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Patriarch Irinej, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, has died due to coronavirus, the country's President Aleksandar Vucic said on his official Instagram account on Friday.

Trump and his Republican allies are pressing forward with several cases aimed at blocking or delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states won by President-elect Joe Biden.

The European Union must only lift coronavirus restrictions slowly and gradually to avoid another wave of infections, the head of the bloc's executive said on Thursday.

A Malawi magistrate released selfproclaimed prophet and businessman Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary from custody on Thursday, saying the arrest of the couple, who face charges of moneylaundering, theft and fraud in South Africa, was illegal.

Greek police arrested a Syrian Islamic State suspect on Thursday after a brawl at a migrant camp where he has been staying with his wife and children and said he was believed to have been involved in a number of killings.

Lawyers plan to hold a news conference at Republican headquarters later on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet as he continued his longshot legal campaign challenging Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the Nov. 3 presidential election.

Ethiopia's military accused World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday of supporting and trying to procure arms and diplomatic support for Tigray state's dominant political party, which is fighting federal troops.

The sun is setting on the lake and thousands of cranes perform a mating dance, bobbing their black and white heads while flapping large grey wings and hopping on long legs.

Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed prisoners and civilians in Afghanistan, with senior commandos reportedly forcing junior soldiers to kill defenceless captives in order to "blood" them for combat, a fouryear investigation found.

Australia has made three changes to its starting side for a TriNations rugby test against a reinvigorated Argentina, which beat New Zealand for the first time last weekend.

U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico are expected to remain closed to nonessential travel until Dec. 21 at the earliest amid a rising number of U.S. coronavirus cases, officials in Washington and Ottawa told Reuters on Wednesday.

Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trump's scattershot effort to overturn Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chao...

U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico are expected to remain closed to nonessential travel until Dec. 21 at the earliest amid a rising number of U.S. coronavirus cases, officials in Washington and Ottawa told Reuters.

Canada on Wednesday identified statesponsored programs in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as major cyber crime threats for the first time, and said it feared foreign actors could try to disrupt power supplies.

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The school in the Matabeleland North province is the first to report a significant spike in infections since schools began re-opening for end-of-year examinations in September.