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Prince William and his wife Kate visited Scotland and northern England on Monday at the start of a whirlwind train tour of Britain to meet and thank frontline workers, care home staff and teachers for their efforts during the COVID19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal from parents in Oregon who want to prevent transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they identify, rather than their sex assigned at birth.

Former Hong Kong democracy lawmaker and activist Ted Hui, who fled to Britain after facing criminal charges, said some of his bank accounts had been unfrozen and he had moved funds swiftly from HSBC, adding he no longer trusted the global bank.

The chief adviser for U.S. efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine said on Sunday he planned to meet with Presidentelect Joe Biden this week to discuss the program before the expected first round of vaccinations in the country later this month.

A manager and a former employee of Leonardo were arrested on Saturday for their alleged role in hacking the Italian defence group's computers to steal sensitive information between 2015 and 2017, prosecutors in the southern city of Naples said.

The Pentagon said Friday it is pulling most U.S. troops out of Somalia on President Donald Trump's orders, continuing a postelection push by Trump to shrink U.S. involvement in counterterrorism missions abroad.

The Pentagon has appointed two close allies of President Donald Trump to a defense advisory board, continuing a postelection purge in the final weeks of the administration.

Qatar's foreign minister said on Friday there has been movement on resolving a bitter diplomatic dispute among the Gulf countries but he could not predict whether a breakthrough was imminent or would fully resolve the matter.

Researchers at the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which co-developed the drug, studied the immune response of 34 adult participants, young and old, from the first stage of a clinical trial.

United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres on Thursday decried countries without naming any who rejected facts about the coronavirus pandemic and ignored guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO).

A 10foottall metallic monolith appeared mysteriously atop a Central California mountain this week, then vanished just as suddenly early on Thursday in what seemed to be a copycat of one that appeared and then vanished in a Utah desert.

Over 1.5 million people have lost their lives due to COVID19 with one death reported every nine seconds on a weekly average, as vaccinations are set to begin in December in a handful of developed nations.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has issued rules to restrict travel to the United States by members of China's ruling Communist Party and their families, in its latest move to push back against Chinese activity in the country.

President Donald Trump will award the nation's highest civilian honor on Thursday to former college football coach and political ally Lou Holtz.

Bahrain's imports from Israel will not be subject to distinctions between products made within Israel and those from settlements in occupied territory, the Bahraini trade minister said on Thursday, drawing a rebuke from the Palestinians.

Prosecutors have asked Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to report for voluntary questioning in a case they are building against his secretary over unreported political funds involving as much as 40 million yen ($382,848), media said on Thursday.