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They join 90-year-old Margaret "Maggie" Keenan from Coventry as the very first in the world to receive her shot, followed by 81-year-old William Shakespeare in Warwickshire as the second.

Opposition demonstrators blocked streets in Armenia's capital on Tuesday to mark the start of a protest campaign after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ignored their call to step down over a ceasefire deal struck with Azerbaijan.

President Donald Trump and allies say their lawsuits aimed at subverting the 2020 election and reversing his loss to Joe Biden would be substantiated, if only judges were allowed to hear the cases.

Biden won the state with more than 12,000 votes, becoming the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the Peach State in nearly three decades.

Presidentelect Joe Biden's choices for his health care team point to a stronger federal role in the nations COVID19 strategy, restoration of a guiding stress on science and an emphasis on equitable distribution of vaccines and treatments.

The Supreme Court on Monday struggled with whether to allow two lawsuits stemming from claims of property taken from Jews in Germany and Hungary during the Nazi era to continue in U.S. courts.

A Democratic senator is calling on the State Department to prioritize the return of Mark Frerichs, an American contractor believed to have been taken by a Talibanlinked militant network in Afghanistan earlier this year.

Romanias centerright prime minister resigned Monday after a general election in which voters delivered nominal victory to the leftleaning, populist opposition party.

European Union leaders are unlikely to strike a deal on a new emissionscutting target for 2030 at a summit this week if they cannot also clinch an agreement on the bloc's next budget, a senior EU diplomat said on Monday.

China firmly opposes and strongly condemns U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo imposing sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) United Front Work Department, the foreign ministry said on Monday.

The International Day of Civil Aviation was established in 1994 to mark the International Civil Aviation Organization's golden jubilee activities.

Sharif, 70, the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) supremo, has been living in London since November last year after the Lahore High Court granted him permission to go abroad for four weeks for treatment.

Opposition candidates made gains in a parliamentary vote in Kuwait in which two thirds of MPs lost their seats and no women were elected, a result which analysts said could hamper government reform efforts to address a severe liquidity crunch.

President Donald Trump is pressing his grievances over losing the presidential election, using a weekend rally to spread baseless allegations of misconduct in last months voting in Georgia and beyond even as he pushed supporters to turn out for a pair of...

Japan has retrieved a space probe from Australia's remote outback after a sixyear mission that may help reveal more about the origins of the planets, the Asian nation's space agency said on Sunday.

Garaufis directed the Department of Homeland Security to post a public notice "displayed prominently" on its websites by Monday announcing that it is accepting new DACA applications. The judge also ordered that the notice make clear that employment author...