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For more than four years, President Donald Trump has dominated the Republican Party and the whole of American politics. Now Georgia gets to decide what comes next.

South Korea expanded a ban on private gatherings larger than four people to the whole country, and extended unprecedented social distancing rules in greater Seoul as the number of daily cases bounced back to more than 1,000 in four days.

Rebel fighters in Central African Republic attacked and partially occupied a diamondmining town on Sunday, four security and humanitarian sources said, a day before authorities are due to declare results of the presidential election.

Thailand's government held off from ordering new nationwide business shutdowns on Sunday amid a wave of coronavirus cases but empowered some provincial governors to set their own restrictions and pleaded with the public not to travel.

A car bomb exploded in a vegetable market in the northeastern Syrian town of Ras al Ain close to the border with Turkey, with reports of several killed and wounded, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Saturday.

The pharmacist, an employee of Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wisconsin, at the time that 57 vials of vaccine were found left out of cold storage earlier this week, has since been fired but has not been publicly identified.

Microsoft said Thursday in a blog pos t that hackers tied to a massive intrusion of dozens of U.S. government agencies and private companies snuck farther into its systems than previously thought, although the intrusion doesn't appear to have caused any...

The Sydney Opera House fireworks soared into the sky, but the harbour below was empty as a ghost town, a fittingly creepy sendoff for a year that will not be missed.

Israel is juggling supplies and pace in its COVID19 vaccination drive in the hope of meeting a lateJanuary goal of full protection for its most vulnerable people, officials said on Thursday.

The unprecedented cyber attack on U.S. government agencies reported this month may have started earlier than last spring as previously believed, a U.S. senator involved in cybersecurity said on Wednesday.

Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus.

China has struggled to gain international trust for its vaccine candidates, hindered by a lack of transparency on test results.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Tuesday initial data from an ongoing study of its experimental antibody cocktail for use in some hospitalized COVID19 patients show the therapy was sufficiently effective to warrant continuing the trial.

The Canadian province of Quebec on Tuesday urged the federal government to require COVID19 testing for residents returning from yearend vacations, after images of maskless tourists frolicking on overseas beaches hit social media as cases rose.

Family of a U.S. Army special forces sergeant charged in a deadly shooting at a northern Illinois bowling alley released a statement Tuesday extending their thoughts and prayers to victims and the wider community.

The Russian military said three of its troops were wounded Tuesday in an attack by militants in northwestern Syria.