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The head of U.S.funded global media has ordered an investigation into the posting of a video package featuring former Vice President Joe Biden on a Voice of America website and affiliated social media accounts.

The Minnesota Vikings placed linebacker Anthony Barr on the reserve list for COVID19 on Thursday, the eighth player they've designated since training camp began.

Two former highranking Mexican law enforcement officials have been accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect Joaquin El Chapo Guzmans notorious Sinaloa cartel, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Hitting back, Shivakumar claimed Yogeshwar had come to him about 15 days ago with a request to join Congress and asked whether he had gone 'mad' now.

Gandhi and the Grameen Bank founder will challenge the wisdom of pushing millions to migrate to urban areas, and examine the role of technology in fuelling an economic revolution in rural areas.

A car bomb killed at least five people near a Syrian border town controlled by Turkishbacked forces on Thursday, Turkey's Anadolu Agency and the Syrian Observatory, a war monitor, said.

The European Union has warned member states of the risk of shortages of syringes, wipes and protective gear needed for potential mass vaccinations against COVID19 and urged them to consider joint procurement, according to an EU document.

Preliminary tests to explain the reason for hundreds of mysterious elephant deaths in Botswana point to a naturally occurring toxin as a probable cause, a senior wildlife official told Reuters.

The claims are coming in a bit slow as families are initially in a state of shock when a death occurs and, therefore, it takes time to do the necessary paperwork, Officer on Special Duty in the Health Ministry Rajesh Bhushan said at a press briefing.

Politicians, dignitaries and other mourners filed into a historic Atlanta church on Thursday for the funeral of longtime U.S. Representative John Lewis, capping a week of memorial services and tributes to the civil rights pioneer.

Indonesia's capital of Jakarta extended its "transitional" social restrictions on Thursday to curb coronavirus transmission, said its governor, as the Southeast Asian country reported 1,904 new infections, Health Ministry data showed.

The comments by the top infectious diseases expert in the US come in the backdrop of the Oxford University’s plans to consider using human challenge trials to speed up vaccine trials.

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis is concerned about his club players travelling to Barcelona for the Champions League increased spike in coronavirus cas.

Chinese buyers booked their single biggest purchase of U.S. corn ever, extending their flurry of large purchases of American agricultural goods even as tensions between Washington and Beijing rise.

Nearly 560 Iraqi protesters and security forces were killed in months of antigovernment unrest that erupted last year, the government said on Thursday.