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Nearly half a million people have contracted COVID19 in the United States over the last seven days, according to a Reuters tally, as new cases and hospitalizations set records in the Midwest.

Tension gripped the streets of Philadelphia for a second night on Tuesday following a deadly police shooting of a Black man armed with a knife and described by relatives as suffering from a mental breakdown as he was confronted by law enforcement.

Muslims across the world have reacted furiously to Macron's robust defence of the right to mock religion following the murder of a French schoolteacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the prophet.

The companies, including Novavax, have already made distribution deals with several countries for the vaccines, once approved.

A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday was set to hear a challenge to Minnesota's sevenday extension for counting absentee ballots after Election Day, which the Republican plaintiffs argue could lead to thousands of votes received after Nov. 3 being dis...

A landmark hearing in the Russian doping saga was confirmed Tuesday to go ahead despite travel and health restrictions during the current coronavirus spike in Switzerland.

The area around the Arc de Triomphe in central Paris has been evacuated following a bomb alert, a police spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday.

Novavax Inc on Tuesday delayed the start of a latestage U.S. trial of its experimental coronavirus vaccine by roughly a month to the end of November, citing delays in scaling up the manufacturing process.

Oil prices rose on Tuesday after recent sharp losses, but market sentiment remains muted as surging COVID19 cases around the world hurt the outlook for crude demand while supply is rising.

China's foreign ministry said the country will take necessary measures to uphold its sovereignty and security interests, after the United States approved a further $2.4 billion in potential arms sales to Taiwan.

Wellington Phoenix said on Tuesday they will be based in Australia's New South Wales (NSW) for the start of the ALeague campaign and will not return to New Zealand during the season unless COVID19 travel restrictions are eased.

This time they mostly wore masks.

The U.N. human rights investigator for Belarus demanded Monday that the government stop repressing its own people, saying at least 20,000 were detained in August and September and hundreds reported beaten, intimidated, tortured or illtreated in custody.

Turkeys president and the newlyelected Turkish Cypriot leader voiced their support on Monday for the resumption of peace talks for Cyprus based on a solution envisioning two separate states departing from a formula followed for decades.

Negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the controversial dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile River will resume Tuesday, according to the chairman of the African Union, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

A French doctor warned Monday that his country has lost control of the epidemic, a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations across Europe enact more sweeping restrictions to try to slow surging infection rate...