Poland has finalized a deal to acquire a second batch of 180 South Korean tanks under a 2022 agreement that will eventually see Warsaw boost its arsenal with almost 1,000 of the armored vehicles.

Thousands of South Korean medical students are set to return to classes after a 17-month long boycott, the Korean Medical Association has announced. Trainee doctors walked out to oppose government plans to increase medical school admissions, arguing it would lower the quality of the education they received.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California met with Democratic voters in an early primary state that has become pivotal in presidential races.

The planned 2,800 miles of rail line would stretch from Ilhéus, Bahia, in northeastern Brazil, through the Amazon and the state of Acre, and ultimately cross the Andes Mountains into Peru.

In the Midwest, quarter-sized hail and an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out, while in the South, flood alerts are in effect for areas that were devastated by flash floods last week.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Just a week had remained before scientists in South Africa were to begin clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, and hopes were high for another step toward limiting one of history’s deadliest pandemics. Then the email arrived.

South Korean medical students who walked out of school last year in protest at a government plan to increase medical school admissions said on Saturday that they would return to campus, calling on authorities to normalize academic schedules.

Thunderstorms moving through Colorado’s mountains could bring heavy rain, large hail and wind gusts to parts of the south metro and Interstate 25 corridor.

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