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China's foreign ministry said on Friday that it extended congratulations to U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden and VicePresidentelect Kamala Harris, who won the Nov. 3 election that President Donald Trump has refused to concede.

Experts have struggled to accurately measure a crucial metric in the pandemic: the fatality rate, or percentage of people infected with the pathogen who are likely to die.

Democrat Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, beating President Donald Trump, after a longerthanusual process of counting mailin ballots that a record number of Americans relied on during the coronavirus pandemic.

Federal health officials have reached an agreement with pharmacies across the U.S. to distribute free coronavirus vaccines after they are approved and become available to the public.

Germany's health minister said on Thursday he expects restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic will continue through winter, with life unlikely to get back to normal in December or January even if infections fall.

U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Thursday vaccine developers should push to make billions of their COVID19 vaccines to ensure access to all parts of the world, instead of focusing on the rich countries.

Dutch police on Thursday said they had arrested a suspect after the embassy of Saudi Arabia in the Netherlands was sprayed with gunfire before dawn earlier in the day. No one was injured.

Hooker Leonardo Ghiraldini could make his first appearance for Italy in more than 20 months.

Oil prices fell on Thursday, snapping three consecutive daily gains, as traders tempered expectations of an early release of a COVID19 vaccine and the IEA raised doubts about a quick demand rebound amid surging infections in Europe and the United States.

The Gates Foundation added another $70 million of funding on Thursday to global efforts to develop and distribute vaccines and treatments against the COVID19 pandemic, saying it hoped other international donors would now also pledge more.

China has stopped the import of all timber from the Australian state of Victoria after customs officials said they had discovered pests, Australia said.

If neither presidential candidate wins at least 270 electoral votes, the House decides the election, based on the 12th Amendment to the Constitution.

North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis has won reelection to his U.S. Senate seat, confirming that Democrats must now win both runoff races in Georgia in January if they are to seize Senate control from the GOP.

As President Donald Trumps chances of reelection dwindled last week, his campaign began blasting out a nonstop stream of emails and text messages that led to a website raising money for an election defense fund to contest the outcome.

Figures from the British government showed that 595 more people in the country died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus, the highest daily number since May. The figure took the U.K.’s total death toll in the pandemic to 50,365.

The police chief for the Mexican Caribbean state of Quintana Roo has been pushed out in the continuing fallout from shots fired during a protest in the vacation destination Cancun.