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The second round of stimulus checks from the US government are going out this week. Business Insider reports the checks will pay up to $600 each, or $1,200 per married couple, plus additional funds for children. According to Congress's bill authorizing the payments, most of the direct cash payments will be sent to qualifying Americans by January 15. To track your payment, visit the 'Get My Payment' section of the IRS website at www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment Direct deposits and paper checks are arriving this week.
Bureaucracy and infrastructure are preventing adequate relief goods from getting to quake survivors in remote areas of Nepal, officials say. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Members of Bolivia's Air Force survey flood damage and deliver aid to the most severely affected areas. Nathan Frandino reports.
In Hualien, relief tents are set up to provide shelter to residents after the most powerful earthquake in 25 years hit Taiwan, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 1,000. Strict building regulations and widespread public disaster awareness appear to have staved off a major catastrophe for the earthquake-prone island, which lies near the junction of two tectonic plates. IMAGES
"The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," Catherine Russell Executive director of UNICEF tell UN Security Council. "Based on these figures, children account for forty percent of the deaths in Gaza. This is unprecedented," she adds. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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