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The U.S. government will pay Pfizer Inc nearly $2 billion for 100 million additional doses of its COVID19 vaccine to bolster its supply as the country grapples with a nationwide spike in infections.

Turkish journalist Can Dundar was sentenced in absentia to 27 years and six months in prison for espionage and aiding an armed terrorist organisation, his lawyers said on Wednesday, calling the verdict politically motivated.

Three French police officers were shot dead by a man when they arrived at a home in SaintJust, a remote commune in central France, to respond to a domestic violence call, police said on Wednesday.

President Vladimir Putin signed laws on Tuesday granting former Russian presidents expanded immunity from prosecution and allowing them to become senators for life in the upper house of parliament once they leave the Kremlin.

South Korea reported its secondhighest daily tally of coronavirus cases as a survey underscored growing public dissatisfaction with President Moon Jaein's handling of the latest wave of infections hitting the country.

The U.S. Justice Department has found a staterun care center for people with intellectual disabilities has likely violated the constitutional rights of residents by subjecting them to human experiments, some of which were deemed dangerous by federal inves...

The U.S. National Science Foundation, the agency overseeing U.S. programs in Antarctica, said it was aware of the reports of positive cases in passengers aboard the Sergeant Aldea.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons says it has started to give the coronavirus vaccine to some highrisk inmates but wont say how many inmates have been vaccinated or how it selects those to receive the vaccine.

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced more sanctions on Syria, intensifying pressure on President Bashar Assad to end the countrys vicious, nearly decade-long conflict. The sanctions target Syria's central bank, an aide to Assad and others.

Pope Francis decreed on Tuesday that Italian judge Rosario Livatino, who was killed by the Mafia in Sicily in 1990, was a martyr for the faith and could be beatified, or declared "Blessed".

The authorities have since brought in tight social mixing restrictions measures for London, southeast England and Wales while plans to ease curbs over Christmas across the nation have been dramatically scaled back or scrapped altogether.

Sweden's government is rushing to put forward a temporary pandemic bill that would give it powers to shut shops, private museums and by law limit the number of people in gatherings, news agency TT reported on Tuesday.

The United States on Monday imposed additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses, taking further action against China in the final month of U.S. President Donald Trump's term.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe submitted to voluntary questioning by Tokyo prosecutors on Monday in a case against his secretary over unreported political funds, public broadcaster NHK reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources.

British Airways, Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic said on Monday they will allow only passengers who test negative for the coronavirus to fly to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Australia's most populous state on Tuesday reported its lowest oneday rise in new COVID19 cases in nearly a week, fuelling optimism that contact tracing and social distancing were working to bring a dangerous new outbreak in Sydney under control.