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Shyrel Ritter, a certified nursing assistant at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, receives her COVID-19 booster shot at her workplace in New York.

FDA OKs mixing COVID vaccines, backs Moderna, J&J boosters ­-- but who can get them still TBD

U.S. regulators on Wednesday signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine and said anyone eligible for an extra dose can get a brand different from the one they received initially. But before more people roll up their sleeves, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will consult an expert panel later this week before finalizing official recommendations for who should get boosters and when.
People protest carrying a banner with a message that reads in Creole: "No to kidnappings, no to violence against women ! Long live Christian Aid Ministries," demanding the release of kidnapped missionaries, in Titanyen, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children was kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Oct. 16. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Efforts drag on to free 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti

Efforts to win the return of 17 members of a U.S.-based missionary group and a local driver stretched into a fourth day Wednesday, with a violent gang demanding $1 million ransom per person
An employee looks through an office window riddled with bullet holes after the deadly clashes that erupted last Thursday along a former 1975-90 civil war front-line between Muslim Shiite and Christian areas, in Ain el-Rumaneh neighborhood, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. The shootout on the streets of Beirut between rival Christian and Muslim groups has revived memories of the country's 1975-90 civil war and fired up sectarian passions in a country that never dealt with the causes of its violent past. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Beirut clash fires up sectarian anger in echo of civil war

The shootout on the streets of Beirut between rival Christian and Muslim groups last week revived memories of the country's 1975-90 civil war
People wear face masks Tuesday as they sit on a bus, in London. Many scientists are pressing the British government to reimpose social restrictions and speed up booster vaccinations as coronavirus infection rates, already Europe’s highest, rise once more. The U.K. recorded 49,156 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, Oct. 18, the largest number since mid-July. New infections averaged 43,000 a day over the past week, a 15% increase on the week before.

WHO: Europe the only region with rise in COVID-19 last week

The World Health Organization said there was a 7% rise in new coronavirus cases across Europe last week, the only region in the world where cases increased.
A man walks past a social distancing sign Tuesday in the area of Covent Garden, in London. Many scientists are pressing the British government to reimpose social restrictions and speed up booster vaccinations as coronavirus infection rates, already Europe’s highest, rise once more. The U.K. recorded 49,156 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, Oct. 18, the largest number since mid-July. New infections averaged 43,000 a day over the past week, a 15% increase on the week before.
UK encourages booster jabs, resists new virus restrictions
Under pressure from rising infections and alarmed health experts, the British government on Wednesday urged millions of people to get booster vaccine shots but resisted calls to reimpose coronavirus restrictions such as mandatory mask-wearing.
This photograph provided by India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) shows NDRF personnel rescuing civilians stranded following heavy rains at Chhara village near Nainital, Uttarakhand, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Nainital remained cut off from the rest of the state as roads leading to it were either blocked by landslides or washed away. ( National Disaster Response Force via AP)
46 dead after heavy rains, landslides in northern India
At least 46 people have died and several are missing after floods triggered by heavy rains hit the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer holds a medical mask prior to the start of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, German, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. (Ina Fassbender/Pool Photo via AP)
Germany sees more patrols on Polish border to curb migration
Germany's top security official has proposed introducing joint German-Polish patrols on the two countries' border to help clamp down on illegal crossings into Germany by migrants arriving from Belarus
Medics wearing a special suit to protect against coronavirus treat a patient with coronavirus at an ICU at the Moscow City Clinical Hospital 52, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. Russia hit another daily record of coronavirus deaths Tuesday as rapidly surging infection rates raised pressure on the country's health care system and prompted the government to suggest declaring a nonworking week.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia's daily coronavirus deaths mount to another high
Russia's coronavirus deaths have surged to another daily record as soaring infections prompted the Cabinet to suggest declaring a nonworking week to stem contagion
In-N-Out Burger signs fill the skyline on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, in Calif. The In-N-Out hamburger chain is sizzling mad after San Francisco shut down its indoor dining for refusing to check customers' vaccination status. The company's Fisherman's Wharf location - its only one in San Francisco - was temporarily shut by the Department of Public Health on Oct. 14. (AP Photo/Adam Lau)
San Francisco shuts burger spot for not checking vaccination
The In-N-Out hamburger chain is sizzling mad after San Francisco shut down its indoor dining for refusing to check customers' vaccination status
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 file photo, a jogger runs along McCovey Cove outside Oracle Park in San Francisco, under darkened skies from wildfire smoke.Health problems tied to climate change are all getting worse, according to two reports published in the medical journal Lancet on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. An unprecedented Pacific Northwest and Canadian heat wave hit this summer, which a previous study showed couldn't have happened without human-caused climate change. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
Reports: Health problems tied to global warming on the rise
Two new reports show that death, disease and other health problems linked to global warming are rapidly rising
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Lake Zurich trustee chides former candidate for legal actions involving village politics
Lake Zurich board member Jonathan Sprawka blasted onetime trustee candidate Eric Dubiel for filing what Sprawka calls "frivolous suits against the village and trustees." Dubiel admitted to two legal actions related to village politics.
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2021, file photo, Sikh community members shout slogans during the funeral of Supinder Kaur, a slain school principal in Srinagar, India. A spate of recent killings has rattled Indian-controlled Kashmir, with violence targeting local minority members and Indian civilians from outside the disputed region. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)
Wave of killings triggers memories of dark past in Kashmir
A spate of recent killings has rattled Indian-controlled Kashmir, with violence targeting local minority members and Indian civilians from outside the disputed region
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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