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New Zealand will ask international travelers from most countries to show negative COVID19 test results before boarding flights to the country as new contagious variants of COVID19 spread across globally.

The Trump administration on Monday redesignated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, in a move that hits the country with new sanctions shortly before Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office.

The U.S. National Park Service said on Monday it has closed the Washington Monument through Jan. 24 due to continuing threats, from groups involved in last week's proTrump riot at the U.S. Capitol, to disrupt Presidentelect Joe Biden's Jan. 20 inauguratio...

Malaysia's Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Monday announced a nationwide travel ban and a 14day lockdown in the capital and five states, as the country grapples with a surge in coronavirus cases that threaten to overload its healthcare system.

Residents of a small town in South Australia state were warned to seek shelter on Monday as firefighters were called in to battle a fastmoving grassfire.

A new coronavirus variant was detected in four travellers from Brazil, Japan's Health Ministry said on Sunday, marking an advance in changes to the pandemic virus.

"Bye bye family. We're heading home for now," Ratih Windania posted on Instagram from Jakarta's airport with pictures of three laughing children and two emojis blowing kisses.

Indonesia detected signals on Sunday that could come from a flight recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea after taking off from the capital Jakarta, as human body parts and suspected pieces of the plane were retrieved.

Indonesian ships with rescue divers and equipment to detect signals from a flight recorder resumed the search on Sunday for a Sriwijaya Air jet believed to have crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff from the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

Pope Francis said on Saturday he planned to have a COVID19 vaccination as early as next week and urged everyone to get a shot, to protect not only their own lives but those of everyone else.

Communistrun Cuba said late on Friday it had signed an accord with Iran to transfer the technology for its most advanced coronavirus vaccine candidate and carry out laststage clinical trials in humans of the shot in the Islamic Republic.

The accusation stems from a video he filmed on the day that Trump loyalists stormed a session of Congress, interrupting the official certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.

Presidentelect Joe Biden will aim to release every available dose of coronavirus vaccine when he takes office, a departure from Trump administration strategy of holding back doses to make sure second doses are available, CNN reported on Thursday.

Russia and China are opposed to a candidate from Fiji seen as a staunch human rights defender to lead the top U.N. rights body, diplomats and observers say, creating a deadlock just as the United States may seek to rejoin the forum it quit in 2018.

Over 1.1 million people had COVID19 last week, equivalent to 1 in 50 people in the nation, the UK's Office for National Statistics said on Friday, rising to 1 in 30 people in the capital London as a contagious variant spreads.

Denmark is developing a digital "vaccine passport" for people who have received a COVID19 vaccine, a move that may enable them to travel to countries where such documentation is required during the pandemic.