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For over six years, 38yearold Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, just ten minutes walk from his house.

Israel and Morocco agreed on Thursday to normalize relations in a deal brokered with U.S. help, making Morocco the fourth Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past four months.

The Trump administration finalized a regulation on Thursday that greatly restricts access to asylum in the United States, part of a lastminute immigration crackdown that incoming Presidentelect Joe Biden will likely try to reverse.

Italian prosecutors said on Thursday they planned to charge four senior members of Egypt's security services over their alleged role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016.

Romania's president will start discussions on Monday on forming a new government, his office said, with a centristled coalition seen as the most likely outcome a week after inconclusive elections.

Under President Donald Trump, the United States has significantly boosted military aid to Taiwan and increased engagement with the island. With Joe Biden having beaten Trump in last month's presidential election, the Taiwanese are anxiously waiting to see...

South Korea authorities scrambled on Thursday to build hospital beds in shipping containers to ease strains on medical facilities stretched by the latest coronavirus wave, which shows little sign of abating with 682 new cases.

In Canada, enough doses have been purchased to immunise citizens five times over if all the leading vaccines are approved, the group said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused U.S. universities of caving to Chinese pressure to blunt or bar criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. The attack, which included identifying two university administrators by name, comes as the Trump...

Brazil will "quite likely" begin vaccinations to stem the coronavirus pandemic in January or February, Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Wednesday, outlining what would be the most aggressive vaccination timeline proposed by a federal health offici...

Oman will exempt nationals of 103 counties from needing an entry visa for a stay of up to 10 days, police said on Wednesday, in a move to support tourism and shore up its struggling economy.

The situation in Ethiopia is "worrying and volatile" as fighting in the Tigray region continues amid reports of ethnic profiling of Tigrayans including in Addis Ababa, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday.

Chancellor Angela Merkel threw her weight behind calls for a fuller lockdown in Germany that would include closing shops after Christmas, telling legislators that vaccines alone would not majorly alter the pandemic's course in the first quarter.

France will delay relaxing some COVID19 lockdown restrictions if necessary to stave off a third wave of infections, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday.

Jimmy Spithill has signed on as CEO and helmsman of the U.S. team in SailGP, giving the global league another former Americas Cup champion in its stable of stars.

Turkey urged the European Union on Tuesday to use "common sense" to end a row over natural gas exploration that has fanned territorial disputes in the eastern Mediterranean and drawn a threat of sanctions from EU leaders.