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Australian states and territories will get more doses of COVID19 vaccines soon, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, as authorities look to avoid further delays in an immunisation drive that has hit several roadblocks.

Three California children got in trouble after catching an alligator by its neck and dragging it to shore while vacationing near a Florida lake.

International rules meant that Guinea had to wait 42 days -- twice the virus' incubation period -- without a new case before declaring the epidemic over.

The declaration of Juneteenth as a federal holiday is putting the pressure on more U.S. companies to give their employees the day off, accelerating a movement that took off last year in response to the racial justice protests that swept the country.

The UN Security Council recommended his name to the 193-member General Assembly after a closed meeting on June 8.

The delta variant was first identified in neighbouring India and is considered a more transmissible version of the disease.

Kate, Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, launches a new centre for early childhood on Friday with the aim of raising the importance of the first five years of children's lives and seeking to "transform society for generations to come", her office said.

Texas is transferring inmates from a state prison to make room for migrants detained by state authorities, a prison system spokesman said Thursday.

Montenegrin lawmakers on Thursday ousted a proSerb government minister who has denied the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica and passed a resolution condemning the massacre, in a vote that has shaken the new government and exposed a rift within the Balkan countr...

North Carolina Senate Republicans pushed a trio of election measures through their chamber on Wednesday, including one that would prohibit counting mailin absentee ballots that aren't received by local officials by Election Day.

A Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a samesex couple violated the state's antidiscrimination law by refusing to make a birthday cake for a transgender woman, a state judge ha...

Biden and Putin agreed to return their respective ambassadors to Washington and Moscow in a bid to improve badly deteriorated diplomatic relations between their countries.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper granted a pardon Wednesday to a man who was once on death row for a shopkeepers slaying and spent more than 40 years in prison before he was released.

Joe Biden wrapped up the first overseas trip of his presidency Wednesday after rallying allies and facing off with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The U.S. leader also gave Putin a crystal sculpture of an American bison made by a New York-based glass company.

Speaker Qaiser said that members who disrupted the session during Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif's speech have been barred from entering the House