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Biden @POTUS account to start from zero without Trump followers

Twitter will send a one-time notification to users who follow @JoeBiden or @KamalaHarris to suggest they follow the transition team's account, @Transition46, w...

Dr Deborah Birx: White House virus expert quits over holiday travel

In a statement released over the weekend, Birx said that her trip from Washington, D.C.to DE for Thanksgiving in which she was shown with family beyond her ow...

Airlines agree to screen JFK-bound passengers from Britain for coronavirus

Mr. Cuomo said that British Airways has already volunteered to require COVID-19 tests for all passengers boarding New York-bound flights from United Kingdom air...

Balochistan: Three Baloch refugees killed in Afghanistan and Canada

On Tuesday, the Toronto Police Service said it was aware of "heightened community and media interest" surrounding the investigation of Karima's death. We can't ...

Ontario will enter into a province-wide shutdown on Boxing Day

Ford said essential retail includes grocery stores and pharmacies. Health Canada said there's nothing at this point suggesting that the mutations have any eff...

Ireland, Italy, Belgium and Netherlands ban flights from UK

The announcements followed after Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister stated that there must be cancellations of Christmas shopping and gathering in Southern E...

White House considers Covid testing requirement for travelers from UK

The new highly transmissible strain has shown a similar lethal effect as other variant strains but it contains key mutations, particularly in the virus receptor...

Trudeau set to halt passenger flights to Canada from the UK

Other countries are also considering similar bans, among them France, Germany, Austria and Ireland, according to local media. Amid fears of the new strain of ...

Two killed in Kabul shooting, bomb attack

Targeted killings of prominent figures, including journalists, politicians and rights activists have also become more common recently in Kabul and other provi...

Russian Federation to Suspend Flights With UK Amid Mutated Virus Fears

On Monday, Poland and Norway became the latest countries to announce temporary bans on flights from Britain. He said health officials around the world have seen...

Coronavirus new variant: Genomics researcher answers key questions

Whitty said that the virus mutation was likely to be the reason behind the sudden rise in COVID-19 cases around the capital and southeast of the country. This i...

COVID-19: Buhari govt, Senate meet over vaccine

The FDA had first approved Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month. The government has previously signed preliminary agreements wit...

Thailand reports record surge in daily coronavirus cases to over 500

Thailand on Sunday began testing tens of thousands of people for coronavirus and extended curbs on movement, a day after locking down a province following the...

US Congress reaches deal on $900 billion COVID-19 relief package

The benefit could start as early as December 27 and run through March 14, according to lawmakers' descriptions of the provisions. The deal came down to th...

Brexit talks flirt with failure as new deadline blown

The urgency of reaching a deal is seen in long lines of trucks at the freight rail link through the Channel tunnel as British companies frantically stockpile....

Russian Agent Tricked Into Revealing Plot to Poison Navalny

According to The Guardian , one operative recognised Navalny's voice on the phone immediately and ended the call, but the second person he phoned, Konstantin ...

India suspends flights from United Kingdom till Dec 31

Beyond Europe, Israel also said it was banning flights from Britain, Denmark and South Africa because those were the countries where the mutation is found. Aust...

Sources indicate Ontario government planning province-wide lockdown

For the past several months, the provincial government has taken a regional approach in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Modeling shows that could more than ...

Saudi Arabia suspends global flights amid second Covid-19 wave

The state-run airline also suspended all flights to Mascot in Oman for one week with effect from today as the country suspended all worldwide flights. Count...

Hawaii volcano: As Kilauea erupts residents told to stay home

The eruption started with multiple fissures opening on the walls of Halemaumau crater, USGS said. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports the eruption at K...

LOCKDOWN CHRISTMAS: Festivities curtailed to curb rapid spread of new coronavirus strain

Britain tightened COVID-19 restrictions in London and southern England to try to curb the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus. Johnson and England's...

Australia detects new United Kingdom strain; Hong Kong, India cancel Britain flights

While the new variant was first seen in Britain in September, by the week of December 9 in London , 62 per cent of COVID-19 cases were due to the new variant. ...

What we know -- and what we don't -- about the United Kingdom coronavirus variant

Scientists are racing to find out if the new mutant strain of coronavirus is vulnerable to current vaccines. "It is really too early to tell . but from wha...

Sunshine returns, blast of colder air by Christmas

On the East Coast there could be some dramatic temperature swings with parts of New Jersey at around 60F on Christmas Eve falling to single digits by Christm...

Israeli PM joins world leaders getting COVID-19 vaccine

Netanyahu, 71, and his health minister were injected on Saturday with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine live on TV at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv...

Saudi Arabia suspends worldwide flights amidst reports of new Coronavirus strain

PK-9739 and PK-9760 Multan-Jeddah-Lahore were cancelled. Etihad has said flights are suspended until further notice implying it may not fly even when borders ...

Weather: Light snow possible today. ‘Messy’ storm expected on Christmas Eve

Clouds will linger through the day on Sunday , but most if not all of the day will be dry. Highs reach the mid- to upper 40s as wind gusts potentially top 30 m...

'Deadline' for Brexit talks goes with no deal in sight

The British team, exhausted from the back and forth on fisheries, snacked on mince pies and mulled wine that were provided by UK Ambassador Sir Tim Barrow, acco...

Farm laws were long overdue, says Modi

Millions of farmers are now on the streets around Delhi in this cold weather facing BJP government's oppression. Tomar, in his letter to the farmers, said tha...

Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in 737 MAX testing: US Senate report

The 737 Max fleet has been grounded worldwide since March 2019 after crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people within five months in 2018 and 2019...

China to inoculate key groups with COVID-19 vaccines in winter, spring

To protect high-risk groups, China approved the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines in June. Jiao Yahui, an official with the commission's medical administra...

US Congress reaches deal on $900 bn Covid-19 stimulus package

The deal late on Saturday was a critical breakthrough for lawmakers who have been racing to complete the emergency plan to rush direct payments, unemployment be...

Trump Downplays Impact of Massive Hacking, Questions Russia Involvement

Also targeted were the National Institutes of Health - at a time of keen interest in coronavirus vaccines - as well as the Energy Department and National Nuclea...

Several EU nations halt United Kingdom flights, fearing new virus strain

Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has indicated that his government was planning to suspend flights from the country. Its ban will take effect for at leas...

European Union fears new Covid strain will explode across Channel

The WHO tweeted late on Saturday that it was "in close contact with United Kingdom officials on the new #COVID19 virus variant and promised to update govern...