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Snowed blanketed northern Germany on Sunday, prompting rail operator Deutsche Bahn to suspend connections to the Netherlands and some longdistance domestic services as the national weather centre warned of "extremely heavy drifting snow".

The 52-year-old is one of the two new undersecretaries named to the synod, the body of bishops that studies major questions of doctrine and where she has been a consultant since 2019.

France on Saturday reported a fall in new COVID19 infections and in the number of patients being treated in hospital, slightly easing pressure on the health system as the country rolled out shots with a third approved vaccine.

President Joe Biden gave a pep talk to a California woman who was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic, during a conversation the White House said is part of an effort to help him engage more consistently with regular Americans.

The lawyer for Myanmar's elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and ousted President Win Myint said they were being held in their homes after being detained on Monday when the army seized power and that he was unable to meet them.

U.S. Sen. Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the Senates fourth most senior member, has told confidantes that he does not intend to run for reelection next year prompting some Republicans to urge the powerful, establishment politician to reconsider, even as p...

Erkki Parkkinen had just come in from a lovely February day in Salla.

Vietnam is expected to get access to the first batch of COVID19 vaccines within the first quarter under the COVAX coronavirus vaccine sharing scheme, its government said on Friday.

About half of Americans say the Senate should vote to convict former President Donald Trump at the end of his impeachment trial, even though a majority think he bears at least some blame for the Capitol insurrection.

Since Myanmar's new military rulers imposed a temporary blockade on Facebook on Thursday, thousands in the Southeast Asian country have joined Twitter, according to app downloads and a Reuters estimate.

The coalition government in New Caledonia, a French territory in the Pacific that is the world's fourthlargest nickel ore producer, collapsed on Tuesday after proindependence politicians resigned.

South Korean Prime Minister Chung Syekyun on Thursday ordered a revamp of social distancing guidelines in a bid to win greater public support for efforts to stop local transmission of the new coronavirus.

U.S. authorities returned dozens of Haitians to the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez from El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, a move that appeared to contradict a policy agreement in place with Mexico brokered under the previous U.S. administration.

China reported 30 new COVID19 cases on the mainland on Feb. 3, official data showed on Thursday, up slightly from 25 cases a day earlier but still well below the peaks seen at the height of the latest wave last month.

Brazil's Car Wash anticorruption unit has officially shut down, the end of an era for a team of prosecutors that helped send dozens of Latin American political and business leaders to jail, including several former presidents.

The charges faced by Coy, a 19-year veteran of the force, also include dereliction of duty for failure to use his body camera and for failing to tell the other officer he believed Hill presented a danger.