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this was not surprising "because the vaccines are not 100% effective". "They're very, very effective, but not 100%, and as a higher proportion of the population is double-vaccinated, it's inevitable that those 10% of that very large number remain at risk, and therefore will be amongst the people who both catch the infection and end up in hospital."

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will defeat Democrat Jenny Wilson to succeed retiring GOP Senator Orrin Hatch in Utah, Fox News can project.

A Queens elementary school teacher arrested on Thursday and accused of repeatedly sexually abusing two students had been investigated 10 years before for inappropriately touching students at another school, but was allowed to continue teaching with only a warning letter, officials said. Wilbert Cortez, a computer teacher at P.S. 174 in Forest Hills, was arrested Thursday morning and accused of molesting two boys, ages 8 and 9, over the course of the 2010-11 school year, the Queens District Attorney’s office said. Cortez was expected to be arraigned on Thursday night, and the DA’s office did not know if he had...

Serb teenager wounded in Kosovo KIM Info-service Gracanica, 30 November 2005. A Serb teenager, Dragomir Jovanovic (17) was wounded today in a drive-by shooting in central Kosovo near Pristina, Kosovo police and local Serbian sources confirmed. The victim was hit on the left arm and his condition is not life-threatening, said Dr. Dragan Peric, from Simonida hospital in the nearby Serbian village of Gracanica. He confirmed that the state of the young man is stable. The Serb teenager was shot at from a passing dark red Audi A4 on the regional road in the ethnically mixed village of Susica, 10...