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Rochester, New Yorks former police chief alleges the citys mayor pressured him to lie about her handling of the police killing of Daniel Prude, which was kept from the public for six months, and that she fired him because he refused to do so.

A federal prisoner scheduled to be executed just days before Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus, his lawyer said Thursday.

U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden plans to nominate Michael Regan, North Carolina's top environmental regulator, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, according to three sources with knowledge of the discussions.

Speaking at his annual marathon end-of-year press conference, Putin began by striking a conciliatory tone towards Western countries, with which Russia has seen its relations in recent years reach its lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

Once an early adopter of the coronavirusproof 'namaste' greeting, French President Emmanuel Macron was showing signs of letting his guard down almost a year into the pandemic.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has tested positive for the coronavirus, an agency spokesman said.

U.S. congressional negotiators were haggling on Wednesday over details of a $900 billion COVID19 aid bill that is expected to include $600$700 stimulus checks and extended unemployment benefits, as a Friday deadline loomed, lawmakers and aides said.

The wealthy owners of Americas Cup sailing teams in New Zealand might miss the chance to see those teams in action because they are unable to obtain places in New Zealands managed isolation facilities.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus and will be quarantining although he has tested negative, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.

Ali Riza Polat was convicted of complicity by the court, which also gave a 30-year jail sentence in absentia to Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of one of the attackers. She fled to Syria in the wake of the killings.

The first lady was diagnosed with Covid-19 at the same time as President Donald Trump in early October.

Saudi Arabia is detaining hundreds of mainly Ethiopian migrants in squalid conditions in Riyadh, Human Rights Watch said, quoting some as saying they had been tortured or beaten, and that at least three had died since October.

Somalia severed diplomatic relations with neighbouring Kenya on Tuesday, accusing it of meddling in politics as protests and gunfire erupted in the capital Mogadishu over delayed elections.

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For Nabil alKurd, being forced out of the East Jerusalem home he has lived in since the 1950s would be a fate worse than death.

Long queues have been forming outside food banks and help centres in Italy's financial capital Milan as the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus has deepened before Christmas.