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A Thai court has ordered a leading government foe to remove allegations on social media that the state's coronavirus vaccine policy is opaque and unfairly favours a company owned by the king, the government said on Sunday.

Britain will next week formally apply to join a transPacific trading bloc of 11 countries, with negotiations set to start later this year, the government said on Saturday.

Ireland was not consulted by the European Commission before it briefly sought to restrict some exports of COVID19 vaccines by invoking an emergency Brexit clause related to Northern Ireland, Ireland's European Affairs Minister said on Saturday.

The United Arab Emirates has adopted amendments that would allow the Gulf state to grant citizenship to investors and other professionals including scientists, doctors and their families, the government said on Saturday.

American Magics ill-fated Americas Cup campaign ended Saturday not with a bang but with a whimper, dogged by mechanical failure as it lost twice to Italys Luna Rossa which swept the best-of-seven challengers semifinal 4-0.

Daniel Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story in 2002 on the links between the country's powerful spy agency ISI and al-Qaeda.

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A federal judge has blocked a lastminute rule issued by the Trump administration to limit what evidence the Environmental Protection Agency may consider as it regulates pollutants to protect public health.

Till Friday, Britain had recorded 3.75 million Covid-positive cases. The Indian equivalence of that would have been 80 million cases, or roughly the entire populations of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal and Jammu and Kashmir.

Housing secretary nominee Marcia Fudge told senators Thursday that she would take extraordinary actions to prevent people from losing their homes due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A Senate panel on Wednesday easily advanced President Joe Bidens nomination of Pete Buttigieg to be transportation secretary, setting up a final confirmation vote for a key role in Bidens push to rebuild the nations infrastructure and confront climate cha...

Female soldiers can let their hair down, and flash a little nail color under new rules being approved by the Army. But male soldiers will still have to shave.

President Joe Biden is set to announce a wideranging moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on U.S. lands, as his administration moves quickly to reverse Trump administration policies on energy and the environment and address climate change.

At an April White House news conference, Trump had mused about whether disinfectants could be used to treat the virus in humans -- asking whether there is "a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning."

The patter of paws is being heard in the White House again following the arrival of President Joe Biden's dogs Champ and Major. The two German shepherds the first pets to live at the executive mansion since the Obama administration.

Now that Trump's presidency is over, Republican senators who will serve as jurors in the trial are rallying to his legal defense, as they did during his first impeachment trial last year.