LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday ordered England into a new national lockdown to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases that threatens to overwhelm parts of the health system before a vaccine programme reaches a critical mass.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran has resumed 20% uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility, the government said yesterday, breaching a 2015 nuclear pact with major powers and possibly complicating efforts by U.S.
CALGARY, Alberta, (Reuters) – Eight Canadian politicians resigned or were demoted yesterday after travelling internationally over the Christmas holidays despite urgings from government officials to avoid non-essential trips during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil made a diplomatic push yesterday to guarantee an Indian-made shipment of British drugmaker AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, hoping to avoid export restrictions that could delay immunizations during the world’s second-deadliest outbreak.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from sanctioning human rights lawyers for supporting the work of the world’s war crimes tribunal, the International Criminal Court.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Georgia’s top election official said yetserday that President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, had pushed him to take an “inappropriate” call in which he pressured the state to overturn his November presidential election defeat there.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department yesterday issued a new license allowing certain transactions with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido despite U.S.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – President-elect Joe Biden urged Georgia voters yesterday to send two Democrats to Washington in Tuesday runoffs that will decide control of the U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ruling socialist party will today install a congress controlled by allies of President Nicolas Maduro, a change in control that many Western nations have assailed as the product of a fraudulent election.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s absence from public view in the past two months, including missing the final episode of a TV show on which he was to appear as a judge, has fueled social media speculation over his whereabouts amid a Chinese regulatory clampdown on his sprawling business empire.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain began vaccinating its population with Oxford University and AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot today in a world first, racing to give protection to the elderly and vulnerable as a new surge of cases threatened to overwhelm hospitals.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A British judge ruled today that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges including breaking a spying law, saying his mental health problems meant he would be at risk of suicide.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s top election official to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in the southern state, according to a recording of the hour-long call published by U.S.
(Reuters) – A Venezuelan member of the Pemon indigenous group accused of aiding a raid on a military post in late 2019 died yesterday in a jail close to capital Caracas, rights group Penal Forum said in a tweet.
(Reuters) – The federal investigation into the bombing in Nashville on Christmas day has uncovered evidence suggesting the suspected bomber believed in aliens and lizard people, according to a senior law enforcement source.
CUTHBERT, Ga., (Reuters) – Control of the U.S. Senate – and with it, the likely fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s legislative agenda – will be on the ballot on Tuesday when voters in Georgia decide twin runoff elections.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Experts at India’s drugs regulator have recommended for emergency use two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other backed by a state-run institute, the government said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz yesterday said he will spearhead a drive by nearly a dozen Republican senators to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory when Electoral College results are tallied in Congress on Jan.