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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had "terminated" Defense Secretary Mark Esper, appearing to use his final months in office after his election defeat to settle scores within his administration.

Britain expects to have 10 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech's candidate COVID19 vaccine available by the end of the year, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said there were several hurdles to go after its positive clinical trial results.

Iran's health ministry reported on Monday a rise of 10,463 in the number of daily coronavirus cases, bringing total cases in the Middle East's worstaffected country to 692,949.

The governor of the U.S. state of Utah, Gary Herbert, declared late on Sunday a new state of emergency to address hospital overcrowding in response to weeks of stress on its hospital networks due to a surge of novel coronavirus cases.

French farleft leader JeanLuc Melenchon said on Sunday he would run for president in 2022 if he received enough public support for what would be his third bid for the Elysee Palace.

The French foreign minister asserted his country's "profound respect for Islam" during a visit to Cairo on Sunday in a dispute with the Muslim world over France's defence of the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad.

Stacey Abrams spent years working to convince political power players that Georgia is a genuine twoparty battleground, a Deep South state where the left could compete if it organized Black voters, other sporadic voters and stopped apologizing for being De...

Berlin's venerable Tegel airport hosted its final flight on Sunday, a Parisbound Air France plane that left to cheers and a fountain salute from the terminal's fire engines.

"God Bless You Donald and Melania" read the poster hanging over an Israeli highway during the U.S. election campaign. In nearby Palestinian areas, antiTrump graffiti adorned walls.

This was Biden's first public appearance since US television networks declared earlier Saturday that he'd taken an insurmountable lead in the nearly complete count from Tuesday's election, giving him victory against Trump, who will now become a rare one-t...

Some of the United States' biggest and closest allies quickly congratulated Democrat Joe Biden on Saturday, recognising his presidential election victory even though Donald Trump, with whom several have had rocky relations, had yet to concede.

In his unsuccessful campaign for reelection, President Donald Trump repeatedly warned that a victory for Joe Biden would be a win for China and that Beijing would "own America."

US Presidential Election Results 2020 Live Updates: Biden broke the record for most votes received by a presidential candidate, amassing more than 70 million.

Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia for Perdues Senate seat.

Drugmakers and research centers around the world are working on COVID19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands of participants well underway. Some companies had suggested early trial data could be ready...

President Donald Trump's campaign and Republicans have reached out to donors as they seek to raise at least $60 million (£45 million) to fund legal challenges brought by President Donald Trump over the U.S. presidential election's results, two sources fam...