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Yemens embattled president, in exile in Saudi Arabia, announced a Cabinet reshuffle on Friday in a major step toward closing a dangerous rift between his internationally recognized government and southern separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates.

A former governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco, Aristoteles Sandoval, was shot dead in the back in the bathroom of a restaurant in the popular beach getaway of Puerto Vallarta, local authorities said on Friday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday he hoped that England would not need to go into a third lockdown after Christmas and follow Wales and Northern Ireland in imposing the measure to stop the growing spread of COVID19.

Interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian confirmed the blast but said 15 people were killed.

A powerful cyclone pounded Fiji, killing two people, including a threemonth old baby, and leaving a trail of destruction across the Pacific Island nation, authorities said on Friday.

Several states say they have been told to expect far fewer doses of the PfizerBioNTech COVID19 vaccine in its second week of distribution, prompting worries about potential delays in shots for health care workers and longterm care residents.

The top U.S. general met Taliban representatives this week in Qatar, urging them to reduce the level of violence and move more swiftly towards a political solution in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

Heres whats happening Thursday in Election 2020 and President-elect Joe Biden's transition.

The top U.S. general held unannounced talks with Taliban peace negotiators in the Persian Gulf to urge a reduction in violence across Afghanistan, even as senior American officials in Kabul warned that steppedup Taliban attacks endanger the militant group...

Turkey will not turn back on its purchase of Russian S400 missile defence systems and will take reciprocal steps after evaluating U.S. sanctions imposed over the acquisition, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday.

When Abdullah boarded an inflatable boat crammed with fellow migrants in February he thought he would finally reach Europe after braving the dangers of a Sahara crossing and Libya's civil war.

Australia on Thursday scrambled to trace the source of new COVID19 cases after a small cluster was detected in the largest city of Sydney, with authorities urging residents to get tested if they had any flulike symptoms.

Biden has said he would get the injection in a public setting to instill confidence in its safety.

Taiwan's government on Wednesday extended a ban on Indonesian workers coming to the island for an indefinite period citing a surge in the number of infected people arriving and lack of cooperation from Indonesia's government in verifying documents.

The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for abducting hundreds of boys from a boarding school in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina state, according to an audio recording released on Tuesday.

Moderna Inc's COVID19 vaccine appeared set for regulatory authorization this week after U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff endorsed it as safe and effective in documents released Tuesday.