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Two members of the National Guard have been pulled from duties related to the inauguration of Presidentelect Joe Biden following vetting for links to extremist movements, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday.

The world needs American leadership in the battle against COVID19, the EU's top diplomat said, urging Presidentelect Joe Biden to step up after the Trump administration was widely criticised for its slow response to the pandemic.

The International Health Regulations remain a "cornerstone" of public health security and need improving in some areas, but not major changes, the chair of a World Health Organization (WHO) panel reviewing the 2005 rules said on Tuesday.

Alexei Navalny is the most vocal and effective critic of Russia's government and President Vladimir Putin. He is in pretrial detention after returning to Russia from Berlin, where he was treated for the nearfatal effects of a militarygrade nerve toxin tha...

Presidentelect Joe Bidens national security Cabinet may be bare on Day One of his presidency, but an inaugurationeve spurt of Senate confirmation hearings suggests that wont be the case for long.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing U.S agencies to assess any security risks from Chinesemade drones in American government fleets and to prioritize removing them.

Italy reported 377 coronavirusrelated deaths on Monday, the same amount as the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections fell to 8,824 from 12,545.

Armin Laschet, the new leader of Germany's Christian Democrats, has yet to convince voters he would be a better choice than Bavarian premier Markus Soeder to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel after elections in September, a poll showed on Monday.

Western nations told Russia to immediately free detained Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Monday, a day after he was detained at a Moscow airport after flying home for the first time since he was poisoned last summer.

A heavy presence of law enforcement officers guarded state capitol grounds across the United States on Sunday in preparation for protests that so far have drawn only a small number of Trump supporters who believe the president's false claim that the 2020...

United States challenger American Magic is assessing the extent of damage to its race yacht Patriot, which capsized and came close to sinking during racing Sunday in the Americas Cup challengers series.

Protesters are expected to descend on statehouses across the United States on Sunday in support of baseless claims that electoral fraud robbed President Donald Trump of a second term, as law enforcement officials girded for possible violence.

Uzra Zeya has been nominated to be Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, according to key nominations for the Department of State announced by Biden.

The Brazilian jungle state of Amazonas received more emergency supplies of oxygen and respirators on Saturday, as the military and neighboring Venezuela scrambled to alleviate an unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by the COVID19 outbreak.

Thousands of Hondurans, including many families with children, walked together across Guatemala on Saturday hoping to reach the United States, fleeing poverty and violence in a region wracked by the economic fallout of the pandemic and backtoback hurrican...

Thousands of Hondurans, including many families with children, walked together across Guatemala on Saturday hoping to reach the United States, fleeing poverty and violence in a region wracked by the economic fallout of the pandemic and backtoback hurrican...