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Some EU nations are receiving fewer than expected doses of coronavirus vaccines as U.S. pharmaceutical firm Pfizer slows shipments, while Turkey and China race ahead with inoculations to stem surging worldwide infections.

The $1.9 trillion rescue plan unveiled by Presidentelect Joe Biden offers the chance to sculpt the U.S. economy toward the Democrats liking: a $15 minimum wage, aid to poor families and federal dollars going to public schools.

As rioters overpowered Capitol police, Sicknick was pepper-sprayed and hit in the head, his father told Reuters last week. Ambulance crews resuscitated him twice as he was rushed to a nearby Washington hospital. Sicknick died the next day.

Canada said on Friday that Pfizer's decision to temporarily cut shipments of some COVID19 vaccines was unfortunate but should not hit its inoculation program.

"Giggling bread" and "joyfully dancing salad" aren't the usual dishes on a menu in Thailand, but one eatery is hoping its cannabisinfused cuisine can lure foreign tourists and take the taboo out of the recently legalised leaf.

A former Arkansas health official is sounding alarms about the pace of coronavirus vaccines being administered to residents of longterm care facilities under a U.S. plan that puts major pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens in charge of many of the shots.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been discharged from the hospital in Monaco where he had been admitted due to heart problems, a source close to the media magnate told Reuters on Friday.

China reported the highest number of daily COVID19 cases in more than 10 months, official data showed on Friday, due to a severe outbreak in the northeast that has put more than 28 million people under lockdown.

As authorities begin to charge the rioters in the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, court documents paint a picture of a diverse mob that included both citizens with mainstream careers, police officers, a flower shop owner, a state lawmaker, military vete...

Germany recorded a new record number of deaths from the coronavirus on Thursday, prompting calls for an even tighter lockdown after the country emerged relatively unscathed in 2020.

Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) said on Thursday it blocked the website for Hong Kong Chronicles in compliance with the city's national security law.

US President Donald Trump urged for calm as security agencies reported they have received inputs of possible armed violence by his supporters here and across the country.

In light of Trump being impeached, here’s a look at what the Republicans who voted against Trump said.

Three men convicted of terrorism offences, including the brother of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber and an Iraqi who tried to blow up a London underground train, have been charged with attacking a prison officer, police said on Wednesday.

More than 80 civilians were killed in an attack on Tuesday in the BenishangulGumuz region on Ethiopia's border with Sudan, the stateappointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said on Wednesday.

Switzerland announced tighter measures on Wednesday to tackle new variants of the COVID19 virus spreading across the country but fell short of implementing the full lockdown imposed by neighbouring countries to tackle the pandemic.