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An Israeli air strike over the Golan Heights killed three Syrian military personnel early on Wednesday, Syria's state news agency SANA said.

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United Nations aid chief Mark Lowcock said on Tuesday he would use $100 million from the world body's emergency fund to help seven countries try to avert famine fueled by conflict, spiraling economies, climate change and the COVID19 pandemic.

Czechs on Tuesday marked more than three decades since the Velvet Revolution peacefully toppled communist rule with scaledback gatherings, virtual candle lighting and online concerts as coronavirus lockdown rules limited events this year.

In a wide-ranging conversation, Dr Gounder he discussed plans to prioritize racial inequities, to keep schools open as long as possible, and to restore the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the premiere public health agency in the world.

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longestserving Republican senator, says he is quarantining after being exposed to the coronavirus.

The European Commission convened with Polish officials on Tuesday to attempt to win support for a tougher European Union climate change target, after the country requested more analysis of the goal.

U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden may revise plans for a major troop drawdown from Germany announced by the administration of President Donald Trump over the summer, German Defence Minister Annegret KrampKarrenbauer said on Tuesday.

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou laid a wreath at the empty Athens Polytechnic University on Tuesday to honour the dozens killed during a bloody 1973 student uprising against the then military junta.

The coronavirus situation in Germany is still very serious even though infection numbers are not rising so fast, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday, after federal and state leaders postponed until Nov. 25 a decision on further lockdown measures.

The Trump campaign dropped a defamation lawsuit against a small Wisconsin TV station that aired an advertisement opposing Donald Trump's reelection bid that featured verbatim quotes from the president.

The United States recorded more than 1 million new COVID19 cases last week as new infections rose in every state except for Hawaii, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county reports.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday there had been 65 coronavirus infections among staff at its Geneva headquarters since the start of the pandemic.

Armenian refugees who fled a sixweek war between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces have begun to return home to NagornoKarabakh to try to rebuild their shattered lives after Russia last week brokered a peace deal over the enclave.

In the face of conclusive evidence that he lost, President Donald Trump is claiming I won.

Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan resigned from his post on Monday in a sign of political fallout in the exSoviet republic after a ceasefire in the NagornoKarabakh conflict that locked in territorial gains for Azerbaijan.