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Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah on Tuesday with a menorahlighting ceremony at Jerusalem's Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million other Jews killed by the Nazis.

Oklahomas Pardon and Parole Board voted 41 on Tuesday to reject clemency for a man convicted of killing two Del City hotel workers in 2001, with two members noting the particularly heinous nature of the killings.

Moderna did not reply to Reuters' request for comment on the interview and on when it expects to have data on the effectiveness of its vaccine against Omicron, which the World Health Organization (WHO) says carries a "very high" risk of infection surges.

The United Nations expressed concerns Monday over the forced closure of a Libya appeals court that is meant to decide whether the son of the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi can run for president.

A pizza delivery driver died after a porch collapsed while he was making a delivery in eastern Indiana, police said.

The French government will send police reinforcements, including an elite SWAT team, and extend a curfew in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe after two weeks of unrest, the overseas territories minister said on Monday.

Health officials in Australia's most populous state have begun urgent testing after two people who arrived on a flight from southern Africa overnight tested positive to the coronavirus, raising concerns that a newly detected, highly infectious strain has...

A shooting in a Tennessee apartment has left three people dead and four others wounded, police said.

Dutch health authorities said on Saturday they had detected 61 COVID19 cases among people who flew from South Africa on Friday and believe at least some infections are of the new omicron variant.

Novavax Inc's Covid-19 shot contains an actual version of the virus' spike protein that cannot cause disease but can trigger the immune system.

The EU and Britain are already tightening border controls as researchers look into whether the new mutation is vaccine-resistant.

Singapore citizens and foreigners holding permanent resident status in the city-state of 5.5 million arriving from those countries can still enter, but will have to undergo a 10-day quarantine.

As infections reach a record high and intensive care units fill up, the health crisis is posing an immediate challenge to the new coalition government. 

A lawsuit filed by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school in Indianapolis for being in a samesex marriage can proceed, a state appeals court ruled.

Bundled from the cold in black woolly hats and puffy coats, some in red life jackets, the migrants hauled the rubber dinghy on their shoulders and heads under a steely November sky, over the dunes towards the beach.

For 50 years, the fixed narrative had the Beatles' Let it Be recording session as a miserable experience with a band where members were sick of each other, sick of their work and in the process of breaking up.