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Bonds dropped and stocks gained on Wednesday, as news of a working COVID19 vaccine seemed to inoculate investors against worry about surging infections, while the kiwi leapt as traders pared bets on New Zealand imposing negative interest rates.

The United Nations and rights groups have urged an investigation into the use of guns by police in the Mexican city of Cancun this week to disperse a feminist protest over the death of a young woman.

The United States reported a record number of new COVID19 cases for the seventh day in a row on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, while the number of deaths surged to their highest daily count since August.

President Donald Trump's campaign said on Tuesday it would file a lawsuit to stop the battleground state of Michigan from certifying its election results, as congressional Democrats said a witness who had raised accusations of ballot tampering in Pennsylv...

Republicans are grasping for ways to reverse Joe Bidens win in Wisconsin over President Donald Trump, despite there being no evidence of widespread fraud or voting irregularities in the state.

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court reported Tuesday that the recent failed offensive by Libyas easternbased forces involved a pattern of violence and the use of mines by retreating forces that harmed civilians, which is a war crime w...

International press groups expressed concern Tuesday about a spike in the number of journalists killed in Mexico, after three were murdered within the space of 10 days.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday urged premiers of the country's 10 provinces to "do the right thing" and take stricter measures to fight a rapidly spreading second wave of the coronavirus.

Bosnia's autonomous BosniakCroat Federation will introduce an 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew from Wednesday after a sharp rise in coronavirus cases and deaths, officials said on Tuesday.

At the moment there is no sign the jihadist who killed four people last week in a shooting rampage in central Vienna had help in carrying out his attack, Vienna's police chief said on Tuesday.

Early in the day, pharma major Pfizer announced that its vaccine, as per preliminary estimates, has been found to be 90 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19.

China reported 22 new COVID19 cases as of Nov. 9, down from 33 cases a day earlier, its health authority said on Tuesday.

A Virginia gynecologist has been found guilty of submitting false insurance claims after performing what authorities described as unnecessary surgeries on women, including hysterectomies and tubal ligations.

Officials in the county of El Paso, Texas, said on Monday they are bringing in 10 temporary refrigerated morgue trailers to contend with one of the worst surges in coronavirus in the United States.

Federal authorities arrested a New York City police officer Monday on charges he served as a lookout for drug traffickers who smuggled hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the United States.