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Trying to close out major unfinished business, the Trump administration issued regulations Friday that could lower the prices Americans pay for many prescription drugs.

Fluorescent tents, discarded climbing equipment, empty gas canisters and even frozen excrement have long littered the well-trodden route to the 8,848-metre (29,029-feet) high summit, earning it the name of 'the highest dumpster in the world'.

Britain has formally asked its medical regulator, the MHRA, to assess the COVID19 vaccine being produced by Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech , health minister Matt Hancock said on Friday.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the issue "one of the greatest health threats of our time".

Ethiopian troops battling rebel forces from the northern Tigray region have taken the towns of Axum and Adawa and are advancing on the town of Adigrat 116 kilometres (72 miles) from the Tigrayan capital of Mekelle, the government said late on Friday.

Swiss federal prosecutors are set to drop a nineyear investigation into a graft scandal linked to the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow jail and unblock most of the related money frozen in Swiss bank accounts.

The Ottawa Convention has granted Colombia a more than fouryear extension of its deadline to remove landmines throughout the country, the High Peace Commissioner's office said on Friday.

Zimbabwean journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin'ono was freed on bail on Friday after being arrested two weeks ago on charges of obstructing justice.

Public meetings of more than 20 people will be banned in the region of Finland's capital, Helsinki, to combat a rise in novel coronavirus infections, authorities said on Friday.

The United Kingdom has the worst official COVID-19 death toll in Europe and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has imposed some of the most stringent curbs in peacetime history in an attempt to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The move was a dramatic escalation of a long-running feud between the federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the region's ruling party, which dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades before Abiy took office in 201...

Patriarch Irinej, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, has died after contracting the coronavirus, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday.

Singapore is set to charge an activist with staging a oneman protest without a permit over an incident in which he held up a sign bearing a crudely drawn smiley face outside a police station.

Thousands of workers and students protested in Colombia on Thursday against the social and economic policies of President Ivan Duque, despite restrictions to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Jordan will open a consulate in Western Sahara, Morocco said on Thursday, in an apparent show of support for Rabat after the disputed territory’s Polisario independence movement said it was returning to an armed struggle.

Two French citizens described to a court in Paris on Thursday how they used their bare hands to disarm and immobilise an Islamist gunman in an attack on a highspeed train in France in 2015.