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The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said more than 550 shelters home to around 3,500 people were either totally or partially destroyed in the blaze, as well as 150 shops and a facility belonging to a non-profit organization.

Over the years, the force was professionalised and expanded. Today, it is in crisis once again, with calls for a full investigation into what lawmakers have called a “severe systemic failure” that allowed an angry mob of Trump loyalists to storm the Capit...

More than 10 million Americans had received their first dose of a COVID19 vaccine as of Wednesday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as the yearold pandemic roared on unchecked.

The United States stands by Taiwan and always will, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said on Wednesday following a call with Taiwan President Tsai Ingwen, after her own trip to Taipei this week got scrapped.

The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement resigned Wednesday, only weeks after taking over the agency that detains and deports immigrants and runs international criminal investigations.

The riots sought to overturn the 2020 election results conforming Joe Biden as US’s next president, however, the efforts of the Trump-supporters were thwarted when Biden presidency was confirmed by the joint session of Congress.

As the United States recorded its highest singleday death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began nearly a year ago, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday said the city would fall short of its inoculation goals unless it could get more vaccine.

Trump, who has been stripped of his social media megaphones by Twitter and Facebook, is struggling to impose his message - let alone any kind of resistance.

Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful Democrat in Congress, made the remarks during a debate over whether to impeach Trump for an unprecedented second time, for "incitement of insurrection."

Britain reported 1,564 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test for COVID19 on Wednesday, a record daily toll, meaning more have died in the second wave of the pandemic than the first wave last year, a health official said.

The Spanish regions of Galicia, La Rioja and Cantabria became the latest to tighten coronavirus restrictions on Wednesday amid a spiralling national infection rate that government officials have blamed on lax adherence to the rules over Christmas.

Ireland hopes to vaccinate up to 2.2 million people against COVID19 by the end of June, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said on Wednesday, less than half of the country's population of 4.9 million.

Scotland will tighten its lockdown measures to restrict nonessential retailers from offering "clickandcollect" services and limit how takeaway food and drink can be sold from Saturday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.

A joint review of money transfers from the Vatican to Australia showed that between 2014 and 2020 only A$9.5 million ($7.35 million) transited instead of the A$2.3 billion originally calculated by Australia's financial watchdog, the Vatican said on Wednes...

AstraZeneca is scaling up releases of COVID19 vaccine doses to the United Kingdom to the point where it expects to be providing 2 million a week by or before the middle of February, a top executive told lawmakers on Wednesday.

The daily number of COVID19 cases in the United Arab Emirates crossed the 3,000 threshold for the first time this week as authorities in the Middle East's business and tourism hub urged people to accept vaccinations.