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U.S. sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of Russian S400 missile defence systems would backfire and hurt ties between the two NATO members, a senior Turkish official said on Thursday.

U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden chose Susan Rice, who was national security adviser to former President Barack Obama, on Thursday to lead the White House's domestic policy council as part of a flurry of appointments to his developing administration.

Finland's nuclear safety authority said on Thursday that radiation levels had risen following an incident at the Olkiluoto 2 nuclear unit in western Finland but there was no radioactivity leakage outside and the situation was under control.

Acting on suggestions from hospitals, doctors and patients, U.S. health officials are proposing changes to medical privacy rules that could ease information sharing in crisis situations.

Pope Francis' Christmas Eve Mass will start two hours earlier, the Vatican said on Thursday, allowing even the limited number of people who can attend to get home by a 10 p.m. Italian curfew to contain the coronavirus.

The engines were restarted just seconds before landing in an effort to slow the ship, but the starship crashed hard into the Earth.

Allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro won 91% percent of the legislature's seats following a vote on Sunday that was boycotted by the opposition and disavowed by the United States and the European Union.

Amnesty International accused Airbnb of acting in bad faith towards investors ahead of its stock market debut on Thursday by failing to inform them of its politically sensitive business activities in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Ghana's President Nana AkufoAddo has won a second fouryear term in office, the election commission said on Wednesday, following a tightly contested vote that was tainted by violence in which five people died.

Texas drew support on Wednesday from 17 other U.S. states in its longshot bid to have the Supreme Court overturn President Donald Trump's election loss by throwing out the voting results from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Polands lawmakers are to vote late Wednesday on a noconfidence motion against Deputy Prime Minister and ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

German biotech firm BioNTech said on Wednesday that regulation documents related to the COVID19 vaccine it is developing with Pfizer were "unlawfully accessed" after a cyberattack on Europe's medicines regulator.

The Pentagon's initial allotment of coronavirus vaccine will be administered at 16 defense sites in the United States and abroad, with health care workers, emergency service personnel and residents of military retirement homes getting top priority, offici...

China said on Wednesday that it will take measures to uphold the rights of Chinese companies, in response to the United States blacklisting companies and ships accused of breaking sanctions on North Korea.

Reports that Eritrea has sent troops over the border into Ethiopia to help fight rebellious forces in Tigray have fuelled fears of wider instability in the Horn of Africa.

The Philippines has received 1.4 billion pesos ($29 million) worth of military equipment from the United States, its defence minister said on Tuesday, part of efforts to bolster the country's external defence and counter terrorism capabilities.