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The state news agency SANA carried an official government announcement but did not specify the cause of death.

South Korea reported more than 200 new coronavirus cases for the third consecutive day on Monday, as the government mulls tightening social distancing to curb persistent outbreaks from offices, medical facilities and small gatherings.

Iota has strengthened into a category 2 hurricane as it barrels toward Central America, a region still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Eta, and experts predict this year's unprecedented storm season will force more people to migrate.

Three members of the All Blacks squad in Australia are being released to return home, no longer needed with only one test remaining in the TriNations rugby series.

Opposition candidate Maia Sandu, who favours closer ties with the European Union, held a narrow lead over proMoscow incumbent Igor Dodon in a presidential election runoff in Moldova on Sunday.

Germans should brace for another 45 months of severe measures to halt the rise in coronavirus infections and should not expect the current rules to be eased quickly, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier told weekly Bild am Sonntag.

The United States and Israel worked together to track and kill a senior alQaida operative in Iran earlier this year, a bold intelligence operation by the two allied nations that came as the Trump administration was ramping up pressure on Tehran.

The Army on Saturday identified the five American soldiers killed in a helicopter crash this week while on a peacekeeping mission in Egypts Sinai Peninsula.

The Czech Republic reported 7,357 new coronavirus cases for Nov. 13 as daily infections continued to hold below recent peaks after weeks of tightened measures to combat the spread, Health Ministry data showed on Saturday.

Iran on Saturday denied a New York Times report that al Qaeda's secondincommand was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives at the behest of the United States.

Visitors to care homes in parts of England will be able to get tested for COVID19 under a new pilot scheme aimed at reducing onerous restrictions in time for Christmas, the health ministry said on Saturday.

Democrats won the popular vote in this year's presidential election yet again, marking seven out of eight straight presidential elections that the party has reached that milestone.

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Friday rejected an effort led by a Republican congressional candidate to block about 9,300 ballots that arrived after Election Day.

With cities and states across the United States reimposing restrictions this week to tame alarming surges in coronavirus infections and hospitalizations, a senior adviser to Presidentelect Joe Biden said on Friday there were no plans for nationwide lockdo...

Officials are investigating an explosion at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Haven, Connecticut that has caused multiple injuries, a spokesman for the state police said on Friday.

The head of the GAVI vaccine alliance expects to hold talks with the incoming team of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden about collaborating with the COVAX global facility, which has been set up to provide COVID19 vaccines to poorer countries.