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The French government will only permit ski resorts to reopen lifts if the COVID19 situation by Jan. 20 allows, a minister said on Friday.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned Iran's government on Friday from importing COVID19 vaccines from the United States and Britain.

U.S. Capitol Police said late on Thursday that a police officer named Brian Sicknick died due to injuries sustained in response to the riot led by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol.

Pence's decision to publicly defy Trump was a first for the notoriously deferential vice president, who has been unflinchingly loyal to Trump since joining the GOP ticket in 2016.

France will keep its restaurants, cinemas and ski resorts closed while it cranks up its COVID19 vaccination rollout because the coronavirus is still spreading too fast and hospitals remain under severe pressure, Prime Minister Jean Castex said.

An incoming Kansas lawmaker who faced a possible attempt to oust him once he took office has reached a legal agreement with a woman who accused him of harassment to end an antistalking court order against him, an attorney says.

Australia's financial watchdog is reviewing its calculation that transfers worth US$1.8 billion had been sent to the country from the Vatican since 2014, after Vatican and Australian Church calls for clarification.

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Moderna Inc is on track to deliver between 600 million and 1 billion doses of its COVID19 vaccine this year, Chief Executive Stephane Bancel said on Thursday.

Indonesia's highest Muslim clerical council aims to issue a ruling on whether a COVID19 vaccine is halal, or permissible under Islam, before the country is due to start a mass inoculation programme using a Chinese vaccine next week.

Oil prices were steady on Thursday after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol, with investors focusing on the likelihood of tighter supplies after Saudi Arabia unilaterally agreed to cut output.

More Americans were hospitalized with COVID19 on Wednesday than at any time since the pandemic began, as total coronavirus infections crossed the 21 million mark, deaths soared across much of the United States and a historic vaccination effort lagged.

The European drugs regulator could soon give the go ahead for an extra sixth dose to be extracted from PfizerBioNTech COVID19 vaccine vials, an EU official told Reuters on Wednesday, lifting the number of available shots at a time when supplies are short.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday any end to the latest lockdown in England will be a "gradual unwrapping" when the regions of the country will move out of stringent restrictions step by step.