ASSOCIATED PRESS hide caption
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Uncertainty Has Made It Hard For Countries Getting COVAX Vaccine Doses To Prepare
This Dec. 30, 2019 image from security camera video shows Michael L. Taylor, center, and George-Antoine Zayek at passport control at Istanbul Airport in Turkey. Taylor and his son Peter, are charged in Japan with helping Nissan's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, jump bail and escape Japan for Lebanon. AP hide caption
Former South African President Jacob Zuma, shown here in 2019, has been found guilty of contempt of court. Michele SpatariI/AP hide caption
A woman walks past Ethiopian government soldiers in May by the side of a road north of Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. Ethiopia's government said in a statement carried by state media Monday that it has "positively accepted" a call for an immediate, unilateral cease-fire in its Tigray region after nearly eight months of deadly conflict. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption
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A woman walks past Ethiopian government soldiers by the side of a road north of Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia in May. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption