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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had distributed 59,304,600 doses of COVID19 vaccines in the United States and that 39,037,964 doses had been administered as of Saturday morning.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Friday discussed issues ranging from regional security to human rights and the war in Yemen, the State Department said on Saturday.

President Joe Biden gave a pep talk to a California woman who was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic, during a conversation the White House said is part of an effort to help him engage more consistently with regular Americans.

Daniil Medvedev fired Russia into the final of the ATP Cup on Saturday with a tense 36 63 75 win over an injuryhampered Alexander Zverev after the German destroyed a racket in frustration over a lost service break.

A New York judge ruled Friday that Republican Claudia Tenney defeated U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi by 109 votes in the nation's last undecided congressional race.

Central African Republic (CAR) has extended a state of emergency for six months as it combats rebel groups, the government said on Friday.

Tens of thousands of Russians have taken to the streets in recent weeks after the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny despite the risk of being detained.

If vaccine supplies are confirmed, seven million Italians could be fully vaccinated against COVID19 by the end of March, the government's special commissioner Domenico Arcuri said on Friday.

The leaders of Denmark, Austria, the Czech Republic and Greece have urged the European Commission to act quickly to secure supplies of the COVID19 vaccine developed by U.S. drugmaker Johnson & Johnson.

An Israeli security guard shot dead an unarmed Palestinian who tried to break into a house in a small settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israel's military said.

Twentyfour activists appeared in a Hong Kong court on Friday on charges related to a June 4 vigil last year marking the anniversary of China's military crackdown on prodemocracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.

US President Joe Biden said the military should step down as the administration considered slapping sanctions on the generals responsible for Monday's coup in the Southeast Asian country.

The leaders of Indonesia and Malaysia on Friday said they were seeking a special meeting of foreign ministers of Southeast Asian nations to discuss the situation in Myanmar, where an elected government was overthrown in a coup earlier this week.

South Korea and COVID19 vaccine maker Moderna Inc are in discussions over a $200 million investment by the U.S. drugmaker in the country to build a factory, as it seeks to expand in Asia.

Both Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE as well as Moderna Inc, whose vaccines have been authorized for emergency use in the United States, have said they are preparing for the possibility that variants will emerge that could require a booster shot...

Italy reported 421 coronavirusrelated deaths on Thursday against 476 the day before, the health ministry said, taking the official toll since the epidemic emerged a year ago to 90,241, according to health ministry data.