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The tests will use antibodies taken from recovered patients, antibodies raised by vaccines, and synthetic lab-made antibodies, and would take a few weeks to carry out.

Outgoing Attorney General William Barr said he saw no reason to appoint a special counsel on potential election fraud or the tax investigation into the son of Presidentelect Joe Biden.

Governments across Europe are trying to navigate between avoiding the spread of the coronavirus over the Christmas holiday season and allowing people to celebrate with family and friends.

The European Medicines Agency said the "historic" step paved the way for vaccinations to finally start within days across the 27-nation EU where cases of the disease are surging.

The Vatican told Roman Catholics on Monday that it was morally acceptable to use COVID19 vaccines even if their production employed cell lines drawn from tissues of aborted foetuses.

Taiwan's navy and air force were deployed on Sunday as a Chinese aircraft carrier group led by the country's newest carrier, the Shandong, sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, the day after a U.S. warship transited the same waterway.

Alarm bells were ringing across Europe -- which last week became the first region in the world to pass 500,000 deaths from Covid-19 since the pandemic broke out a year ago -- after it appeared that a new, even more infectious strain of the virus was ragin...

Australia's most populous city Sydney became further isolated from the rest of the country on Sunday after states closed borders and imposed quarantine measures on its residents as a coronavirus cluster in the city grew to around 70.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced Friday afternoon it has suspended three fraternities that have been linked to a drug trafficking ring that federal prosecutors say funneled large amounts of drugs into three college campuses.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is blasting attacks on his wife and daughters by people who want him to overturn Joe Bidens victory in Georgia and says conspiracy theories about the election need to stop.

All fingers are pointing to Russia as the source of the worstever hack of U.S. government agencies. But President Donald Trump, long wary of blaming Moscow for cyberattacks, has so far been silent.

Pigs will fly before we see an Olympics without doping. Fantastic as that sounds, its practically a guarantee.

Here's what's happening Thursday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:

One of Ukraine's best known veteran politicians, Gennady Kernes, died in Germany in the early hours of Thursday from complications caused by the coronavirus, local authorities and members of his family said.

The Netherlands will not be among the first EU countries ready to start with COVID19 vaccinations in December, but will begin inoculation on Jan 8, health minister Hugo de Jonge said on Thursday.

Some commentators took the comments as a rebuke of Sweden's controversial coronavirus strategy, which has most relied on non-coercive measures.