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A group of activists answered a police summons on Thursday over complaints that could see them jailed for up to 15 years for insulting Thailand's king, as authorities increasingly use "lese majeste" laws against prodemocracy protest leaders.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is considering sanctions and other restrictions on those involved in the arrest of over 50 people in Hong Kong and warned it could target the territory's economic and trade office in the United States.

The chaotic scenes unfolded after Republican Trump, who has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, addressed thousands of protesters and repeated unfounded claims that the election was stolen from him.

Earlier in the day, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube all removed a short video from Trump in which he urged those supporters Wednesday to go home while also repeating falsehoods about the integrity of the presidential election.

Donald Trump's supporters stormed a session of Congress held Wednesday to certify Joe Biden's election win, triggering unprecedented chaos and violence.

Presidentelect Joe Biden said on Wednesday he was hopeful Jon Ossoff would be victorious after fellow Democrat Raphael Warnock was projected to win one of the two U.S. Senate seats up for grabs in Tuesday's runoff elections.

A top Swedish government official closely involved in the country's handling of the coronavirus pandemic offered to resign on Wednesday, after a public outcry over his Christmas vacation on Spain's Canary Islands.

Britain, France and Germany warned Iran on Wednesday that its decision to restart uranium enrichment at 20 percent risked undermining hopes of reviving diplomacy when a new United States administration takes over later in January.

Three weeks after being fired by English club West Bromwich Albion, Slaven Bilic has landed another coaching job in the Chinese Super League.

American Sam Querrey, who was sanctioned by the ATP for breaching COVID19 protocols at the St Petersburg Open in October, has defended his actions, saying he did what he felt was right as a father and a husband.

Chinese authorities say they are stepping up efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus, seeking to avoid another wave of the pandemic in the country amid a rise in locally transmitted COVID19 cases near Beijing.

Denmark imposed new lockdown measures on Tuesday aimed at curbing the rapid spread of a new coronavirus variant that is believed to be more transmissible, the country's prime minister said.

Four migrants were found dead and three were treated for acute sunburn after their boat reached the Canary island of Tenerife on Tuesday, Spanish coastguards said.

France is accelerating its COVID19 vaccination of medical staff in hospitals after a slow initial rollout in one of the most vaccinesceptical countries in the world that has drawn an angry rebuke from President Emmanuel Macron.

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Most OPEC+ oilproducing countries oppose plans to increase output from February as winter lockdowns to contain the coronavirus choke demand, four OPEC+ sources told Reuters on Monday.