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Jackline Bosibori wept when she found out she was pregnant. The 17yearold's mother, who is raising six kids alone, collapsed in their oneroom home. They had been repeatedly threatened with eviction and couldn't afford another mouth to feed.

India has slammed Pakistan for its decision to hold elections in Gilgit-Baltistan and said any action to alter the status of the militarily-occupied region has no legal basis.

Soldiers unloaded sandbags and monks donned khaki vests over their cassocks on Sunday after Russian peacekeepers arrived to guard the 12th century Armenian Dadivank monastery in territory due to be ceded to Azerbaijan within days.

The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy since September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that COVID19 might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought.

South Korea reported 208 new coronavirus cases as of Saturday midnight, marking the eight straight day of tripledigit increases, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said on Sunday.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin told his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Saturday to take care of Christian shrines in parts of NagornoKarabakh that Azerbaijan gets under this week's ceasefire agreement, the Kremlin said.

Restrictions aimed at slowing a surge in coronavirus cases will be extended in various Italian regions, with both Tuscany and Campania set to be designated as highrisk "red zones", the health ministry said on Friday.

The United States on Friday urged Japan and South Korea to speak out against China's treatment of minority Muslims and its actions toward Hong Kong and Taiwan, despite their trading relationships with Beijing.

The compliance of OPEC+ with oil production cuts in October was seen at 101%, three OPEC+ sources told Reuters on Friday, maintaining a strong level of adherence to their supplycut pact.

Sweden, whose unorthodox virusfighting strategy has garnered global attention, registered a record 5,990 new COVID19 cases on Friday, the highest since the start of the pandemic, Health Agency statistics showed.

President Donald Trump wont be on the ballot in January when Georgia voters settle two Senate runoffs that will determine control of the U.S. Senate. But both Republicans and Democrats are hoping voters forget that.

Australia will not allow foreign students to return as Canberra prioritises the return of locals stuck overseas, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.

England beat Ireland for the first time since 1985 as goals by Harry Maguire, Jadon Sancho and Dominic CalvertLewin secured a 30 win in a friendly at an empty Wembley Stadium on Thursday.

Chris Coons- the Democratic U.S. senator from Delaware, Biden's home state, is a close Biden friend and adviser who is a prominent member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Thousands of people carrying candles and flowers gathered in Minsk on Thursday to mourn the death of a 31yearold antigovernment protester who they say was badly beaten by Belarusian security forces and died in hospital.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday said the kingdom would continue to strike with an "iron fist" those who threatened its security and stability.