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Amid a worsening second wave of coronavirus infections and mounting domestic pressure, Brazil's Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello pledged on Thursday to vaccinate the country's entire population against COVID19 in 2021.

Romania's centrist President Klaus Iohannis will hold consultations with political parties on Monday on forming a new government, his office said on Thursday.

Xi, 67, has amassed power the likes of which has not been since Chairman Mao Zedong.

Britain's medicine regulator warned people with significant allergies not to get PfizerBioNTech's COVID19 vaccine after two people suffered adverse reactions, but was set to give more detailed guidance on Wednesday based on reviews of those cases.

Economic relief and a vaccine drew nearer to reality on Wednesday to counter a coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the U.S. economy and killed 286,487 people with yearend holiday gatherings expected to fuel another surge in infections.

Veteran Palestinian negotiator and women's rights advocate Hanan Ashrawi said on Wednesday she would quit her senior post in the Palestine Liberation Organization at the end of 2020, and called for political reforms.

FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that it had been hacked, likely by a government, and that an arsenal of hacking tools used to test the defenses of its clients had been stolen.

Cardinal George Pell, a leading Roman Catholic conservative, said the Vatican needs clear rules to govern the status of future popes who resign rather than rule for life and that such a move would help Church unity.

The Food and Drug Administration posted its analysis online even as across the Atlantic, Britain on Tuesday began vaccinating its oldest citizens with the Pfizer-BioNTech shots.

A United Nations team visiting Ethiopia's rebellious Tigray region was shot at after breaking through two checkpoints, the government said on Tuesday, proclaiming that it did not need a "babysitter" for relief operations in the warhit north.

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock appeared to wipe tears from his eyes on live television on Tuesday as he spoke about the hope that the COVID19 vaccine rollout would bring after the doom and gloom of the pandemic.

The new height of Mt Everest, the world's highest peak, is 8,848.86 metres, China and Nepal jointly announced on Tuesday, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said in a brief report.

The NHS said it is undertaking the biggest and most highly anticipated immunisation campaign in history at 50 hospital hubs, with more starting vaccinations over the coming weeks and months as the programme ramps up after the first set of doses arrived fr...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the city will ban dining in restaurants after 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) and announce new measures later in the day to curb a rise in coronavirus cases in the densely packed financial hub.

Lawmakers are giving themselves more time to sort through their endofsession business on government spending and COVID19 relief, preparing a oneweek stopgap spending bill that would prevent a shutdown this weekend.

The bill, after its House and Senate versions were reconciled by a bipartisan Congressional conference committee last week, is slated to be passed by both the chambers of the Congress this week before it is sent to the White House for President Donald Tru...