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U.S. drug developer Novavax Inc said on Monday that it is starting a midstage study of its experimental COVID19 vaccine in South Africa, as the country experiences a surge in coronavirus cases.

Police in Cincinnati said 17 people including some likely fatalities were shot at three separate locations early Sunday morning.

Police in North Macedonia said Sunday they have found 80 migrants during a routine check in the central part of the country and arrested a truck driver for suspected migrant smuggling.

Iran's approach to the United Arab Emirates will change, the country's armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri was quoted as saying on Sunday, after a deal between the Arab state and Tehran's arch foe Israel on normalising ties.

Tropical Storm Josephine weakened early Sunday and the system named Kyle became a posttropical cyclone, forecasters said.

Hundreds of police officers searched shisha bars, tea houses and illegal gambling halls across western Germany early Sunday.

Here in crowded camps in South Sudan, former enemies are meant to be joining forces after a fiveyear civil war so they can help the shattered country recover. But they can barely find enough food.

Mexico will need up to 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses, according to a senior government official, and inoculation of its 120 million inhabitants could start as early as April if clinical trials and regulatory approvals for pharmaceutical firm Astra...

A small group of demonstrators held a noisy protest outside the Washington condo of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy amid growing concerns that he is gutting the U.S. Postal Service to help President Donald Trump win reelection in November.

Snowden, who has been living in exile in Russia since the revelations, has said he would like to return to the United States -- but only on the condition that he receive a fair trial.

Members of the farright Proud Boys group and counterprotesters clashed violently Saturday afternoon in western Michigan, resulting in arrests, police said.

The number of migrants landing on Italy's shores has more than doubled in the last year as an economic crisis in Tunisia fuels migration in boats across the Mediterranean, Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said on Saturday.

One hundred years ago this month, women in the United States were guaranteed the right to vote with ratification of the 19th Amendment secured by a 24-year-old Tennessee legislator's decisive vote, cast at the bidding of his mother.

India great Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket on Saturday.

Irans powerful Revolutionary Guard vowed on Saturday that there would be dangerous consequences for the United Arab Emirates after it announced a historic deal with Israel to open up diplomatic relations.

French Catholics defied coronavirus woes and marched in a procession on Friday towards the NotreDame Cathedral as part of a weekslong pilgrimage even as the government declared Paris a highrisk zone.