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he South African variant, which like the UK strain is believed to be more infectious, has now been reported in 23 countries and territories, the WHO said in a statement. 

Taiwan has cancelled or postponed more largescale events after a rare outbreak of domestically transmitted COVID19 cases connected to a hospital, where the military has been sent to help with disinfection.

Responding to a Senator's question during his marathon confirmation hearing that lasted more than four hours, Blinken said this relationship started towards the end of the Clinton administration. During the Obama administration, we deepened cooperation on...

Efforts to assess the impact of a more than sevenmonthold cyberespionage campaign blamed on Russia and boot the intruders remain in their early stages, says the cybersecurity firm that discovered the attack.

Biden enters the White House on January 20 with the top challenge to lift the country from the devastation of a raging pandemic that has killed more than 398,000 Americans and thrown millions into economic distress.

Philippine students and activists protested on Tuesday against a government decision to allow security forces to patrol the campuses of the country's biggest university after authorities accused it of being a breeding ground for communist rebels.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck westcentral Argentina on Monday, followed by at least five aftershocks that shook buildings and sent products tumbling off supermarket shelves, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. The quake hit at a de...

The farright Alternative for Germany says it accepts that people can be German citizens regardless of their ethnocultural background, an aboutface for a party whose leading figures have in the past questioned whether immigrants from outside Europe can be...

Shops in Greece reopened for the first time in two months on Monday as the government took its first steps towards easing coronavirus restrictions, in a bid to breathe life into the battered retail sector.

Egypt next week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of mass protests that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak after nearly three decades in power.

Dozens of Moscow residents queued on Monday to be vaccinated against COVID19 at the GUM department store, opposite the Kremlin on Red Square, where the shot is given on a firstcome, firstserved basis.

Israel approved on Sunday plans to build hundreds of new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, projects it is advancing in the final days of the prosettlement Trump administration.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took off on a plane bound for Russia on Sunday, to return home for the first time since he was poisoned last summer, despite Russian authorities' stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years.

At least 48 people died and 97 people were injured in a militia attack on the West Darfur city of El Geneina on Saturday, Sudan's state news agency SUNA said, citing a local doctors union.

Austria will extend its COVID19 lockdown, with the goal to start easing restrictions from Feb. 8, the government said on Sunday.

Lebanon's top Christian cleric has urged President Michel Aoun to set up a reconciliation meeting with Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri to form a cabinet and end the country's political deadlock.