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Chinese Authorities Detain Bloomberg News Assistant

Monday local time. Fan, a Chinese national, is described by Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief Jon Micklethwait as "a talented and integral part of our bureau". Fan ...

YouTube bans new videos claiming U.S. election fraud

In a press release, the online video-sharing platform specifically prohibited some of the unsubstantiated theories pushed by President Donald Trump. Any videos ...

Rep. Eric Swalwell responds to Chinese spy story by blaming President Trump

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Biden to nominate ex-Iowa Gov. Vilsack for USDA secretary -Axios

She also served in President Bill Clinton's administration as the special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs at the White House,...

Israel to get initial Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shipment on Thursday, minister says

Netanyahu's remarks came upon the arrival of the first batch of 100,000 Pfizer vaccine doses. The prime minister's office said in a statement Netanyahu would ...

Azerbaijan's 'struggle' with Armenia not over: Erdogan

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, is welcomed by Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, center, in Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. "Eve...

Astrazeneca To Test Combining COVID-19 Vaccine With Russian Shot

Using two different vectors for two vaccine shots will result in higher efficacy than using the same vector for two shots", they said on November 23. Gintsbur...

United States waiver law bothers Biden Pentagon nomination Lloyd Austin

Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, a double-amputee combat veteran who served in Iraq, told NBC she would not support the waiver, even though she expected it t...

South Korea mobilises military in Seoul as coronavirus cases surge, deaths

Nuclear-armed Pyongyang closed its borders in January, sealing itself off from the outside world in an effort to avoid contamination, and has long insisted th...

Ohio AG Dave Yost files brief criticizing Texas’ lawsuit challenging Biden win

Mr Trump has falsely claimed he won re-election and has made baseless allegations of widespread voting fraud. Federal law enforcement officials served a subpo...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris named Time 'Person of the Year'

TIME's editors revealed on NBC's "Today" show that they are choosing between four finalists, candidates the magazine says "affected the news of our lives the...

Morocco latest country to normalise ties with Israel in US-brokered deal

As part of the deal announced near the end of Trump's term, the United States will recognize Morocco's claim over the disputed Western Sahara region. Trump t...

Indonesia expects halal certificate for experimental vaccine

While AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford have pledged to provide 64% of their doses to people in developing nations, that would only reach 18% of the worl...

Covid-19: Poor Left Behind As Rich Nations ‘Hoarding Vaccines’

According to the group - a coalition of organisations including Oxfam and Amnesty International - almost 70 countries will only be able to vaccinate one in 10 ...

Emergency declared on Fraser Island as dozens flee

The blaze is believed to have been started by an illegal campfire, lit by tourists on October 14. Minister for Fire and Emergency Services Mark Ryan said more...

Hunter Biden facing federal investigation over 'tax affairs'

The revelation about the probe included no details, but it promises to rekindle Republican rage about the Biden family, including Hunter Biden's business deal...

Nevada's Supreme Court unanimously throws out demand to overturn Joe Biden's victory

It makes the remarkable request of the Supreme Court to immediately block the four states from using the voting results to appoint presidential electors to th...

Serum Institute, Bharat Biotech vaccines ‘not considered’ for emergency use authorisation

The application by the Indian arm of U.S. pharmaceutical firm Pfizer was not taken up for deliberation on Wednesday as the firm sought more time for making pres...

Russian police hunt thieves who plundered top secret 'doomsday' plane

Thieves broke into a closed airfield, opened a cargo hatch, and stole radio equipment from an Ilyushin Il-80 airborne command and control aircraft in Russia'...

Trump says attorney Rudy Giuliani tested positive for COVID-19

The rest of Biden's extensive health care agenda, from expanding insurance coverage to negotiating prices for prescription drugs, will likely hinge on how his a...

SI activist trashes Pete Davidson for forgetting his roots

A Staten Island, New York, bar owner who refuses to comply with COVID-19 shutdown orders has been arrested after striking a deputy with his vehicle in another c...

Ethiopia says there are Tigrayan fighters not yet defeated after conflict

A month of fighting between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's federal army and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF ) is believed to have killed thousands of p...

Armed protesters rally outside Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s home

And Chris Krebs, former director of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, on Tuesday filed a lawsuit after a lawyer for the Trump camp...

Venezuelans vote for parliament as West calls polls a fraud

With over 80% of ballots counted, Maduro's coalition had 67.6% of the vote, the National Electoral Council said. Mr Maduro's victory nonetheless further weake...

The Situation With Turkey Has Worsened, Says EU

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called for the European Union to rid itself of its "strategic blindness" and not be used as a tool of Greece an...

Mount Everest is 8,848.86 metres tall: Nepal & China after remeasurement

Some geologists have suggested that it may have grown taller due to the movement of those plates, including the shift that caused a major natural disaster in th...

Kangaroo Island surfer recovering after 'serious' shark attack

After the attack at remote D'Estrees Bay, he managed to swim back to shore, before walking another 300 metres (328 yards) to get help. © Photograph: Alastair ...

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner spend $30M on Miami land

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are preparing for life after the White House, purchasing property on a private island. It is believed the couple p...

Nigerian govt rejects USA listing on religious rights violation

It's not the first time the USA has raised concerns over religious freedom in Russian Federation. The statement from the Foreign Affairs Ministry reads, "The ...

Supreme Court refuses to overturn Trump's Pennsylvania loss

Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis tried to minimize the significance of the high court order, saying the underlying appeal by the Kelly and the other lawmakers ...

U.S. test pilot Chuck Yeager dies aged 97

She wrote: " It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET ". Today his widow said his legacy of ...

Biden defense secretary pick puts Dems who opposed Mattis in tough spot

Michèle Flournoy, Obama's former Pentagon policy chief, was initially viewed as the frontrunner , but apparently, she fell out of favor with the Biden transiti...

Humans have already made contact with aliens, Israeli ex-security chief claims

His credentials and accumulated experience should add weight to his argument because he is none other than the former head of Israel's security space program,...

Ghana set for close presidential race as old rivals face off

The poles closed at 5 p.m., and there were no reports of disruptions. "I hope that the atmosphere we saw here will be the same everywhere in the country and i...

Koalas return to Aussie wild after being rescued from bushfires_china

Researchers have been surveying the hardest-hit areas by the fires. Death, injury, trauma, smoke inhalation, heat stress, dehydration, loss of habitat, reduce...