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Bulgaria on Friday announced plans to vaccinate people against the coronavirus free of charge once it has procured vaccine doses, and said it would start with doctors, nurses, dentists and pharmacists.

Rohingya refugees must be able to make free and informed decisions about relocating to Bangladesh's Bhashan Char island, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday as naval vessels began carrying some 1,600 towards the remote site.

An Australian court on Friday dismissed eight out of 87 contempt of court charges against media on their reporting of exVatican treasurer George Pell's 2018 conviction for child sex assault.

IBM and U.S. officials are sounding the alarm over hackers targeting companies critical to the distribution of COVID19 vaccines.

Two firefighters were injured and residents of a rustic Southern California canyon were driven from their homes after a blaze broke out overnight at a singlefamily home and tore across some 4,000 acres of dry brush and wooded hillsides.

U.S. appeals court judges appeared skeptical on Thursday of voiding a 2007 deal that shielded Jeffrey Epstein from child sex charges that one of his alleged victims says prevents her from talking to prosecutors about possible coconspirators.

There is no guarantee that Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID19 vaccine will be distributed in English care homes but the health service and regulator are working to make it possible, deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan VanTam said on Thursday.

President Donald Trump's push to crack down on illegal immigration and overhaul the legal immigration system was at the heart of the Republican's 2016 campaign and remained at the forefront of his White House agenda.

The United Arab Emirates' resistance at OPEC meetings to extend deep supply cuts into 2021 is the start of a more assertive policy stance that could make it harder for the group's defacto leader, Saudi Arabia, to balance global oil supply.

England's National Health Service (NHS) is looking at ways to deploy Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID19 vaccine in care homes with the medical regulator, but there is no guarantee that it will happen, deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan VanTam said.

In normal times the Hotel Avenir Montmartre is a tourist magnet with its views of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre Coeur church, but COVID19 has scared off the usual guests. Instead, the hotel has opened its doors to the homeless.

Oil prices fell on Thursday as producers including Saudi Arabia and Russia locked horns over the need to extend record production cuts set in place during the first wave of the COVID19 pandemic.

Nearly half a million South Korean students took university entrance exams on Thursday, with COVID19 students sitting in hospital and others separated by transparent screens.

Trump said the judicial scrutiny of the election is about restoring faith and confidence in American elections.

Six people were missing in Haines, Alaska, on Wednesday after record rains triggered landslides that destroyed four homes in the mountainous southeast, state troopers said.

Nearly half a million South Korean students nervously began a hypercompetitive university entrance exam on Thursday, with COVID19 students taking the exam in hospital and others separated by transparent barriers.