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The proposal from the country's health officials is headlined by a ban that raises the minimum age to buy cigarettes every year beginning in 2023. It would effectively be a permanent ban on cigarettes for those aged 14 or younger.

New Zealand's unique cigarette ban may be a model for other countries

A newly passed law effectively imposes a lifetime cigarette ban for people aged 14 and younger. Researchers applauded it but said similar bans elsewhere could be more challenging.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi gives an interview to The Associated Press, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday. The United Nations' nuclear watchdog now says it's reached a deal with Iran to replace cameras damaged at centrifuge assembly plant.

U.N. watchdog says Iran will replace cameras at nuclear site. Access remains limited

The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran reached a deal to reinstall cameras damaged at centrifuge plant, after the IAEA said restrictions gave a "blurred image" of Iran's nuclear program.

A sign is displayed at a COVID-19 vaccine site in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2021. California is exempting San Francisco from a rule that takes effect requiring all people to wear masks indoors.

California allows San Francisco to maintain existing COVID-19 masking rules

Starting Wednesday, a statewide mask mandate was back in effect, but vaccinated San Francisco residents will be allowed to go without face coverings inside gyms and workplaces.

Lithuania closes embassy in China after last diplomats leave amid Taiwan spat

Lithuania says it's closed its embassy in Beijing and pulled its last diplomat out amid a spat over the European Union nation allowing Taiwan to open a representative office in the capital, Vilnius.

Researchers examined all 19,423 NFL players who took the field for at least one game from 1960 to 2019 in what the scientists said was the largest study of ALS risk in professional football players.

NFL players are 4 times more likely to develop ALS, a new study shows

Scientists who conducted the study say they couldn't determine exactly why the rate was higher but suggested that repetitive head impacts and traumatic brain injuries may play a role.

Cook Inlet fishermen argue case against fisheries managers in state court

Cook Inlet’s commercial fishermen argued in the state’s highest court this week that the Dunleavy administration’s fisheries policy is deliberately…

The leggiest animal on the planet, <em>Eumillipes persephone</em>, from Australia. (<strong>A</strong>) female with 330 segments and 1,306 legs (paratype specimen, T147124). (<strong>B</strong>) ventral view of legs (male holotype, T147101). (<strong>C</strong>) dorsal view of head and ventral view of gonopods (male holotype, T147101). Scale bars, 0.5 mm.

A millipede with 1,300 legs has been found in Australia. It's a new record by far

Entomologists discovered a new species far underground. Despite millipede meaning "a thousand feet," it's the first to have more than 750.

Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., second from left, holds his history degree with South Carolina State University Interim President Alexander Conyers, second from right, on stage with President Biden and Rodney Jenkins, chair of the Board of Trustees, right, during the South Carolina State University's 2021 Fall Commencement Ceremony in Orangeburg, S.C., on Friday.

Biden joins an HBCU in celebrating its graduates — including an old congressional ally

In the commencement speech at South Carolina State University, President Biden credited Rep. Jim Clyburn's public endorsement in 2020 as a pivotal moment in reviving his sluggish campaign.

Birds fly past as a fire consumes an area next to the Trans-Pantanal highway in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, on Sept. 11, 2020.

Nearly 17 million animals died in wildfires in Brazil's wetlands last year

The estimate comes from scientists who examined the number of carcasses they found up to 48 hours after a fire event. The rate of climate change makes such wildfires inevitable, they say.

Homer Electric Association sues over its largest ever instance of power theft

Homer Electric Association is suing a Sterling man for stealing what it said is more than $325,500 in power over seven years — the co-op’s biggest…

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