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Taiwan has agreed to buy almost 20 million doses of COVID19 vaccine, including 10 million from AstraZeneca Plc, the government said on Wednesday, adding that it had confirmed the island's first case of the new British variant of the disease.

Singapore authorities arrested a man on his return to the citystate on Wednesday after he was jailed for spying for China in the United States, saying they would investigate whether he posed a security risk.

Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy analyst who served 30 years in prison for spying for Israel, arrived in the country early on Wednesday after parole restrictions on his travel expired, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported.

Louisville police have taken steps that could result in the firing of an officer who sought the noknock search warrant that led detectives to the apartment where Breonna Taylor was fatally shot.

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Trump administration's plan to require hospitals and insurers to disclose the actual prices for common tests and procedures.

If there's one silver lining in a year marred by a deadly pandemic, civil unrest, and economic and political turmoil, it's this: The number of mass shootings that happened in public was the lowest in more than a decade.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Tuesday that he was back in his country but still recovering from COVID19 after two months away.

Authorities in Cyprus should consider stripping citizenship from a dozen individuals over their alleged involvement in acts of theft and fraud, according to the findings of a probe into 42 foreign nationals who obtained a Cypriot passport in exchange for...

A woman in central Mexico has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for inciting the 2018 mob killing of two men, prosecutors said.

U.S. Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harris received a COVID19 vaccination live on television on Tuesday, as the incoming Biden administration seeks to boost confidence in the inoculation even while warning it will be months before it is available to all.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck central Croatia on Tuesday, killing a child and injuring many people in the town of Petrinja, and also shook several neighbouring countries, officials and residents said.

Spanish police found a warehouse full of Nazi memorabilia as they arrested three suspected leaders of an international arms ring that sold guns to drug traffickers along the Costa del Sol, the Civil Guard force said on Tuesday.

Iran launched human trials of its first domestic COVID19 vaccine candidate, state media reported on Tuesday, which Tehran says could help it defeat the pandemic despite U.S. sanctions interfering with its ability to import vaccines.

Ireland may be able to provide a COVID19 vaccine to everyone in the country who wants one by August in a "fairly positive scenario", a senior official tasked with vaccine rollout said on Tuesday.

This year was like no other for oil prices.

Russia's prison service on Monday gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a last minute ultimatum: Fly back from Germany at once and report at a Moscow office early on Tuesday morning, or be jailed if you return after that deadline.