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The results confirmed that receiving the vaccine reduced the risk of developing Covid-19 by 95 percent compared to not receiving it, and that no serious side effects could be attributed to the drug.

Italian prosecutors said on Thursday they had wrapped up their investigation into the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016, and named four members of Egypt's security forces as possible suspects.

Iran has blacklisted the U.S. ambassador in Yemen, the Iranian foreign ministry said on Wednesday, a day after Washington imposed terrorismrelated sanctions on Tehran's envoy to the Yemeni Houthis.

Four people have been charged with the toppling of a statue of a slave trader in the English port city of Bristol in an incident which sparked a major debate about Britain's imperial past earlier this year.

The Trump administration said Wednesday that it will allow migrants from six countries to extend their legal U.S. residency under a temporary status for nine months while courts consider its effort to end the program.

Britain's medical regulator said on Wednesday it was urgently examining reports of two serious adverse reactions to the PfizerBioNTech COVID vaccine among people who have a history of allergies.

Britain's medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergic reactions do not get PfizerBioNTech's vaccine after two people reported adverse effects, England's National Health Service (NHS) said on Wednesday.

Aboriginal sacred sites have come under the global spotlight since Rio Tinto Ltd legally blew up ancient rock shelters showing human history stretching back at least 46,000 years to expand an iron ore mine.

President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday said he is feeling better after contracting COVID19 and expects to leave the hospital on Wednesday.

The U.S. election and cybersecurity official who was fired last month by President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday over threatening remarks by a lawyer for the president that prompted a wave of death threats against him.

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn, two weeks after a pardon from the president effectively ended the case.

Lethal injection is no longer an option for Ohio executions, and lawmakers must choose a different method of capital punishment before any inmates can be put to death in the future, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday.

He was associated with a private TV Channel for ten years as a cameraman and was running his own web channel. Police have launched an investigation into the incident.

The sister of a missing Thai prodemocracy activist presented evidence to a Cambodian court on Tuesday that she said showed her brother was in the capital Phnom Penh at the time of his alleged abduction by unknown gunmen.

Iran said on Tuesday its Supreme Court had upheld a death sentence against a highprofile dissident journalist who was captured last year in what Tehran calls an intelligence operation, after years in exile in France.

Much of California on Monday faced a raft of new restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID19, while a ban on indoor restaurant dining loomed in New York City as the United States braced for another surge during the upcoming holidays.