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Vietnam health ministry to buy Russian COVID-19 vaccine - state media
Vietnam's health ministry has registered to buy a Russian COVID19 vaccine, state television reported on Wednesday, as the Southeast Asian country fights a new outbreak of the coronavirus following months of no local cases.
Trump says he would not veto legislation that included post office funding
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would not veto coronavirus legislation that included funding for the U.S. Postal Service.
Pakistani Army Rejects Rumours of Rift With Saudi Arabia
Army spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar addressed the media in Rawalpindi where he was asked about a media report that General Bajwa was going to Riyadh to fix some irritants in bilateral ties.
Mexico, with over 500,000 coronavirus cases, to help with vaccine
Mexico, having hit over half a million official coronavirus cases and 55,000 deaths as the pandemic rages across Latin America, will help produce a vaccine that could be distributed in the region next year, authorities said on Thursday.
Bolivia confirms presidential election for October 18 despite calls for earlier date
Bolivia's caretaker government on Thursday enacted a law that mandates a delayed presidential election will be held on Oct. 18 as scheduled, despite opposition calls for it to be moved earlier.
'We don't need war': Belarus leadership says sorry in bid to quell protests
An ally of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko issued a rare public apology on Thursday in a bid to quell nationwide street protests that pose the biggest challenge to the strongman leader's 26year rule.
'Massive poisonous shock': Scientists fear lasting impact from Mauritius oil spill
Some corals have lived for centuries at the fringes of Mauritius. Now smothered for days in heavy fuel oil spilled from a wrecked Japanese tanker nearby, parts of those reefs may be in trouble.
Jordan says Israel-UAE deal should prod Israel to accept Palestinian state
Jordan said that the deal announced on Thursday between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could push forward stalled peace negotiations if it succeeds in prodding Israel to accept a Palestinian state on land that Israel had occupied in the 1967 ArabIsra...
Beirut blast halts American-Lebanese woman's final journey home
Rami Basbous was on the phone with his uncle in Beirut on August 4, making arrangements to return his mother's remains from the United States to her birthplace, when he heard the blast that reduced large parts of the Lebanese capital to rubble.
Iran news agency tied to Revolutionary Guards calls UAE-Israel deal 'shameful'
Iran's Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated to the country's elite Revolutionary Guards, said Thursday's deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on normalising ties was "shameful".
In 'Boys State,' American politics in a teenage microcosm
Even mock elections require walltowall coverage, so when Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine set out to document Texas Boys State, the weeklong summer camp of civics simulation run by the American Legion since 1935, they hired seven cinematographers to stay clo...
Israel's Netanyahu hails deal with UAE as 'historic'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday a U.S.brokered deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates represented a "historic day" for his country.
Novavax says SK bioscience to supply antigen for coronavirus vaccine
Novavax Inc said on Thursday South Korea's SK bioscience would manufacture a component of the U.S. drug developer's experimental coronavirus vaccine in a bid to boost its supply.
Trump holds up coronavirus aid to block Democrats' bid for election funding
Funding for the U.S. Postal Service and to shore up election infrastructure became a major sticking point in congressional talks on coronavirus relief, as President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to block any money to facilitate mailin voting.
Pakistan Summons Senior Indian Diplomat Over 'Ceasefire Violations'
The Pakistan Foreign Office said in a statement that due to the "indiscriminate and unprovoked firing" in Jandrot Sector of the LoC on Wednesday, Shakeela Bibi, 40, and 12-year-old Ayesha Kausar of village Fanjot sustained serious injuries.
Seven African countries to start testing for COVID-19 antibodies
Seven African countries will start administering coronavirus antibody tests from next week, a regional body said on Thursday, as part of efforts to understand the extent of the outbreak on the continent.