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The Indian variant has now been classed as a Variant of Concern (VOC) by Public Health England (PHE).

The surge has spilled into Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Pakistan is also struggling to contain a third wave of infections.

Counting commenced Sunday afternoon at a hotel in Richmond to tabulate the votes cast by tens of thousands of Virginia Republicans a day earlier in the party's nominating contest for governor and other statewide offices.

Singersongwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such uptempo favorites as Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Personality and the semiforbidden Stagger Lee, has died. He was 88.

A French air force pilot has filed a criminal complaint alleging that as part of a hazing ritual he was tied to a target on a firing range while fighter planes flew overhead and fired off munitions, his lawyer told Reuters on Saturday.

Around the world, the number of new Covid-19 has increased for the ninth straight week

The arraignment of a man who allegedly stabbed two elder women without warning at a San Francisco bus stop was postponed Friday after he refused to leave his jail cell and appear in court.

An Army trainee has waived his first chance to appear in court on dozens of charges related to allegations he held a bus full of South Carolina elementary school students and its driver hostage at gunpoint.

New Jersey taxpayers are on the hook for about $1.3 million dollars in fees to a criminal justice consultant to help the Department of Corrections amid a criminal investigation into what the attorney general said was a brutal attack on inmates at the stat...

Colombia's government announced Friday that was expelling a Cuban diplomat for activities incompatible with his position, and Cuba identified the official as its secondranking emissary to the country. It accused Colombia of trying to divert attention from...

Qatar Finance Minister Ali Sherif alEmadi was arrested over embezzlement allegations and stripped of his duties, officials said on Thursday.

Bruno DiFabio, a celebrity pizza chef who owns restaurants in Connecticut and New York, was sentenced to 30 days in prison Thursday for tax evasion.

China has drawn up plans to upgrade an airstrip and bridge on one of Kiribati's remote islands about 3,000km southwest of Hawaii, lawmakers told Reuters, in a bid to revive a site that hosted military aircraft during World War Two.

Israeli troops shot and killed a 16yearold Palestinian boy during clashes in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian officials said, and an Israeli teen wounded by an alleged Palestinian gunman earlier this week died of his injuries.

Israeli troops shot and killed a 16yearold Palestinian male during clashes in the occupied West Bank late on Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Salvage crews have begun removing fuel from a lift boat that capsized off the Louisiana coast in a storm last month, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.