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Malaysia is in talks to buy 6.4 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine and wants to increase its purchases from U.S. drugmaker PfizerBioNTech, as the country looks to beef up its arsenal against the pandemic.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has decided to allow Minsk's exiled Catholic archbishop to return home after a personal appeal from Pope Francis, the Vatican's embassy in Minsk said on Tuesday.

The U.S. government does not intend to impose COVID19 screenings for passengers traveling from Britain after the emergence of a highly infectious new coronavirus variant there, people briefed on the decision said.

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Marcelo Crivella was arrested on Tuesday, nine days before the end of his term, for alleged involvement in a corruption scheme at city hall, police and prosecutors said.

The ban caused Britain to bring forward Operation Stack, the contingency plan drawn up to deal with anticipated freight tailbacks on roads around Dover in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

A highranking New York City education official and former Wisconsin principal accused of swapping explicit sexual images with a 15yearold boy has been to five years in prison.

Burnleys strike partnership of Ashley Barnes and Chris Wood scored in a 21 win over Wolverhampton that lifted the team out of the English Premier League relegation zone on Monday.

Maureen Brennan will spend Christmas with her daughter at their Nashua, New Hampshire, home after declining invitations from other relatives to celebrate with them. Michael Smith will mark the holidays alone in Elko, Nevada, unwilling to risk being infect...

In the tiny kitchen of a Hong Kong highrise apartment, the air was heavy with the aromas of a mother making her daughter's favorite childhood dishes.

Thailand plans to test more than 10,000 people after a record daily surge in coronavirus cases to over 500, most of which were among migrant workers linked to a shrimp market near the capital, an official said on Sunday.

The quake in the region of Qotur in Iran’s West Azerbaijan struck at a shallow depth of 5 km (3 miles), IRNA said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday said it was monitoring reports of allergic reactions to the COVID19 vaccination and made recommendations on how people with histories of allergies should proceed.

Asad Umar, the minister for planning development and special initiatives, tweeted on Friday night: "Just got my covid test result and it is positive. Will be isolating at home.

At least 10 people were killed on Friday in a town in Somalia's semi autonomous state of Galmudug when a suicide bomber detonated a device at a rally due to be addressed by the country's prime minister, a security official said.

Its going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believed to be Russian out of the U.S. government networks they have been quietly rifling through since as far back as March in Washingtons worst cyberespionage failure on record.

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