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For 90 tense minutes, members of the Senate relived the horror.

Iraqi lawyer Hussein alGhorabi said he left his hometown of Nassiriya four months ago after an armed group threatened him over his political activism.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chanocha, who himself first seized power in a coup, said on Wednesday he had received a letter from Myanmar's new junta leader asking for help to support democracy.

President Joe Biden is making his first visit to the Pentagon as commander in chief, taking stock of a military as it pivots from the turmoil of the Trump years and focuses to an unusual degree on domestic and internal issues.

Thousands of people joined demonstrations in the main city of Yangon. In the capital Naypyitaw, hundreds of government workers marched in support of a growing civil disobedience campaign, which was started by health workers.

Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden's nominee to head the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, apologized on Tuesday for past attacks on Republicans on social media, which have been a focus of opposition to her nomination from members of the party.

Sweden plans to restrict the number of passengers on longdistance trains and buses in an effort to prevent a pickup in new COVID19 cases and the spread of mutations of the virus that could be more infectious, the government said on Tuesday.

Jose Luis Espinoza had been chasing a COVID19 vaccine for more than three weeks.

Opponents of Myanmar's military coup vowed to continue nonviolent action on Tuesday in the face of bans on big gatherings, night curfews and road closures after the biggest demonstrations in more than a decade.

The Senate has overwhelmingly voted to confirm President Joe Bidens pick to oversee the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The best defense against emerging variant strains of COVID19 is getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible, top U.S. infectious disease doctor Anthony Fauci said on Monday.

Thikran Kamiran Yousif was 15 when Islamic State fighters surrounded his village in northern Iraq, rounded up residents and slaughtered several hundred of them, including his father, brother, grandfather and aunt.

The United States will participate as an observer in the U.N. Human Rights Council, which it quit in June 2018 under the Trump administration, while seeking reforms, a U.S. envoy told the Geneva forum on Monday.

There is still some hope that the AstraZeneca and Oxford COVID19 vaccine will prevent severe disease from the South African variant of coronavirus, according to the professor who found it had limited impact on mild disease.

Ecuadorean economist Andres Arauz on Sunday won a first round victory in the country's presidential election, moving the Andean nation a step closer to socialism following years of austerity measures made more painful by the pandemic.

Thousands of protesters backed by Tunisia's powerful labour union gathered in central Tunis on Saturday in the country's biggest demonstration for years, defying a police lockdown that blocked roads in a large area of the capital.