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Wealthy nations have reserved about 9 billion of the 12 billion mostly Western-developed shots expected to be produced next year, while Covax, a global effort to ensure equal access to COVID-19 vaccines, has fallen short of its promised capacity of 2 bill...

First published in the latest edition of Blood Cancer Discovery, the decade long research which reports that a new pharmacological strategy to preferentially target and eliminate leukemia cells with TET2 mutations, was carried out by Jaroslaw Maciejewski...

Josette Boyeldieu and Guylene Lehmann are pensioners, one of the groups most at risk from COVID19, but that did not discourage them from spending part of the Christmas holiday with their children and grandchildren near Paris.

Seconds before the gunfire, bodycam footage shows Hill walking towards the policeman holding a cell phone in his left hand, while his other hand cannot be seen.

Nearly five years since the Brexit crisis began, the United Kingdom and the European Union have clinched a trade deal that defines their relationship after Dec. 31.

Lives that had been focussed on school, university, sports or even going to Kpop concerts vanished overnight for members of Gen Z as the global pandemic struck.

The British government on Wednesday said huge swathes of England would be placed under its strictest COVID19 restrictions as a highly infectious virus variant sweeps the country, pushing the number of cases to a record level.

Qualified immunity, entwined with the U.S. history of racism and the struggle against it, emerged during the civil rights movement.

Japan will ban the entry of nonJapanese people from the United Kingdom from Thursday following the emergence of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, top government spokesman said on Wednesday.

Australia's most populous state on Wednesday relaxed coronavirus restrictions for Christmas following a second straight day of low case numbers, though parts of Sydney's northern seaside suburbs remain under lockdown.

It is common for the US to grant sovereign immunity for sitting heads of state and even foreign government officials, a step that is often justified as necessary under international law.

Modernas vaccine comes under the umbrella of the government's own effort, which is called Operation Warp Speed. That public-private endeavor was designed to have millions of vaccine doses ready and available to ship once a shot received FDA approval.

Presidentelect Joe Biden says it will take months to roll back some of President Donald Trumps actions on immigration, offering a slower timeline than he promised on the campaign trail and one that may rile advocates pushing for speedy action on the issue...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons says it has started to give the coronavirus vaccine to some highrisk inmates but wont say how many inmates have been vaccinated or how it selects those to receive the vaccine.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Turkey must immediately release prominent Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas, saying the justification for his four years in prison was a cover for limiting pluralism and debate.

Switzerland got its first doses of COVID19 vaccine on Tuesday, paving the way for jabs to begin just as the country imposes a monthlong clampdown on public life in an attempt to curb stubbornly high infection rates, health officials said.