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The Netherlands was set to enter an even stricter lockdown as forecasts of heavy snow and strong winds on Sunday triggered the country's first nationwide weather alert in nine years.

Around a hundred activists rallied in downtown Beirut on Saturday to protest the killing of prominent Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim and to demand a transparent investigation.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on companies on Friday to share manufacturing facilities to help ramp up the production of COVID19 vaccines.

A member of the World Health Organizationled team visiting the central Chinese city of Wuhan said he has been surprised by the complexity of getting to the origins of the COVID19 pandemic and that years of research lay ahead.

The German government welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden's announcement that his administration would suspend any planned troop withdrawals from Germany in another sign of thawing relations between Washington and Berlin.

The Kremlin on Friday described comments on Russia made by U.S. President Joe Biden the previous day as aggressive and unconstructive, but said it hoped the two countries could set aside their differences and cooperate where it made sense.

A U.S. warship sailed near the Chinesecontrolled Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea on Friday in a freedom of navigation operation, the U.S. Navy said, the first such mission under President Joe Biden's new administration.

Hong Kong has unveiled controversial guidelines for schools in the Chineseruled city that include teaching students as young as six about colluding with foreign forces and subversion as part of a new national security curriculum.

Home for Palestinian Barakat Mour is a hillside cave in the West Bank, which he says is often under threat from Israeli settlers in the occupied territory.

Governments and developers around the world are exploring the potential use of "vaccine passports" as a way of reopening the economy by identifying those protected against the coronavirus.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison discussed how they can work together to deal with China and a recent military coup in Myanmar, the White House said on Thursday.

The coup was a dramatic backslide that highlighted the extent to which the generals have ultimately maintained control in in the Southeast Asian country.

More people are now vaccinated against COVID19 than have been infected by the virus that has swept the globe over the past year, a milestone on the road to ending the pandemic, based on data reported on Wednesday.

Russian journalist Sergei Smirnov said on Wednesday he had been jailed for 25 days in connection with a protest in support of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

The United Kingdom demanded a twoyear extension to grace periods for checks on goods going between Britain and Northern Ireland on Wednesday as European Union and British officials met to discuss problems over border arrangements following Brexit.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to requests from the Biden administration to put off arguments in two cases involving the U.S.Mexico border wall and asylumseekers because President Joe Biden has taken steps to change Trump administration policies th...