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The World Health Organization (WHO) and Russian health authorities are discussing the process for possible WHO prequalification for its newly approved COVID19 vaccine, a WHO spokesman said on Tuesday.

The speed at which Russia is moving to roll out the vaccine has prompted some international scientists to question whether Moscow is putting national prestige before solid science and safety.

Dutch police have dismantled what they describe as the biggest cocaine laboratory ever discovered in the Netherlands hidden at a former horse riding school and arrested a total of 17 people from Colombia, Turkey and the Netherlands.

In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it.

Authorities in China have found the novel coronavirus on the packaging of imported frozen seafood that arrived from the port city of Dalian, which recently battled a surge of cases, a local government said on Tuesday.

Two Iranians have been sentenced to 10year prison terms on charges of spying for Israel, Germany and Britain, the website of the country's judiciary reported on Tuesday.

Mauritius has declared a state of emergency and former colonial ruler France has sent aid in what environmentalists said could be a major ecological crisis.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chanocha said on Tuesday he is concerned about a growing student protest movement after another student group issued an unusually frank 10point call for reform of the monarchy.

Long lines of people bought up copies of the Apple Daily paper at Hong Kong newsstands Tuesday to support a free press in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.

Riverdale Nursing Home in the Bronx appears, on paper, to have escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with an official state count of just four deaths in its 146bed facility.

Nearly 50 dolphins were stranded on a beach on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, over the weekend and needed to be rescued by dozens of volunteers, officials said.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has interviewed the finalists to be his running mate and his campaign is readying to announce his choice as soon as this week, a person familiar with the process told Reuters.

The central Chinese city's recovery after a 76-day lockdown was lifted in April has brought life back onto its streets.

The U.S. Secret Service abruptly escorted President Donald Trump out of the White House press room in the middle of a briefing on Monday because of a shooting outside the White House.

The largest U.S. auto union and onetime Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders are clashing ahead of what is billed as this month's planned celebration of party unity to defeat President Donald Trump in the November elections.

The U.N. envoy for GuineaBissau said Monday the political crisis and the parliamentary paralysis following elections this year have left the impoverished West African nation in a fragile state as the United Nations prepares to end its peacebuilding missio...