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More than eight months since the Asian Champions League was suspended due to the coronavirus, the eastern zone finally resumes on Sunday with teams from Japan, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and China.

President Donald Trump on Friday wrongly claimed full credit for Pfizer Inc.s announcement that its COVID19 vaccine was robustly successful, misrepresenting the extent of government support behind the companys efforts.

Twenty African migrants are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, while more bodies washed ashore on Libyan beaches on Friday from a shipwreck earlier this week.

Two Czech nationals caught at London's Heathrow airport bound for Dubai with 1.2 million pounds ($1.58 million) in their suitcases have been charged with money laundering, the British government said on Friday.

Officials are investigating a reported explosion at a medical center for U.S. veterans in West Haven, Connecticut, the state police said in a statement on Friday, without providing further details.

Cashstrapped Cuba is opening more foreign currency outlets selling food, personal hygiene products, electrical appliances and other items in short supply, irritating locals who are paid in pesos.

The coronavirus may be spreading faster now "at the household level" rather than in business settings, and a new U.S. push for changes in personal behavior may be needed to control it, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on Friday.

Serbia has introduced hefty fines for failure to wear face masks or maintain social distancing in public in efforts to rein in a major spike in coronavirus infections.

Under California law, the vacancy would be filled up by Governor Gavin Newsom for the remaining two-year term of the Senate seat. State media is reporting various names, including that of Khanna, that are being considered by Newsom to fill up the vacancy.

Clubs from Australia and New Zealand will stage a sixweek transTasman tournament next year following their respective domestic Super Rugby competitions.

Refusing to allow coronavirus to steal his Christmas, one Bavarian innkeeper has opened a drivethrough Christmas market, complete with artificial snow that falls as you come in.

Iran's intelligence ministry has arrested an Iranian ethnic Arab separatist leader suspected of involvement in an attack on a military parade in 2018 that killed dozens of people, Iranian state television reported on Thursday.

Two former senior U.S. intelligence officials Michael Morell and Avril Haines have emerged as leading contenders to serve as Director of National Intelligence or run the CIA in Presidentelect Joe Biden's administration, several current and former intell...

Belize voters have elected opposition leader Johnny Briceno to replace longtime Prime Minister Dean Barrow in a general election on Wednesday after the ruling party conceded defeat in the small Central American nation.

Nigeria expects to get more of its plundered Benin Bronzes back from Western museums and collectors as early as next year as global Black Lives Matter protests spur repatriation campaigns, a senior official said.

Unidentified assailants sprayed the embassy of Saudi Arabia in the Netherlands with gunfire before dawn on Thursday, police said. No one was hurt in the incident.