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As President Vladimir Putin of Russia declared that his nation had approved the world’s first coronavirus vaccine without extensive clinical trials, public health experts worried that President Trump would feel the need to compete.

A majority of Scots support independence from the United Kingdom, a YouGov poll found on Wednesday, with support for nationalists bolstered by a much more positive view of how they have responded to COVID19 compared with London.

Wearing a face mask became compulsory on Wednesday in all public places in Brussels as the number of COVID19 infections rose to a government alert level that puts the city among the worst affected in Europe.

Japan's government and the city of Hiroshima have appealed a court ruling ordering them to certify dozens of people who were exposed to radioactive black rain in the aftermath of the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attack.

Australian police have arrested two men on suspicion of moving tens of millions of dollars of illicit drug money through a Sydneybased "daigou", a surrogate shopping business popular with Chinese.

U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar won the Democratic primary nomination on Tuesday to run for reelection in Minnesota's 5th district, defeating a wellfunded rival, Antone MeltonMeaux, and several challengers, the New York Times said.

Argentina's death toll from the coronavirus has topped 5,000, the government said on Tuesday, as cases have skyrocketed in recent weeks, pushing the South American nation up in the global charts despite months of lockdown and a promising start.

In a 4 1/2minute radio speech on Aug. 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender in World War Two, telling his subjects he had resolved to pave the way for peace by "enduring the unendurable".

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California would be his running mate in the Nov. 3 election.

A broken cable caused severe damage at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, causing a suspension of operations for one of the worlds largest singledish radio telescopes, officials said Tuesday.

The renewed spread of coronavirus in France could become harder to control without a collective effort to stop a rise in the infection rate, its prime minister said on Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of State did not fully evaluate the risk of civilian casualties when it pushed through a massive sale of precisionguided munitions to Saudi Arabia last year, a government watchdog's report said on Tuesday.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has interviewed the finalists to be his running mate and his campaign is readying to announce his choice as soon as this week, a person familiar with the process told Reuters.

Turkey will issue gas exploration and drilling licences in the eastern Mediterranean this month, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, further raising tensions with Greece, which said it would seek an emergency EU meeting to address the issue.

Sara Buie lined up a summer lifeguard job to help pay for a new laptop, textbooks and a backpack for her freshman year at Virginias James Madison University. But the coronavirus pandemic closed her community pool.

A Somali police officer says at least 19 people were killed during a riot in the central prison in Somalia's capital on Monday evening.