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WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The president's poet woke up a superstar on Thursday, after a powerful reading at the U.S. inauguration catapulted 22-year-old Amanda Gorman to the top of Amazon's best-seller list.

Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans on Thursday to stop complaining about the slow rollout of a vaccine against COVID19 and defended a decision to extend a lockdown as necessary to stem a more aggressive variant of the coronavirus.

It is too early to say when the national COVID lockdown in England will end, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, adding that persistently high infection levels demonstrated how infectious a new variant was.

Hungary's drug regulator has given initial approval for use of Britain's AstraZeneca and Russia's Sputnik V vaccines against the coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said on Thursday, confirming media reports.

The United States' peaceful transition of power included a spotlight on fashion on Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in at the U.S. Capitol, both sporting American designers.

Canadian regulators approved the project in 2010 but it was blocked by President Barack Obama in 2015 due to environmental concerns, a decision that his successor Donald Trump reversed in 2017.

The Birmingham Police Department's south precinct was called to a neighborhood at around 2 pm on Wednesday due to reports of shots fired, Sgt. Rod Mauldin said.

President Joe Biden declared Wednesday that truth and democracy are under attack in America and he pledged to usher the posttruth era out of U.S. politics.

The court is located next to the US Capitol, where Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, former presidents and top officials were gathering for the presidential inauguration ceremony.

Fewer Spanish women were killed by their partner or expartner in 2020 than in previous years, but that statistic masks a rise in genderbased violence as COVID lockdowns left victims confined with their abusers, rights groups and officials say.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday it was "outrageous" that any police data had been lost, but his government was working to assess the damage after thousands of records were deleted in error.

Pope Francis on Wednesday urged more nations to join a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons, saying their prohibition is badly needed to promote peace today.

South Korea may secure additional coronavirus vaccines for 20 million people from U.S. drugmaker Novavax Inc, President Moon Jaein said, according to a statement from the presidential office on Wednesday.

Two U.S. Army National Guard members have been removed from the presidential inauguration security mission after they were found to have ties with rightwing militia groups, according to two U.S. Army officials. There was no threat to Presidentelect Joe Bi...

A Virginia man with an apparent leadership role in the farright militia group known as the "Oath Keepers" was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly "planning and coordinating" the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said.