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The ten known survivors trapped since a deadly Jan. 10 gold mine explosion in northern China have been using laser pointers and loudspeakers to try to find their missing colleagues, state media reported on Friday.

New Zealand's central bank said on Friday that it will postpone publication of most of its statistical data releases for a number of weeks while it investigates a cyber attack that led to a serious breach of its data systems.

Hong Kong will place tens of thousands of its residents in a lockdown to contain a new outbreak of the coronavirus, the first such measure the Chineseruled city has taken since the pandemic began, a local newspaper reported on Friday.

U.S. President Joe Biden will seek a fiveyear extension to the New START arms control treaty with Russia, the White House said on Thursday, in one of the first major foreign policy decisions of the new administration ahead of the treaty's expiration in ea...

The French government is now recommending that people wear surgical masks in public because they offer better protection from COVID19 transmission than fabric face coverings, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Thursday.

A Nigerian court threw out two blasphemy convictions on Thursday that had caused an international outcry, freeing a teenager from a 10year prison sentence and ordering a new trial for a man sentenced to death.

Norway anticipates reduced supply of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine until the second week of February, but has an emergency stockpile and will continue administering doses as planned, the government's public health body said.

Spain's public prosecutor is investigating more than 200 cases of potential criminal mishandling of the COVID19 pandemic at nursing homes, where the virus spread almost unchecked during the devastating first wave.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday French people had got into the habit of criticising anyone who takes the initiative and tries to move the country forward.

Italian police arrested 50 people on Thursday and placed a prominent centrist politician under investigation in a crackdown on the 'Ndrangheta mafia that prosecutors say lays bare its efforts to launder cash and buy influence.

A regional election in Catalonia, initially set for next month, remains up in the air after a court took a preliminary decision Thursday against a 3month delay ordered by the northeastern Spanish regions government due to the surge of COVID19.

World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunned.

There is far more scope for political agreement between Germany and the United States after Biden's inauguration, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.

Mass COVID19 testing of thousands of people in the Swiss resort of St Moritz where luxury hotels were placed under quarantine found 53 coronavirus infections, including 31 cases of a fastspreading variant, local officials said on Thursday.

From Indira Gandhi in India, to New Zealand’s incumbent prime minister Jacinda Ardern, the world has seen several powerful women leading their countries.

Britain is refusing to give full diplomatic status to the European Union's ambassador in London, causing a row between the recently divorced parties, the BBC reported on Thursday.