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Prosecutors in Guatemala said Tuesday they have filed more charges against a former anticorruption prosecutor who fled to the United States in July.

A quarantine-free entry policy for vaccinated arrivals in the Asian financial and travel hub will not be extended to more countries for now, while current social distancing measures will remain in place, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said.

Earlier in the day, Quebec discovered its first COVID-19 case of the variant, health officials said.

A hunter accidentally shot and killed his 11yearold daughter while they were hunting near their East Texas hometown, investigators said.

Infowars host Alex Jones' lawyers are trying to get his free speech defense and other claims before a jury to argue that he is not liable for damages for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax years ago.

Washington, Nov 29 (AP) After months of study, the Pentagon has decided no immediate major changes are needed in the global positioning of US forces, although it will further analyze force needs in the Middle East and make refinements in Asia and the Paci...

The countries affected by the ban are Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

In late 2020, the network detected a new virus lineage, 501Y.V2, which later became known as the beta variant.

Amid discovery of Omicron variant, the WHO has asked countries to enhance sequencing efforts to better understand circulating Covid variants

Merck released the full results of the drug's clinical trial Friday, which found the pill would reduce by 30 percent -- much lower than its initial figure -- the rate of hospitalizations and deaths in high-risk Covid patients.

In a bid to halt migrant trafficking, Mexico said Friday it will suspend a 17yearold program that allowed Brazilian citizens to enter without a visa.

Nigeria has designated armed groups blamed for hundreds of abductions and killings in northern areas as terrorist organizations, in a major swing in response to a key security challenge facing Africas most populous country.

Ethiopia has announced new restrictions on the sharing of information about the war in the north of the country which stipulate that battlefront updates can only come from the government.    "Disseminating information on military maneuvers, war front upda...

Hundreds of barges of illegal miners dredging for gold were navigating along the Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon on Friday, and researchers said they posed a threat of pollution including toxic mercury for the broader environment.

Singapore citizens and foreigners holding permanent resident status in the city-state of 5.5 million arriving from those countries can still enter, but will have to undergo a 10-day quarantine.

Britain has been among the hardest hit by Covid-19, with some 144,000 deaths since the start of the outbreak early last year.