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A mobile hospital for injured wildlife such as koalas and kangaroos began a journey on Thursday to its new base in Byron Bay, on Australia's east coast.

A Turkish court handed down dozens of life sentences on Thursday for some of the nearly 500 defendants, including army commanders and pilots, accused of leading a 2016 coup attempt from an air base near the capital Ankara.

Presidentelect Joe Biden on Wednesday pleaded with Americans to take steps to remain safe over the Thanksgiving holiday as COVID19 cases soar, while President Donald Trump pardoned a former aide who had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

Arms control advocates are urging Joe Biden to extend the last U.S.Russian treaty limiting deployed strategic nuclear arms for five years, but some experts argue the U.S. presidentelect should go for a shorter period to maintain leverage over Moscow.

Israeli security forces fatally shot a Palestinian driver who tried to ram his car into them at a checkpoint on Jerusalem's outskirts on Wednesday after he raised suspicions by presenting apparently fake identification papers, police said.

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday that his government was considering limiting Christmas celebrations to six people in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

At least eight people were drowned after a boat carrying more than 35 migrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa and heading towards the Canary Islands capsized on Tuesday, emergency services said on Wednesday.

U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden will give a speech on Wednesday highlighting the challenges facing Americans as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches and the nation faces a surge in coronavirus infections and a wave of unpopular health restrictions.

The White House is considering rescinding entry bans for most nonU.S. citizens who recently were in Brazil, Britain, Ireland and 26 other European countries, five U.S. and airline officials told Reuters.

A Swiss woman who knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a Lugano department store on Tuesday was a known jihadist who fell in love with a militant online and tried in vain to meet him in Syria, police said on Wednesday.

Houthi authorities in Yemen have given longawaited approval for a United Nations plan to visit and assess a deteriorating oil tanker off Yemen's coast that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil into the Red Sea.

Swiss police have identified a Swiss woman who knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a Lugano department store on Tuesday as a known jihadist.

Oil rose for a fourth straight day on Wednesday, shrugging off an industry report showing a higherthanunexpected rise in U.S. crude stockpiles and extending a rally driven by hopes that a COVID19 vaccine will boost fuel demand.

Moscow, Nov 24 (AP) Russia released new results Tuesday claiming its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was highly effective, and promised it would cost less on international markets than vaccines by some of its Western competitors. According to the Russian...

The acting head of a big Russian state fur company floated the idea on Tuesday of vaccinating minks to prevent the spread of COVID19, after millions of infected minks were destroyed in Denmark and cases of the disease were found elsewhere.

A Tigrayan youth group stabbed, strangled, and bludgeoned to death at least 600 civilians with the collusion of local security forces during a massacre in the town of Mai Kadra, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday.