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Tradedependent Taiwan has made "relatively" good progress towards joining the revamped version of the TransPacific Partnership, but it is awaiting clearer rules on membership, the island's chief trade negotiator said on Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign on Sunday dropped a major part of a lawsuit it brought seeking to halt Pennsylvania from certifying its results in the presidential election, narrowing the case to a small number of ballots.

Hurricane Iota is rapidly gathering strength as it barrels toward Central America, a region still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Eta, and experts predict this year's unprecedented storm season will force more people to migrate.

There has to be a breakthrough in Brexit talks this week, British and Irish ministers said on Sunday, ahead of the expiry of Britain's transition deal with the European Union on Dec. 31.

Ethiopians fleeing war in the northern Tigray region crossed a border river into neighbouring Sudan on Saturday, some in boats, some swimming or wading through the water.

President Donald Trump delighted supporters gathered near the White House on Saturday with a slow motorcade driveby through downtown Washington on the way to his Virginia golf club.

Poland reported a record high 548 new coronavirusrelated deaths on Saturday, the health ministry said, taking the country's total above 10,000.

Vietnam was bracing for Typhoon Vamco to make landfall in the country's central coast early on Sunday, as the death toll in the Philippines rose to 53 from that country's deadliest storm this year.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Minsk and other Belarusian cities on Friday, after a 31yearold antigovernment protester died in hospital following what demonstrators said was a severe beating by security forces.

Police cordoned off an area near downtown Montreal on Friday amid media reports of a hostage situation and asked people to stay away.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is poised to send a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday evening in NASA’s first operational mission using the Crew Dragon capsule.

More than 130 U.S. Secret Service officers assigned to protect President Donald Trump have been sidelined by COVID19, the Washington Post reported on Friday as the novel coronavirus outbreak spread at the White House.

The head of Democratic U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden's coronavirus advisory board said on Friday there was no plan to shut the country down and that the new administration's approach will be targeted at specific areas.

Austria is investigating 21 people as possible accomplices of the jihadist who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Vienna last week, but much remains unknown, including how he got to the area of the attack, officials said on Friday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the creation of a large marine preservation zone in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, burnishing his green credentials days after finding common ground on climate change with U.S. PresidentElect Joe Biden.

Japan does not need another state of emergency to tackle the novel coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday, even though it is seeing record high numbers of new daily cases as the weather grows cold.