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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were chosen ahead of three other finalists: frontline health care workers and Anthony Fauci, the racial justice movement, and President Donald Trump who Biden defeated in November's election.

Officials from around the world are keen for British authorities to give them as much information as possible about the two reported cases of anaphylaxis among thousands of people inoculated since mass-vaccination began on Tuesday.

Campaigners on Thursday unfurled a vast mockedup poster in front of the Eiffel Tower of French President Emmanuel Macron turning his back on a planet in flames, to press for more action on climate change five years on from the Paris accord.

Newsmax, a conservative cable news channel promoted by President Donald Trump, plans to expand in the United States and Britain, Chief Executive Chris Ruddy told Reuters.

A few hundred Hondurans formed a caravan bound for the United States on Wednesday after hurricanes battered the country, posing a fresh challenge to efforts to stem illegal immigration from Central America on the cusp of a new U.S. administration.

An extraordinary attempt by the state of Texas to have President Donald Trump's election loss upended by the U.S. Supreme Court is almost certain to fail, according to election law experts who called the lawsuit "absurd" and "laughable."

Veteran Palestinian negotiator and women's rights advocate Hanan Ashrawi said on Wednesday she would quit her senior post in the Palestine Liberation Organization at the end of 2020, and called for political reforms.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his campaign will join an improbable case before the Supreme Court challenging election results in Pennsylvania and other states that he lost as he tries to look past the justices' rejection of a lastgasp bid to...

Five people have been killed in election violence in Ghana, police said on Wednesday, as tensions boiled over during a tightly contested race that both sides say they are on track to win.

Travellers to Norway will be able to undergo a mandatory tenday quarantine in a place of their choosing if they can document that they can respect quarantine conditions, the Nordic country's justice minister said on Wednesday.

Two allergic reactions were reported on the first day of the rollout of the Pfizer COVID19 vaccine, the head of Britain's medicine regulator said on Wednesday.

Cyprus on Wednesday ordered the closure of malls and restaurants until the end of the year to try to subdue an aggressive jump in COVID19 cases.

More than 100 million Indonesians are eligible to vote in regional elections in the world's thirdlargest democracy on Wednesday, with health experts warning a huge turnout could see new coronavirus clusters emerge across the archipelago.

The United States has blacklisted six companies, including several based in China, and four ships accused of illicit exports of North Korean coal, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday.

AstraZeneca and Oxford University have more work to do to confirm whether their COVID19 vaccine can be 90% effective, peerreviewed data published in The Lancet showed on Tuesday, potentially slowing its eventual rollout in the fight against the pandemic.

Lebanon has ordered the release of a businessman linked to allegations of covert Libyan funding for former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign, state news agency NNA said.