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Spain's health ministry on Thursday lowered a price cap on health masks used to curb COVID19 contagion to 0.62 euros ($0.73) per mask to take into account a cut in valueadded tax announced this week.

Azerbaijan has extended coronavirus lockdown restrictions until Dec. 28 after a further rise in the number of infections, a presidential aide said on Thursday.

Humanitarian agencies say a possible U.S. designation of Yemen's Houthi group as a foreign terrorist organisation would prevent lifesaving aid to the conflictriven country, where fears of famine are rising.

A new, mutated strain of the novel coronavirus stemming from mink farms in Denmark is "most likely" extinct, the health ministry said on Thursday, amid fears the new strain could compromise COVID19 vaccines.

President Donald Trump has identified China as the country's biggest foe and the Justice Department mirrored that emphasis over the last four years with a drumbeat of cases against defendants ranging from hackers accused of targeting intellectual property...

Liberia's supreme court has cancelled a national referendum scheduled for next month on constitutional changes that would reduce the length of the president's term and allow for dual citizenship, citing a procedural issue.

President Donald Trump is trying to turn America's free and fair election into a muddled mess of misinformation, specious legal claims and baseless attacks on the underpinnings of the nation's democracy.

Oil prices firmed by about 1% on Wednesday on hopes OPEC and its allies will delay a planned increase in oil output and after Pfizer said its COVID19 vaccine was more effective than previously reported.

Storm Iota unleashed flash floods in areas already waterlogged with rain, forcing tens of thousands of people across Central America to flee their homes with a death toll feared to be over 20 by Wednesday morning.

A federal judge on Wednesday granted a U.S. government request to drop drug charges against former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos, a move Mexico said would restore trust in severely strained security cooperation ties.

A Danish study released on Wednesday found face masks provide the wearer with only limited protection against COVID19 infection, but said this should not be used to argue against their widespread use to prevent people infecting others.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) said on Wednesday it had accidentally disclosed information about its monetary policy announcement last week to a group of financial services firms before it was made public.

According to the findings of the phase 1/2 randomised clinical trial, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, the vaccine candidate could induce an antibody response in participants within 28 days of the first immunisation, by giving two dose...

Police in Hong Kong said they had arrested three former lawmakers on Wednesday morning over May and June incidents in which foulsmelling liquid was thrown in the city's legislature, an act police said was intended to cause harm.

Trump, who refuses to acknowledge that he lost his bid for reelection to Democrat Biden, has repeatedly claimed without evidence that the voting and count were replete with fraud.

Mainland China reported eight new COVID19 cases on Nov. 17, down from 15 cases a day earlier, the country's health authority said on Wednesday.