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The governor of South Korea's most populous province called for mass testing for coronavirus on Wednesday, as daily new cases centred in the densely populated Seoul area held at levels unseen since the outbreaks began earlier this year.

Poland and Hungary could reach a compromise to allow the EU to pass budget, but another summit might be needed to work out the deal beyond the meeting of the bloc's leaders planned for this week, Poland's Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans' lastgasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of Presidentelect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground.

President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was recently hospitalized with COVID19, will attend a virtual hearing this week with Georgia lawmakers over Trump's flagging effort to overturn his election loss, a source said on Tuesday.

Uzbekistan brought home 25 women and 73 children on Tuesday from Syria where they had been staying at camps with other families of Islamic State fighters, the Tashkent government said.

Australia's competition regulator on Tuesday said Citigroup Inc and Deutsche Bank AG have been committed to the Australian Federal Court for trial on criminal cartel charges in the country's biggest white collar criminal case.

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID19, the illness caused by the virus.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to ensure that priority access for COVID19 vaccines procured by the U.S. government is given to the American people before assisting other nations, senior administration officials said on Mond...

The signing is slated to take place during a vaccine summit at the White House, with the hope that the order will allay fears that there will not be enough doses of the vaccine to go around after distribution begins.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry, however, said despite the shortcomings, there were no failings within government agencies that would have alerted them to the imminent attack by the white supremacist.

AstraZeneca has said it is considering a new global trial based on the half dose first regimen. The U.S. trial calls for testing the original regimen of two full doses.

The Trump administration on Monday made final its decision to leave limits for a deadly kind of air pollutant unchanged, overriding scientific findings that tougher standards could save tens of thousands of lives yearly.

Former Porto and Brazil striker Hulk has announced his departure from Chinese Super League side Shanghai SIPG following the club’s Asian Champions League elimination on Monday.

The summer of 2020 saw the United States' biggest protests for racial justice and civil rights in a generation.

New Zealand wrapped up a record innings and 134run victory over West Indies before lunch on the fourth day of the first test in Hamilton on Sunday after finally breaking a rearguard action from Jermaine Blackwood and Alzarri Joseph.

Seven contract workers were injured in a fire on Saturday at the Magellan Midstream Partners petroleum storage tank farm in Corpus Christi, Texas, a company spokesman said.