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  New Yorkers get free marijuana joint after Covid-19 vaccination

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 03:20pm on April 21, 2021

  New Yorkers who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 were able to get an unlikely freebie Tuesday: a marijuana joint...

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  Thai coffin-maker kickflips his caskets into skateboards

  Agence France-Presse . Bangkok | Updated at 11:46am on March 24, 2021

  From a final resting place for the dead to a gnarly way to land a trick, a Thai coffin-maker is affixing Buddhist emblems to the...

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  Indian passenger train 'rolls backwards for 35 km'

  Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 07:19pm on March 18, 2021

  An Indian passenger train rolled backwards for 35 kilometres (20 miles), reports said Thursday, in an alarming but injury-free incident caught in a video that...

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  China launches virus passport

  Agence France-Presse. Beijing | Updated at 03:33pm on March 09, 2021

  China has launched a health certificate programme for Chinese international travellers, leading the world in plans for so-called virus passports. The digital certificate, which shows...

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  Biden’s dogs back to dog house from White House after biting case

  Agence France-Presse. Washington | Updated at 10:28am on March 09, 2021

  President Joe Biden has sent his two dogs back to his family home in Wilmington, Delaware, after the younger of the two German Shepherds was...

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  Nine great apes of San Diego zoo receive COVID-19 vaccines

  Agence France-Presse . Los Angeles | Updated at 11:03am on March 06, 2021

  Nine great apes at San Diego Zoo have become the first non-human primates given COVID-19 vaccinations, officials at the California zoo said on Friday...

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  71kg of waste found in stray Indian cow's stomach

  Agence France-Presse .Faridabad | Updated at 06:35pm on March 04, 2021

  Indian vets have extracted 71 kilograms (156.5 pounds) of plastic, nails and other garbage from a pregnant cow, but both the animal and her baby...

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  Rooster fitted with knife kills owner during cockfight in India

  New Age Online | Updated at 09:44am on February 28, 2021

  A rooster killed its owner by slashing him with a knife attached to its leg at a banned cockfight in India, reports Independent UK. The...

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  Coughing Tanzanian minister gives press conf to raise alarm

  Agence France-Presse . Dar es Salaam | Updated at 11:27am on February 25, 2021

  A distressing video of Tanzania’s finance minister coughing and gasping as he gave a press conference to defend the state of his health, was widely...

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  Lebanon MPs skip vaccine queue putting funding at risk

  Agence France-Presse. Beirut | Updated at 09:46pm on February 23, 2021

  Lebanon was criticised on Tuesday after 16 members of parliament jumped the queue for COVID-19 vaccine jabs, putting World Bank vaccination funding in jeopardy by...