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Ukrainian lawmakers on Friday approved a draft law that would restore accountability for false asset declarations by officials, improving the government's chances of securing more foreign aid for an economy battered by the COVID19 pandemic.

Hong Kong's Legislative Council approved on Friday engineering and infrastructure studies for a government plan to build vast artificial islands in an effort to solve housing problems in one of the world's most expensive property markets.

Hungary still cannot accept a clause on respecting the rule of law attached to the European Union's budget and coronavirus recovery fund, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, adding that the issues should be dealt with separately.

IBM and U.S. officials are sounding the alarm over hackers targeting companies critical to the distribution of COVID19 vaccines.

Britain will set a more ambitious target to cut emissions to help meet international climate goals, aiming for at least an 68% reduction from 1990 levels by 2030 compared with 57% currently, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

Kane Williamson reached his 22nd test century in Kane Williamson style Friday on the second day of the first cricket test between New Zealand and the West Indies.

Villagers in Guatemala's Mayan hillside hamlet Sanimtaca had been about to harvest their cardamom crops that take three years to grow when waves of floodwater triggered by two tropical storms last month washed them away.

Life in Lebanon has become so difficult for Syrian refugee Ahmad, he says he recently contemplated suicide.

On Jan. 1, 2020, as the world welcomed a new decade, Chinese authorities in Wuhan shut down a seafood market in the central city of 11 million, suspecting that an outbreak of a new "viral pneumonia" affecting 27 people might be linked to the site.

The Trump administration is rolling out sweeping changes to the test immigrants must take to become U.S. citizens, doubling the number of correct answers needed, injecting hints of conservative philosophy and making the test harder for many learners of th...

OPEC and Russia have moved closer to a compromise over oil supply policy for 2021 after talks earlier this week failed to yield a decision on how to tackle weak oil demand amid a second coronavirus wave, OPEC+ sources told Reuters.

Ghana holds a presidential election on Dec. 7 in what is expected to be a twohorse race between the incumbent, President Nana AkufoAddo, and the leader of the main opposition party, former president John Mahama.

The Spanish government agreed with regional authorities on Wednesday that a maximum of 10 people per household will be allowed to gather for the Christmas and New Year holidays to avoid spreading the coronavirus, Health Minister Salvador Illa said.

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been granted emergency authorisation by British regulators, and the first doses are expected to be rolled out from early next week.

Rain has delayed the start of the first cricket test between New Zealand and the West Indies at Seddon Park.

Hungarian politician Jozsef Szajer has quit Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz party after fleeing a lockdown party in Brussels via a gutter, daily Magyar Nemzet reported on Wednesday.