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The statement followed last week’s announcement about the footwear in the parade planned for the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.

Bharat Biotech has said it followed a “step-by-step" approach for the regulatory approval and supply contract of its COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil.

President Joe Biden said on Saturday he has directed U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate who was behind a sophisticated ransomware attack that hit hundreds of American businesses and led to suspicions of Russian gang involvement.

Azerbaijan handed over 15 prisoners of Armenian origin to Armenia on Saturday in return for maps detailing the locations of 92,000 antitank and antipersonnel mines, Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said.

A U.S. judge on Friday said a South Korean man wanted on embezzlement charges related to a 2014 ferry sinking that killed 304 people, mainly high school students, is subject to extradition to his home country.

A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident.

The former host of the To Catch a Predator TV series turned himself in Friday after a Michigan judge issued a warrant for his arrest for noshowing at a court hearing to explain why he had not given a defense lawyer more footage of a police sting operation...

South Africa's exleader Jacob Zuma on Friday asked the country's top court to annul his 15month jail sentence for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry, saying it was excessive, unjust and might kill him if he catches COVID19 in prison.

South Africa didn't start trying to buy vaccine doses until too late and has been towards the back of the vaccine queue, which has led to a shortage of supplies.

The Samoan government says three homebased members of the Samoa Olympic weightlifting team will not be allowed to compete in Tokyo due to COVID19 concerns in Japan.

The Justice Department is halting federal executions after a historic use of capital punishment by the Trump administration, which carried out 13 executions in six months.

A coalition of attorneys general from nearly three dozen states and nine pharmacy associations are supporting a North Dakota law aimed at regulating pharmacy benefit managers.

Organizers of the Rugby League World Cup scheduled for England in October have deferred a final decision on whether the tournament will go ahead as planned.

A former traveling medical technician who stole drugs and infected more than 40 patients with hepatitis C will remain in prison after a judge called his request for compassionate release the least meritorious hed ever seen.

On Thursday, 249 passengers on flights from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Singapore are expected to land on the island -- where sandy beaches have been relatively deserted since the virus hit.

Oregon and Washington on Wednesday lifted most of their COVID19 restrictions to become two of the last states to broadly ease virus orders put in place in the very first days of the pandemic.