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Canada will start receiving its first doses of Pfizer Inc's COVID19 vaccine before the end of December, sooner than expected, with millions more to follow in early 2021, officials said on Monday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will announce it will maintain an air quality standard governing soot pollution for five years rather than tighten it as agency scientists had recommended, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The bill, after its House and Senate versions were reconciled by a bipartisan Congressional conference committee last week, is slated to be passed by both the chambers of the Congress this week before it is sent to the White House for President Donald Tru...

President Donald Trump will present the nations highest civilian honor to Dan Gable, a renowned wrestler and coach from Iowa who won a gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Russia sentenced a former Ukrainian soccer player to 12 years in jail on Monday after convicting him of spying for Kyiv at a trial held behind closed doors, a court in Moscow said.

A Japanese space probe carrying the first extensive samples of an asteroid has completed its sixyear mission, landing safely in the remote Australian outback, Japan's space agency said on Sunday.

Romania holds a parliamentary election on Sunday, with the ruling centrists of Prime Minister Ludovic Orban maintaining a narrow lead in polls over the leftist Social Democrat Party (PSD).

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen instructed their negotiators to resume trade talks on Sunday in a last ditch attempt to bridge significant differences.

The head of a leading Egyptian human rights group who was held for two weeks on terrorism charges said on Saturday he hoped that the campaign to secure his release would help others still jailed on similar allegations.

Thousands of people gathered in Bangkok on Saturday to show their devotion to the Thai monarchy on the birthday of King Maha Vajiralongkorn's late father, after months of street protests led by a youth movement demanding reform to royal powers.

South Korea reported 583 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, down from the previous day's 629, which was the highest since a first wave peaked in February and early March.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Friday a resolution to a bitter dispute with Qatar seemed "within reach" after Kuwait announced progress towards ending a row that Washington says hampers a united Gulf front against Iran.

Iran plans to install hundreds more advanced uraniumenriching centrifuges at an underground plant in breach of its deal with major powers, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report showed on Friday, a move that will raise pressure on U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden.

Tuqqa Abdullah and her Iraqi family have wandered from one displaced people's camp to the next in the past three years, buying time and hoping they will one day be able to go home.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expects to move quickly after a Dec. 10 review of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and 20 million Americans could be vaccinated this year, its commissioner said on Friday.