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A team from the World Health Organization (WHO) will arrive in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to begin investigating the origins of the COVID19 pandemic.

Police said they were called to the complex in the capital, Wellington, at 5:25 a.m. after getting reports that a man had been seen with an axe. They said that 10 minutes later, they arrested a 31-year-old man without incident.

The Senate Finance Committee is expected to hold a confirmation hearing for Treasury Secretarynominee Janet Yellen on Jan. 19, two sources familiar with the planning said Tuesday.

The Dutch government said on Tuesday it would extend lockdown measures, including the closure of schools and shops, by at least three weeks to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is releasing millions of COVID19 vaccine doses it had been holding back for second shots and urged states to offer them to all Americans over age 65 or with chronic health conditions.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, without providing hard evidence, that al Qaeda had established a new home base in Iran.

Ethiopia warned Sudan on Tuesday it was running out of patience with its neighbour's continued military buildup in a disputed border area despite attempts to diffuse tensions with diplomacy.

Kuwaiti ministers handed in their resignations to the prime minister on Tuesday, the government communications office (CGC) said, days after lawmakers submitted a motion asking to question the premier over issues including the makeup of the cabinet.

A Russian judge has been asked to jail Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in absentia for having allegedly broken the terms of a suspended sentence he had been serving and for other infractions, court documents showed on Tuesday.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will deliver new guidelines on Tuesday aimed at getting coronavirus vaccinations moving faster, Axios reported https://www.axios.com/trumpcoronavirusvaccinesseniorsdosesfasterca22e89271d44e049219b41fec7995...

China reported a drop in the number of new COVID19 cases in the past 24 hours amid a flurry of new measures in Hebei province surrounding Beijing, ranging from home quarantines starting on Tuesday in one county and a lockdown of the provincial capital.

The Supreme Court is declining to get involved in a case about free speech outside a Pittsburgh abortion clinic.

Facebook has taken down a network in Uganda linked to the country's ministry of information for using fake and duplicate accounts to post ahead of this week's presidential election, the U.S. social media giant said on Monday.

Pope Francis, in another step towards greater equality for women in the Roman Catholic Church, on Monday changed its law to formally allow them to serve as readers at liturgies, altar servers and distributors of communion.

Teachers in Malta returned to their classrooms on Monday and ended a twoday strike after the government agreed to give them priority in the COVID19 vaccination campaign.

A World Health Organization (WHO) team of international experts tasked with investigating the origins of the COVID19 pandemic will arrive in China on Jan. 14, Chinese authorities said on Monday.