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President Joe Biden says China is in for extreme competition from the U.S. under his administration, but that the new relationship he wants to forge need not be one of conflict.

Tens of thousands of people marched for a second day in Myanmar’s biggest city on Sunday and thousands more across the country to protest against the military junta's coup and detention of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week.

The Biden administration said on Saturday it was immediately suspending Trumpera asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, part of a bid to undo his Republican predecessor's hardline immigration policies.

Qatar's Al Jazeera -- which had run a daily campaign calling for his liberation -- had repeatedly said he was being held "without formal charges nor trial".

Myanmar's junta extended a social media blockade to Twitter and Instagram on Saturday in the face of a growing protest movement against the coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and halted a transition to democracy.

With EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Moscow for a rare visit, Russia said it had declared diplomats from Poland, Germany and Sweden persona non grata for participating in "illegal protests" on January 23.

Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard was denied bail on Friday in a Winnipeg, Manitoba courtroom, after spending nearly two months in jail on a U.S. extradition request.

Scottish nationalists are pushing for an independence referendum to be held after this May's Scottish parliament election, but British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said such votes should happen only once in a generation.

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.

The Biden administration must remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, the EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Friday during a visit to Moscow.

A U.S. warship sailed near the Chinesecontrolled Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea on Friday in a freedom of navigation operation, the U.S. Navy said, the first such mission under President Joe Biden's new administration.

President Joe Biden has formally stopped the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Germany that was ordered last year by the Trump administration but had never actually begun.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is claiming he's unfamiliar with an extremist conspiracy theory whose adherents joined the violent assault on Congress and hunted for his members as well as Democrats. He says hes not even learned how to pronounce it...

Denied their chance to take their parliament seats after a coup in Myanmar this week, a group of lawmakers held their own house session on Thursday in a show of defiance towards the return of military rule.

Somalia is unlikely to hold its indirect election for a new president on Monday as planned, provincial officials say, despite lastminute talks between President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and his opponents to arrange the vote.

An Iranian diplomat accused of planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled opposition group was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday in the first trial of an Iranian official for suspected terrorism in the European Union since Iran's 1979 revolution.