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Beijing took its latest step toward moving past Covid-19, laying plans to lift restrictions on international travel—even as the country’s hospitals continue to fill up.

The scrapping of the quarantine requirement starting Jan. 8 is a major step toward reopening travel with the rest of the world, which the government severely curtailed in a bid to keep the virus out. (Image credit: Ng Han Guan/AP)

Ukraine’s foreign minister told the AP that his government is aiming to have a summit, preferably at the United Nations with Secretary-General António Guterres as a possible mediator. (Image credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

(Reuters) – SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm’s satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he tweeted he would activate the service there amid

Holiday sales rose as American spending remained resilient during the critical shopping season despite surging prices on everything from food to rent, according to one measure.

Iranian authorities ordered a Dubai-bound flight to land on Monday, barring family members of an outspoken Iranian football icon from leaving the country and accusing them of taking part in anti-government protests. The wife and a daughter of Ali Daei

From Jan. 8, visitors will be required to show only a negative P.C.R. test taken within 48 hours. The restrictions had cut the country off from the rest of the world for nearly three years.

White House condemns Abbott’s Christmas Eve migrant stunt as ‘cruel, dangerous and shameful’  The Independent

A sweeping national survey of the electorate, AP VoteCast, finds that Republican House candidates nationwide won the support of 38 percent of independent voters during last month’s midterm elections.

January 6 panel’s body of work boosts DoJ case against Trump, experts say  The Guardian US