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The FBI recently opened a criminal investigation into claims that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton abused his office to benefit a wealthy donor.

The Ethiopian government rebuffed an African effort to mediate on Saturday, saying its troops had seized another town in their march towards the rebelheld capital of northern Tigray region.

Twitter Inc will transfer control of the @POTUS account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan. 20, the company said.

President Donald Trump said Saturday his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is doing very well in quarantine after becoming infected with the coronavirus.

A travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore, due to launch on Sunday, will be postponed for two weeks, Hong Kong's Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development said on Saturday as the city reported a rise in daily coronavirus cases.

Ethiopia denied on Saturday that talks on the growing conflict in its northern Tigray region were imminent, just hours after three African former presidents were named to help mediate the twoweekold crisis.

Joe Biden's election as U.S. President could help unfreeze peace talks between Colombia's biggest active rebel group, the Marxist National Liberation Army (ELN), and the Colombian government, ELN leader Pablo Beltran told Reuters on Friday.

A suspect was at large after "multiple" people were wounded in an "active shooter incident" at a suburban shopping mall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Friday, the local mayor said.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's outside advisers will meet on Dec. 10 to discuss whether to authorize the COVID19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech for emergency use, the agency said on Friday.

The Spanish government promised on Friday to set up camps and shelters for 7,000 people in the Canary Islands, to manage a surge in migrant arrivals that has overwhelmed local authorities and left thousands sleeping in the open.

U.S. health authorities braced for further increases in COVID19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths on Friday, capping a week in which the spread of the novel coronavirus accelerated ahead of next week's Thanksgiving holiday.

Russia has sent troops to reinforce its border guards in Armenia and secure a peace settlement with Azerbaijan over NagornoKarabakh, the Federal Security Service head said on Friday.

U.N. agencies are planning for the possible arrival of 200,000 refugees in Sudan fleeing violence in Ethiopia over a sixmonth period, a U.N. refugee agency official said on Friday.

Thousands of people silently raised their arms in the air, held flowers aloft and broke into chants outside a church in Minsk on Friday at the funeral of a Belarusian protester.

The cabinetlevel head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, will visit Taiwan, the island's premier said on Friday, in what will be the third visit by a senior U.S. official since August, drawing anger from Beijing.

Mexico, the most populous country in the Spanishspeaking world, is on the brink of recording 100,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths, after passing one million infections several days ago.