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The first shipments of COVID19 vaccine left on trucks and planes early on Sunday, kicking off a historic effort to stop a surging pandemic that is claiming more than 2,400 lives a day in the United States.

More than three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster forced thousands to evacuate, there is an influx of visitors to the area that has spurred officials to seek official status from UNESCO.

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel on Saturday recommended the nation's first COVID19 vaccine, helping clear the way for public health authorities to begin the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history.

Welsh referee Nigel Owens announced his retirement from international rugby on Friday after 100 tests.

Oman welcomed Morocco's announcement that it was establishing diplomatic ties with Israel and hoped the move would strengthen efforts towards a lasting and just peace in the Middle East, its foreign ministry said on Friday.

While regulatory processes are underway, few Asian countries expect to receive significant amounts of the vaccines initially.

The results confirmed that receiving the vaccine reduced the risk of developing Covid-19 by 95 percent compared to not receiving it, and that no serious side effects could be attributed to the drug.

A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to endorse emergency use of Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the agency to authorize the shot for a nation that has lost more than 28...

Doses of a COVID19 vaccine made by China's Sinovac Biotech are rolling off a Brazilian production line, drawing interest around the country and across Latin America from governments struggling to procure costlier vaccines.

Every secondary school student in several London boroughs will be tested for COVID19 as the government tries to tackle a rise in cases that has given London the highest prevalence for the virus in England, risking new restrictions.

A group of activists and celebrities, including a cofounder of the Black Lives Matter movement, have signed an open letter to Nigeria's president demanding that he hold accountable security personnel accused of shooting antipolice brutality protesters.

Presidentelect Joe Biden is nominating Denis McDonough, who was President Barack Obamas White House chief of staff, as secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a sprawling agency that has presented organizational challenges for both parties over t...

Romania's president will start discussions on Monday on forming a new government, his office said, with a centristled coalition seen as the most likely outcome a week after inconclusive elections.

Lebanon's investigating judge has charged caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three former ministers with negligence over the Beirut port blast that killed 200 people and ruined a swathe of the capital in August.

Moderna Inc said on Thursday it had dosed the first participant in a midtolate stage study testing its COVID19 vaccine candidate in adolescents aged 12 to less than 18.

Decomposing mink buried in dirt pits in Denmark following a nationwide cull may have contaminated groundwater, local Radio4 reported on Thursday, citing a government agency report.