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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is ordering military leaders to spend time talking to their troops about extremism in the ranks, after a number of former and current military members took part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last month.

President Joe Biden's nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency says he learned the importance of preserving the outdoors while hunting and fishing with his father and grandfather in rural North Carolina.

The United States and Russia said on Wednesday they had extended the New START arms control treaty for five years, preserving the last treaty limiting deployments of the world's two largest strategic nuclear arsenals.

The Supreme Court is making it harder for a multimilliondollar lawsuit involving centuriesold religious artworks obtained by the Nazis from Jewish art dealers to continue in U.S. courts.

The United Kingdom demanded a twoyear extension to grace periods for checks on goods going between Britain and Northern Ireland on Wednesday as European Union and British officials met to discuss problems over border arrangements following Brexit.

The COVAX vaccine facility is aligning with the European Medicines Agency and Britain's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency on age recommendations for use of the AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine, the GAVI vaccine alliance said on Wednesday.

The Turkish university head at the centre of a month of protests over his appointment by President Tayyip Erdogan said he has no intention of stepping down, after tensions rose with more than 300 people detained in the last two days.

Britain will mark the memory of Captain Tom Moore, the World War Two veteran who lifted the nation's spirits by raising millions of pounds for health service workers battling the coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Wednesday.

Two of three teenage boys will be tried as adults for charges of murder and arson in a Denver house fire that killed five Senegalese immigrants, including two young children, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

A federal judge last week ordered the Biden administration not to enforce a 100-day moratorium on deportations, but the ruling did not require the government to schedule them. In recent days, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported immigrants...

Pennsylvania's famous groundhog emerged from his tree stump on Tuesday to predict another six weeks of winter, just as the northeastern United States got blanketed with its second day of snow.

Iran has agreed to allow the crew members of a South Korean vessel it seized for alleged environmental pollution to leave the country, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told state media on Tuesday.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia hoped the European Union would not link its ties with Russia to the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and said it would respond in kind to any harsh criticism over the matter from the European Union.

The U.S. government on Monday promised undocumented migrants the same access to COVID19 vaccines as other civilians, and said inoculation centres would be immigration enforcementfree zones.

Japan needs to link up private COVID19 testing with public databases to get a firmer grip on the extent of the pandemic, health experts said on Tuesday, a recommendation that comes as the government prepares to extend the country's state of emergency.

A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived on Tuesday at an animal health facility in China's central city of Wuhan in the search for clues about the origins of the COVID19 pandemic.