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Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan resigned on Monday, the ministry said, in a sign of political fallout in the exSoviet republic after a ceasefire in the NagornoKarabakh conflict that locked in territorial gains for Azerbaijan.

Oil prices settled up more than 2% on Monday after trading higher earlier in the day as Moderna Inc said its experimental vaccine was 94.5% effective in preventing COVID19.

Presidentelect Joe Biden is set to outline his plans to revive the nation's economy in the midst of a global health crisis on Monday as he pushes forward with his transition to the White House despite President Donald Trump's refusal to accept the electio...

Moderna Inc said on Monday its experimental vaccine was 94.5% effective in preventing COVID19 based on interim data from a latestage clinical trial, becoming the second U.S. company in a week to report results that far exceed expectations.

Presidentelect Joe Biden's scientific advisers plan to meet with vaccine makers in coming days even as a stalled presidential transition keeps them out of the loop on government plans to inoculate all Americans against COVID19.

Moving slowly over the southwestern Caribbean Sea, the hurricane was forecast to pass near or over the tiny Colombian island of Providencia late Sunday and hit northeastern Nicaragua and eastern Honduras late Monday.

David Beasley said that the Norwegian Nobel Committee was looking at the work the agency does every day in conflicts, disasters and refugee camps, often putting staffers' lives at risk to feed millions of hungry people -- but also to send a message to the...

Ten people died on Saturday in a fire at a Romanian hospital treating coronavirus patients, the country's agency for emergency situations (ISU) said.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin told his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Saturday to take care of Christian shrines in parts of NagornoKarabakh that Azerbaijan gets under this week's ceasefire agreement, the Kremlin said.

Canadians have time to tamp down the surging second wave of COVID19 by Christmas if they act now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, as some provinces impose new health restrictions.

Democrat Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, beating Republican President Donald Trump after a longerthanusual process of counting mailin ballots that a record number of Americans relied on during the coronavirus pandemic.

Civilians fleeing fighting in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region described bombing by government jets, shooting on the streets and killings with machetes, as they joined thousands of refugees crossing into neighbouring Sudan.

Koshiba, a distinguished professor at the University of Tokyo, died at a Tokyo hospital on Thursday, the university announced Friday. It didn't provide a cause of death.

Russian sanctions against Germany in the case of the poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny are not justified, a German government spokesman said in Berlin on Friday.

Ethiopia sought to tighten its grip on the rebellious Tigray region on Friday by appointing a new local leader during a military offensive that has killed hundreds and shaken the wider Horn of Africa region.

The African Union has dismissed its security head, an Ethiopian national, after the Ethiopian government accused him of disloyalty to the country amid its conflict with a restive region that threatens to destabilize the Horn of Africa.