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Presidentelect Joe Biden will nominate retired General Lloyd Austin, who oversaw U.S. forces in the Middle East under President Barack Obama, to be his defense secretary, Biden's transition team said in a statement on Tuesday.

Axel Witsel scored on his return to Russia to ensure Borussia Dortmund topped its Champions League group with a 21 win over Zenit St. Petersburg on Tuesday.

Mexico aims to begin the COVID19 vaccination process for 125,000 people in December, Mexico's deputy health minister said on Tuesday, apparently scaling back its earlier plan to apply the first vaccine doses for 250,000 people by end of the year.

The I-View World Film Festival is set to be the home of Oscars-bound features and artistes from all over the world as it kicks off from Thursday. Over 50 movies, including shorts films, documentaries and features, from South Asia, Canada, Britain, Italy...

Hong Kong said on Tuesday the city would once again ban dining in restaurants after 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) and close all gyms and beauty salons, to curb a rise in coronavirus cases in the densely packed financial hub.

The country’s National Health Service will give priority to vaccinating people over the age of 80, frontline healthcare workers and nursing home staff and residents. Here is what people getting the vaccine should expect.

Australia's secondlargest city welcomed its first international passenger flight in five months on Monday, an arrival that will test the state of Victoria's revamped hotel quarantine system.

President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for COVID19, Trump said on Sunday, after a wave of travel by the former New York mayor seeking to persuade Republican state lawmakers to overturn the election results.

Thousands of demonstrators marched in the Belarus capital Minsk and elsewhere on Sunday as weekly protests demanding the resignation of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko continued, prompting police to detain more than 300 people.

Thousands of supporters of incoming Moldovan president Maia Sandu rallied in Chisinau on Sunday to demand a snap parliamentary election, accusing parliament of trying to sabotage her ability to fight corruption.

Former Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui said on Sunday his local bank accounts appeared to have been frozen after he said he would seek exile in Britain to continue his prodemocratic activities.

France knows that in any postBrexit trade deal with Britain its fishermen will not maintain their current quotas for catches in British waters, but an accord must be founded on a "large and lasting" access, European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune said.

Romanians head to the polls on Sunday in a national ballot key to restoring the country's reputation among investors, with the incumbent, reformoriented centrists of Prime Minister Ludovic Orban holding a narrow lead over opposition Social Democrats.

Firefighters extinguished a blaze on Saturday at the Magellan Midstream Partners petroleum storage tank farm in Corpus Christi, Texas, a company spokesman said.

President Donald Trump's first political rally since losing his reelection bid is ostensibly to urge support for the Republican incumbents in Georgia's two runoffs that will decide which party controls the Senate at the start of Joe Bidens administration.

South Korean authorities urged vigilance on Saturday as small coronavirus clusters emerged in a third wave, centred in the Seoul area, with infections near ninemonth highs.