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The World Bank has approved $12 billion in financing to help developing countries buy and distribute coronavirus vaccines, tests, and treatments, aiming to support the vaccination of up to 1 billion people.

Lebanon's Hezbollah and its ally Amal criticised on Wednesday the delegation set to negotiate with Israel over their disputed sea border, calling for changing the team hours before the first meeting.

Myanmar centenarian Thein Khin not only beat the coronavirus, but barely knew she had it.

Jamer Gonzalez used to organize about nine weddings, birthday parties or company lunches each month at his banquet hall in a working class district of Colombia's capital, earning enough to live comfortably and send his two eldest daughters to college.

A group of asylum-seekers from Cameroon facing deportation back to their conflict-ridden country say they were pressured with force by U.S. immigration officers to sign their deportation paperwork, and that they and a slew of others facing an imminent ret...

According to Real Clear Politics, which tracks major opinion polls, Biden is leading the state by 3.7 percentage points. However, Trump has been attracting thousands of people to his election rallies in Florida, despite coronavirus social distancing measu...

Wisconsin has hit a pair of grim coronavirus milestones, with record highs for positive cases and deaths reported Tuesday, on the eve of an overflow field hospital opening near Milwaukee.

US--VIRUS OUTBREAK-LANDLORD SQUEEZE Map. The following digital embed shows the share of households in each state that say they will have difficulty in meeting next months rent. This map will update periodically. Source: Aspen Institute Financial Security...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he's scheduling a vote regarding a GOP COVID19 relief bill for later this month, saying aid to hardhit businesses shouldn't be held up by gridlock involving other aid proposals.

An armed security guard hired to protect a television news crew at a weekend protest shot and killed a protester after he reached into his shirt, causing the guard to fear for his safety, according to a lawyer representing the guards family.

Germany and France on Tuesday pressured the United Kingdom to make concessions in three key areas of Brexit trade negotiations or face a nodeal situation as of Jan. 1 which would hit hard a U.K. economy already hurt by the pandemic.

The judge investigating a massive blast in Beirut that killed and wounded many people two months ago has received a report from the FBI about their own probe of the blast, staterun National News Agency reported Tuesday.

A voter initiative led by Michelle Obama is partnering with a similar group founded by NBA star LeBron James and other prominent Black athletes and entertainers to sponsor events in major U.S. cities starting next week to generate excitement about voting...

Tokyo has lodged protests to Beijing over the entry of Chinese coast guard ships into Japan's territorial waters off disputed East China Sea islands and their refusal to move out for a third day Tuesday, Japanese officials said.

In 2016, Donald Trump's campaign chairman shared polling data with an associate suspected of ties to Russian intelligence. Another Trump associate sought inside information about Democratic emails stolen by Kremlin operatives. The candidate himself invite...

Authorities in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao said they have completed coronavirus tests on more than 1 million people following the countrys first reported local outbreak of the virus in nearly two months.