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Pharmaceutical companies are racing to develop effective treatments for the disease amid a surge in COVID-19 cases that has killed over a million people and battered the world's economy.

The state and federal officials and election technology companies who run U.S. elections say in the strongest such statement to date that the Nov. 3 presidential election was the most secure in American history.

Russia tapped the global debt market on Thursday for the first time this year by opening order books on two sovereign eurodenominated Eurobonds in a bid to secure additional funding, two financial market sources said.

Conspiracy theories and misinformation fuel mistrust in vaccines and could push levels that potential COVID19 vaccines are taken in the United States and Britain below the rates needed to protect communities against the disease, a study found on Thursday.

Iran's intelligence ministry has arrested an Iranian ethnic Arab separatist leader suspected of involvement in an attack on a military parade in 2018 in the Khuzestan province that killed dozens of people, Iranian state TV reported on Thursday.

As Latin American nations test experimental coronavirus vaccines from across the globe and economic heavyweights such as Brazil and Mexico jockey for supply deals with major drugmakers, Communistrun Cuba already has two of its own vaccines in clinical tri...

Britain on Thursday said China had broken its main bilateral treaty on Hong Kong by imposing new rules to disqualify elected legislators in the former British colony, cautioning that it would consider sanctions as part of its response.

An Israeli soldier reported missing this week was found dead near Jerusalem on Thursday, the Israeli military said.

A vaccine is seen as the best chance to break the cycle of deadly virus surges and severe restrictions across much of the world since Covid-19 first emerged in China late last year and ballooned into a pandemic.

A British nurse was charged Wednesday with murdering eight babies and trying to kill another 10 at a hospital in northwest England.

London police say a car has crashed into a police station in north London, but no injuries have been reported.

Israel is in talks with drugmaker Pfizer Inc over its potential COVID19 vaccine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, although it has not signed any deals yet.

Eta regained hurricane strength on Wednesday and was expected to bring squall winds and a storm surge to Florida's west coast before making landfall on Thursday north of Tampa, forecasters said.

Iran has installed a first cascade of advanced centrifuges in the underground Natanz uranium enrichment plant that its deal with major powers says can only be used for firstgeneration IR1 machines, a report by the U.N. atomic watchdog said.

Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against reading too much into a moderate drop in new coronavirus infections almost two weeks into an emergency lockdown in Germany, which reported the biggest rise in COVID deaths on Wednesday since April.

Former French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday asked his successor Emmanuel Macron how he was doing in the face of crises ranging from the COVID19 pandemic to Islamist attacks.