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There is no need to close schools in France but new restrictive measures must be taken to slow the COVID19 infection rate and in particular the spread of the British variant, the government's top scientific adviser said on Wednesday.

An Ethiopian military aircraft crossed the SudaneseEthiopian border‮ ‬in a ‮"‬dangerous and unjustified escalation", Sudan's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Khan in a series of scathing tweets said that Pakistan's elites were involved in systematic corruption and money laundering.

Six workers were injured on Wednesday due to a chemical leak at LG Display Co's factory in South Korea, an official at a local fire station said.

The futuristic present and storied past of the Americas Cup will converge from Friday at Auckland, New Zealand when racing begins to find the latest winner of the famous sailing trophy first contested in 1851.

California's COVID19 surge is showing signs of leveling off after besieging hospitals, emergency services and morgues for weeks, the state's top health official said on Tuesday, although medical staffing continued to founder under the strain.

The extraordinary snub came days after the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, an unprecedented attack on American democracy that stunned many world leaders and U.S. allies.

The former Minneapolis policeman accused of killing a Black man by kneeling on his neck will stand trial alone, without three officers accused of aiding and abetting the alleged murder, a Minnesota judge ruled Tuesday, in part because of COVID19 concerns.

Germany plans to tighten controls on people entering the country as part of efforts to bring under control a surge in coronavirus cases which is leading to record numbers of deaths in the European Union's most populous country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday asked European Union countries for more help in procuring coronavirus vaccines after his government resisted turning to Russia for assistance.

U.S. President Donald Trump should leave office before Inauguration Day after the Capitol Hill riots, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said, adding that Berlin was confident of a good start to relations with his successor Joe Biden.

The European Union will pursue a more aggressive European space strategy to prevent being muscled out by U.S. and Chinese launcher technology, setting up an European alliance with industry this year, a EU official said on Tuesday.

A state security court in Jordan on Tuesday sentenced a Jordanian to death and jailed two others for their role in a stabbing rampage against foreign tourists in 2019, judicial sources said.

Authorities in China introduced new COVID19 curbs in areas surrounding Beijing on Tuesday, putting 4.9 million residents under lockdown as new infections raised worries about a second wave in a nation that has mostly contained the disease.

The British public must stick to tough rules to prevent the spread of COVID19 or the government could bring in even stricter measures, the policing minister said on Tuesday.

The news of Liebengood’s suicide comes four days after another officer, Brian Sicknick, died of injuries suffered when Trump supporters assaulted the legislative building, bringing to five the number dead from the riot.