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Hamad's ACT-Wazalendo party announced in January that the 77-year-old had been hospitalised with the virus.

Emmitt Willis remembers the heat of the gun that had just fired a few inches from his back. He remembers waiting to see if he felt pain and fearing another shot might come.

Its hard to pin down exactly when Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo started dreaming up Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, but on some level its decades in the making. The friends and Oscar-nominated screenwriters have been drawn to middle aged characters go...

The videos released by the BBC show Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum at a jail villa, apparently located in the skyscraper-studded city-state in the United Arab Emirates. Her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, also serves as the prime m...

A court in Bangladesh sentenced to death five members of an Islamist militant group on Tuesday for killing a U.S. blogger critical of religious extremism six years ago.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to help Guinea get the vaccine for the Ebola virus. This vaccine has helped in controlling the spread of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

South Korea has arranged to buy coronavirus vaccines for 23 million more people, its prime minister said on Tuesday, a day after authorities decided to scale back initial vaccination plans, citing delays and efficacy concerns.

At least three rockets landed near Erbil International Airport in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, wounding three people, Kurdish Peshmerga sources said on Monday.

Turkey summoned the U.S. ambassador to Ankara on Monday to convey "in the strongest terms" its reaction to a statement on the killing of 13 Turks captured by Kurdish militants, which President Tayyip Erdogan called "a joke".

Australia and New Zealand have received their first COVID19 vaccine deliveries and will begin rolling out inoculations in the coming week, while populous cities of Melbourne and Auckland remained locked down following the emergence of new cases.

The latest to join the list is US Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Indian-American to hold the post.

Several cases of Covid-19 were also detected in Auckland three weeks ago, before being traced back to a hotel where the people had completed quarantine after arriving from overseas.

Meghan and Harry, 36, who is Queen Elizabeth II's grandson, quit frontline royal duties in March last year and now live in California.

Kosovo's antiestablishment party Vetevendosje is set to win Sunday's parliamentary poll, preliminary results showed, further complicating Western efforts to resolve the country's decadeslong territorial dispute with Serbia.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed a "significant milestone" on Sunday as data showed 15 million first doses of COVID19 vaccinations had been delivered, fuelling calls for the government to start relaxing stringent lockdown measures.

Dancing, drinking and fighting marked the easing of some COVID19 restrictions in Poland over the weekend as tourists, many without masks, let off steam in the ski resort of Zakopane.