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People in Britain will be able to decide whether they want to have the coronavirus vaccine or not, health minister Matt Hancock said on Tuesday, adding that children will not need to be vaccinated.

The coronavirus has spread further among U.S. President Donald Trump's top aides, infecting Housing Secretary Ben Carson and the man leading the Trump campaign's legal challenges to his election loss, officials and sources said on Monday.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga instructed his cabinet on Tuesday to compile a package of stimulus measures focusing on steps to revitalise an economy hit by the coronavirus pandemic, the country's economy minister said.

China reported 22 new COVID19 cases as of Nov. 9, down from 33 cases a day earlier, its health authority said on Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had "terminated" Defense Secretary Mark Esper, appearing to use his final months in office after his election defeat to settle scores within his administration.

Despite Presidentelect Joe Biden's victory, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says President Donald Trump is 100% within his rights to question election results and consider legal options.

Wildlife advocates and environmental groups have announced that they are challenging the removal of federal protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S.

Tropical storm Eta pounded central Cuba with torrential rain on Sunday, bursting the banks of rivers and causing flash flooding in some towns before exiting via the island's northern coast and churning on track to the Florida keys.

Activists and scientists feared further climate change destruction from another four years of Trump in denial in the White House. His defeat totally changes the landscape.

On Nov. 1, as election week dawned, Dr. Juan Fitz lay dying in the same Lubbock, Texas, hospital where he had worked in the emergency room for nearly 20 years.

Rescue workers on Saturday struggled over treacherous roads buried in mud and rubble to a remote mountain village in Guatemala swamped by a devastating storm that has killed dozens of people across Central America and southern Mexico.

While accepting the Democratic presidential nomination in August, Biden pledged to restore the soul of America, and be an ally of the light, not the darkness.

The community will have direct representation in the executive branch with Vice President-Elect Harris, who will be the first Black woman to hold the office, said Neha Dewan, national director of South Asians for Biden.

Belarusian police on Saturday detained dozens of medical professionals who had planned to take part in an antigovernment protest in the capital Minsk, a prominent human rights group said.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden vowed on Friday the vote count would continue as he took the lead in several battleground states and appeared poised to win the White House in the election, even as U.S. President Donald Trump remained defiant a...

A second Mexican state will from next week enter the highest level of coronavirus alert as authorities bid to contain a recent jump in infections in the north of the country, the health ministry said on Friday.