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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the issue "one of the greatest health threats of our time". Resistance is when bugs become immune to existing drugs -- antibiotic, antiviral or antifungal treatments -- rendering minor injuries and common infect...

Taiwan's foreign minister voiced confidence on Saturday that the incoming government of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden would support a long soughtafter bilateral trade agreement, following high level economic talks with the outgoing administration.

Trump Jr's positive test follows infections for a list of others connected to the White House, including his father, the president's wife Melania and Trump's youngest son Barron.

The Justice Department has scheduled three more federal executions during the lameduck period before Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office, including two just days before his inauguration.

Washington is poised to designate four more Chinese companies as backed by the Chinese military, sources said, curbing their access to U.S. investors as the Trump administration seeks to cement its hawkish China legacy in its waning days.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said he would pull funding from several of the emergency lending programs set up by the Federal Reserve this year.

Apple Inc , advertising giant GroupM and others asked the judge hearing the Justice Department's lawsuit against Alphabet's Google on Friday to allow them to designate certain data used by the government as "highly confidential," to ensure that noone fro...

Jonathan Pollard, the former Navy intelligence analyst who served 30 years in prison for selling secrets to Israel, has completed his parole, the Justice Department said Friday.

Britain is gearing up to continue imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods over subsidies provided to Boeing Co as it completes its withdrawal from the European Union at the end of the year, a UK official familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said he would pull funding from several of the emergency lending programs set up by the Federal Reserve this year.

U.S. stocks closed lower on Friday as investors wrestled with fiscal stimulus developments, concerns over a lengthy rollout of vaccines, and a growing number of statelevel shutdowns to combat the spiraling COVID19 pandemic.

An Indian religious leader has asked a Brazilian fashion clothes brand to remove the image of Hindu deity Lord Ganesh from one of its lines of shorts for men and women.

The uneasy balance between the wildfirelike spread of the coronavirus in the United States and an economy that remains largely open may be tested in coming weeks if face mask mandates and other lightertouch measures fail to control the crisis.

Hungary could receive up to one million doses of coronavirus vaccine from China in the coming months, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told state news agency MTI on Friday after a phone call with his Chinese counterpart.

A longlost trove of Bob Dylan documents including the singersongwriter's musings about antiSemitism and unpublished song lyrics has sold at auction for $495,000.

A divided federal appeals court on Friday struck down laws in south Florida that prohibited therapists from offering socalled conversion therapy to children struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identity.