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Eugenia Alexander is planning to build a creative green safe space for the community serving the city of East Saint Louis at the intersection of Trendley Ave. and 11th St. (Derik Holtmann/Belleville News-Democrat via AP)

Urban farmers work to bring fresh food to southwest Illinois

By Deasia Paige
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Vultures gather above a street market in Iquitos, Peru, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. In Peru, and in Latin America, the first known case of authorities concealing the fate of dozens of COVID-19 victims is coming to light, and nobody is able to explain why the victims were buried in a nearby field and not the local cemetery. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In Peru, authorities allowed secret burials of virus victims

By Franklin Briceño
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FILE - Rower Tori Murden appears aboard her 23-foot, American Pearl, in Bas-du-Fort in Guadeloupe on Dec. 3, 1999. A musical about Murden, who was the first American to row across the Atlantic Ocean solo, was supposed to make its stage debut at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts in the summer 2020. But due to the global pandemic, it is instead making its world premiere this month as a recording available on Audible. (AP Photo/John Riley, File)

The pandemic ruined one musical's debut plans. Not for long

By Mark Kennedy
19 hrs ago
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Chinese security personnel stand on duty near an art work outside the United States Embassy in Beijing on April 6, 2021. China accused the U.S. of causing humanitarian disasters through foreign military interventions in a report Friday, April 9, 2021 that was the latest broadside by Beijing amid increasingly contentious relations with the Biden administration. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China report accuses US of causing humanitarian disasters

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BEIJING (AP) — China accused the U.S.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, center, announces that Tokyo, Kyoto and Okinawa will be applied for pre-emergency status under a new prevention law during a government task force meeting at the prime minister's office Friday, April 9, 2021, in Tokyo. Japan announced Friday that it will raise the coronavirus alert level in Tokyo to allow tougher measures to curb the rapid spread of a more contagious variant ahead of the Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Japan imposes new virus measures in Tokyo ahead of Olympics

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TOKYO (AP) — Japan announced Friday that it will raise the coronavirus alert level in Tokyo to allow tougher measures to curb the rapid spread of a more contagious variant ahea

A volunteer waits outside a vaccination center which has been closed because of shortage of the COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai, India, Friday, April 9, 2021. India has a seven-day rolling average of more than 100,000 cases per day and has reported 13 million virus cases since the pandemic began, the third-highest total after the United States and Brazil. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

The Latest: Doctors in Turkey urge lockdown during Ramadan

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has posted record daily numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases for the past 10 days, including 55,941 new infections reported late Thursday.

An Iraqi nurse prepares a shot of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq blames public for new virus record, urges vaccinations

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Iraq's Health Ministry has warned of “dire consequences” ahead because citizens are not heeding coronavirus prevention measures, after the country reached a new high in daily i

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