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Cashstrapped Cuba is opening more foreign currency outlets selling food, personal hygiene products, electrical appliances and other items in short supply, irritating locals who are paid in pesos.

The estimated reproduction "R" number of COVID19 in Britain has fallen to 1.01.2 and might be below 1 in some parts of the country, the Government Office for Science said on Friday, a sign that the spread of the disease is slowing.

Political turmoil over the resignation of Turkey's once powerful finance minister has a silver lining for President Tayyip Erdogan, offering a chance to ease tensions in his ruling party over the influential and divisive figure.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex will ask for a threemonth delay for upcoming regional elections, normally set for March 2021, due to the spread of the COVID19 pandemic, which has led the country to impose a second national lockdown.

Morocco will clear the main highway linking Western Sahara to Mauritania that has been blocked since Oct. 21 by supporters of the Polisario independence movement, it said on Friday.

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk questioned the accuracy of COVID19 tests on Thursday after claiming that results showed he tested positive twice and then negative twice all on the same day.

Democrat Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, beating President Donald Trump, after a longerthanusual process of counting mailin ballots that a record number of Americans relied on during the coronavirus pandemic.

New Zealand reopened downtown Auckland on Friday after contact tracing of a new coronavirus case revealed it was linked to a known case from a border isolation facility, reversing an earlier call for people to work from home.

Differing approaches have emerged amongst the Trump siblings: Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are telling their father to aggressively fight to the end, echoing baseless claims that the election has been rigged and the outcome should change. Ivanka Trump...

Under California law, the vacancy would be filled up by Governor Gavin Newsom for the remaining two-year term of the Senate seat. State media is reporting various names, including that of Khanna, that are being considered by Newsom to fill up the vacancy.

The election of Democrat Joseph Biden could create more headaches for the Dakota Access Pipeline's (DAPL) owners, who are already embroiled in legal battles to keep the main conduit for flowing oil out of North Dakota running.

Israel will sign a provisional deal with Pfizer Inc on Friday to receive 8 million doses of the drugmaker's stillexperimental coronavirus vaccine as of January, the Israeli health minister said.

The Nicaraguan parliament, controlled by the party of leftist President Daniel Ortega, on Thursday approved a reform that will open the door to the privatization of drinking water services in the Central American nation.

When Joan Martin heard that Joe Biden had been declared the winner of the presidential election, the retired nurse and avowed supporter of President Donald Trump was deeply unsettled. To steel herself, she thought about how her household weathered Hurrica...

Armenia's airspace remains open to civil aircraft, the Civil Aviation Committee head said on Thursday, denying a report by Russia's Interfax news agency that Armenia had declared a nofly zone over its territory and NagornoKarabakh.

This week has seen a flurry of good news from COVID19 vaccine developers, with Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE trumpeting early data indicating their mRNA candidate is more than 90% effective.