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Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has made no plans to host a summit of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies after cancelling a June gathering because of the COVID19 pandemic, three diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.

Canada, which has reserved enough doses to vaccinate residents against COVID19 several times over, is in talks with other governments about a plan to donate shots to lowerincome countries, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

Portugal has set up a taskforce to come up with a COVID19 vaccination strategy and hopes to be prepared to start distributing shots as early as January, Health Minister Marta Temido said on Thursday.

British counterterrorism police said on Wednesday they had arrested a man over the 1974 pub bombings in the city of Birmingham which killed 21 people, the deadliest attack on the British mainland in 30 years of Northern Irish violence.

Murthy, who currently is the top Indian-American advisor to President-elect Joe Biden on COVID-19, is a potential pick for the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services and Stanford University Professor Arun Majumdar for the post of Secretary of Ener...

A wealthy California couple were sentenced to prison time on Tuesday after admitting they paid $250,000 to fraudulently help their daughter gain admission to the University of Southern California as a volleyball recruit.

The Trump campaign has had difficulty retaining legal counsel to take on its post-election challenges including the Pennsylvania case.

President Donald Trump will sharply reduce the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500 before he leaves office, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday, stopping short of the complete withdrawal Trump threatened to carry out by Christmas.

The Palestinian Authority will resume civil and security cooperation with Israel suspended in May over a nowfrozen Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian minister said on Tuesday.

Britain and the European Union missed a midNovember deadline to seal a new trade deal before the end of the year, but negotiators are still pursuing an agreement, which Ireland's foreign minister has said could take two more weeks.

Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya called on European leaders to impose targeted economic sanctions on supporters of President Alexander Lukashenko after police stepped up violence against protesters.

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In a first for the Pentagon's push to develop defenses against intercontinentalrange ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States, a missile interceptor launched from a U.S. Navy ship at sea hit and destroyed a mock ICBM in flight on Tuesday,...

The development and availability of a coronavirus vaccine could improve the outlook for the battered tourism industry but it is unlikely to convince consumers to spend more money in the short term, a survey showed on Tuesday.

Belgium, population 11.5 million, has registered almost 540,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 14,000 deaths to date. Its death rate per million residents is one of the worst in Europe.

A former Harvard University fencing coach and the chief executive of a telecommunications company were arrested on Monday on charges they engaged in a bribery scheme aimed at securing the admission of the businessman's two sons to the Ivy League school.