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About 11,000 people have crossed from Ethiopia to Sudan fleeing the conflict in their home country and an estimated 50% of them are children, a U.N. refugee agency official said on Thursday.

Bangladesh is extending its closure of all schools and other educational institutions until Dec. 19 amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections during the winter, the education ministry said on Thursday.

Democrat Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, beating President Donald Trump, after a longerthanusual process of counting mailin ballots that a record number of Americans relied on during the coronavirus pandemic.

A makeshift Croatia side missing several regular starters held Turkey to a rollercoaster 33 draw in an entertaining friendly on Wednesday ahead of toptier Nations League games against Sweden and Portugal.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday he would travel to Japan next week, becoming the first world leader to meet in person with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's director of communications resigned on Wednesday, a move that suggested tension at the heart of government as Britain prepares to complete its Brexit journey out of the European Union.

Oil prices rose in early trade on Thursday, taking the week's gains to more than 12% on growing hopes that the world's major producers will hold off on a planned supply increase as soaring cases of COVID19 dent fuel demand.

Georgia will recount all paper ballots cast in the Nov. 3 presidential election by hand, the state's top election official said on Wednesday, a mammoth task that must be completed by Nov. 20.

Spain will from Nov. 23 demand a negative coronavirus test taken within 72 hours for air travellers arriving from countries with a high risk of contracting COVID19, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, adding to an array of internal restrictions.

A fiery crash on a bridge linking Ohio and Kentucky could force the span to remain closed for days as intense heat from the blaze delayed inspections of the bridge that serves as a crucial link for interstate commerce, Kentucky's governor said Wednesday.

Iran has finished moving a first cascade of advanced centrifuges from an aboveground plant at its main uranium enrichment site to an underground one in a fresh breach of its nuclear deal with big powers, a U.N. atomic watchdog report showed on Wednesday.

Eightyfive people have been killed in violence linked to Ivory Coast's disputed Oct. 31 election, the government said on Wednesday before a meeting between President Alassane Ouattara and a key opposition leader aimed at calming tensions.

President Donald Trump will participate in the Veterans Day observance at Arlington National Ceremony on Wednesday, emerging in public for the first time since his failed reelection bid to take part in the annual presidential rite.

Hungary's rightwing government has drafted legislation that would practically ban adoption by samesex couples in what rights groups said was an attack on the LGBTQ community when COVID19 meant they could not protest.

South Korea's spy chief has proposed a summit of the leaders of the United States, Japan and the two Koreas during the Tokyo Olympics next year, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The West Indies cricket squad has been stripped of the right to train while in managed isolation after players were found to have breached rules around their 14day quarantine.