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Three weeks before Myanmar's military commander took power in a coup, he met the Chinese government's top diplomat in an exchange that pointed to potential support as Myanmar faces the prospect of renewed Western sanctions.

The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to put off arguments over two controversial Trump administration policies that have been challenged in court now that President Joe Biden has taken steps to unwind them.

Britain needs to contain the spread of the South African variant of the coronavirus by identifying new cases through mass testing in areas where cases unconnected with travel have emerged, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday.

Libyans watching a peace process nearing a critical phase this week in Switzerland need only try driving from one side of their country to the other to understand the obstacles to diplomacy.

Rents have tumbled in Madrid and Barcelona because of the coronavirus pandemic, property portal Idealista said on Monday, a stark contrast to oncesaturated rental markets in which landlords could expect everhigher returns.

Every May 8 for the last four years and, he vows, every one going forward freestyle skier Colby Stevenson could be found in a similar setting: hanging out with friends, usually on top of a mountain somewhere.

Supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took to the streets in Siberia and the Russian Far East on Sunday for a second straight weekend despite a sweeping crackdown on his allies and warnings from the police.

Tourism to Costa Rica will likely stagnate this year at the sharply reduced levels of 2020 because of the COVID19 pandemic, weighing on the economy of the Central American country, a top government official said on Saturday.

Hong Kong Secretary of Justice Teresa Cheng reiterated on Saturday that Britain had no rights over the city under the joint declaration that laid the blueprint for how the city would be ruled after its 1997 reunification with China.

Those results compare to the high bar set by two authorized vaccines from Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc, which were around 95% effective in preventing symptomatic illness in pivotal trials when given in two doses.

A University of Michigan graduate student, Randeep Hothi claimed that the business magnate triggered an online hate campaign against him in the complaint he filed in August in Alameda County Superior Court.

Almost 43,000 people have succumbed to Covid-19 in New York, more than any other state in the US.

Suspected coronavirus patients made to take the anal swab tests have complained of inconvenience, since it is a much more invasive procedure than the usual nasal or throat swab.

Makers of COVID-19 vaccines need everything to go right as they scale up production to hundreds of millions of doses and any little hiccup could cause a delay. Some of their ingredients have never before been produced at the sheer volume needed.

The move comes a week after the social media giant confirmed it would extend a ban on Trump's channel -- which has just under three million subscribers -- joining other social media platforms in banning his accounts following the deadly January 6 Capitol...

The Biden administration on Sunday installed new heads of three federally funded international broadcasters after abruptly firing Donald Trumpappointees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.