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The perception that the Jan. 6 insurrection was a success could embolden domestic extremists motivated by anti-government, racial and partisan grievances, spurring them to further violence.

Bangladesh will step up wheat purchases from Ukraine to make up for any shortfall in supplies from Russia which has announced plans to impose a higher export tax on the grain from March 1, a senior Dhakabased government official told Reuters.

Azerbaijan will begin vaccinating citizens against COVID19 on Monday, using a batch of 4 million doses from China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd, the health ministry said on Saturday.

Ahead of his inauguration on January 20, Joe Biden on Friday held a briefing with his team on addressing the major health crisis that has engulfed the nation for nearly a year now.

China's recent COVID19 outbreaks in the northeast have come from travelers entering the country or contaminated frozen food imports, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Saturday.

Michael White's longanticipated trip to Iran was already a disappointment. The love interest he'd gone to visit had stopped seeing him and he'd idled away hours in his hotel room by himself.

The couple have never been shy about their combined love of power. When they got engaged, Ivanka Trump said in an interview that she knew Kushner was the one when she found his ambition matched hers.

Scattered vaccine shortages cropped up on the frontlines of the U.S. battle against the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, prompting at least one large New York healthcare system to cancel a slew of appointments of people hoping to be inoculated.

The nation's capital on Friday continued to boost security by shutting down access to iconic landmarks and erecting vehicle checkpoints at a security perimeter surrounding central Washington ahead of PresidentElect Joe Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20.

Pfizer's reduction of its COVID19 vaccine shipments comes as Canada battles a surge in cases, though the country's procurement minister said on Friday the overall goal of getting most people inoculated by the end of September stands.

The Latest on President Donald Trump's impeachment and the fallout from the Jan. 6 attack of the Capitol by proTrump loyalists (all times local):

The United States plans to announce additional Iran sanctions on Friday related to conventional arms and to the metals industry, sources familiar with the matter said.

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he hoped positive steps will be taken on Turkey's role in the F35 jet programme once U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office, describing Ankara's exclusion for purchasing Russian defences as a "serious wrong".

Fiji, the favourite of Western nations, won the presidency of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday, beating Bahrain and Uzbekistan in a secret ballot that resolved a tense deadlock over the selection.

China's Shandong provincial authorities have sacked two top officials in the city of Qixia following Sunday's explosion at a gold mine in the area that left 22 workers missing, state media reported on Friday.

Many European Union nations say they are receiving lowerthanexpected supplies of COVID19 vaccines and complain in internal meetings of uncertainty over future deliveries, EU officials told Reuters, as distribution proceeds unevenly among EU states.