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Some 270 million people worldwide equivalent to the combined populations of Germany, Britain, France and Italy stand on the brink of starvation, the head of the United Nations' World Food Programme said on Thursday upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

Belarus will close its land borders to its own citizens later this month to try to combat COVID19, the government said late on Wednesday, a move the country's opposition leader likened to imprisoning the population in a Stalinera prison camp.

The United States on Wednesday slapped sanctions on Wan Kuok Kai, the leader of China's 14K Triad organized crime group and a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the U.S. Treasury said.

Efficacy results may not be ready for months from a trial of AstraZeneca and Oxford University's coronavirus vaccine in South Africa, the principal investigator of the South African study told Reuters.

FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that it had been hacked, likely by a government, and that an arsenal of hacking tools used to test the defenses of its clients had been stolen.

After four years of President Donald Trump's administration being repeatedly accused of using government for personal profit, Biden's turn to a company with close defense industry ties has raised the same kinds of questions.

President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was recently hospitalized with COVID19, will attend a virtual hearing this week with Georgia lawmakers over Trump's flagging effort to overturn his U.S. election loss, a source said on Tuesday.

Germany inched towards stricter measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus on Tuesday, as an eastern region said it would close schools and most businesses and the health minister warned a partial lockdown had not stopped the disease.

Ethiopia said on Tuesday that there were fighters from the rebellious northern region of Tigray who had not been defeated, after the government declared its military offensive there over.

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock appeared to wipe tears from his eyes on live television on Tuesday as he spoke about the hope that the COVID19 vaccine rollout would bring after the doom and gloom of the pandemic.

Former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw and France star Jessy Trmoulire have been voted the mens and womens rugby players of the past decade.

U.S. Army leaders are expected to fire or suspend a significant number of officers and enlisted soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, in a dramatic purge to correct a command culture they believe failed to address leadership failures and a pattern of violence tha...

European Union foreign ministers evaluated grounds on Monday for sanctions against Turkey over a Mediterranean gas dispute before the bloc's leaders decide at a summit on Dec. 1011 whether to make good on their threat to impose punitive measures.

Prince William and his wife Kate arrived in Edinburgh on Monday at the start of a nationwide train tour of Britain to meet and thank frontline workers, care home staff and teachers for their efforts during the COVID19 pandemic.

Six suspected supporters of Indonesian Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab were killed in a clash with police on Monday, Jakarta police chief Fadil Imran told reporters.

Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler danced around questions about whether President Donald Trump lost the Nov. 3 election in a debate with her Democratic challenger on Sunday before two Georgia runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate.