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Ecuadoreans choose a new president on Sunday, with many voters weary of painful economic austerity measures and eager for a return to socialism, encouraging leftwing candidate Andres Arauz who hopes to win without needing a runoff vote.

After celebrating their ATP Cup triumph as teammates for Russia, Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev will go their own ways at the Australian Open next week and may meet at Melbourne Park as rivals in the quarterfinals.

Officials in Brazil's São Paulo, where a prominent medical research institute carried out a large study of the vaccine made by Beijing-based Sinovac, had in January said the inoculation had an efficacy rate of 78%.

President Joe Biden is heading back to his home in Delaware on Friday to spend the weekend with his wife and family, even as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that Americans forgo travel because of the coronavirus pandemic.

About twothirds of Republicans say Joe Biden was not legitimately elected president, according to a new poll conducted barely two weeks after he was inaugurated.

Brent crude prices are approaching $60 a barrel, a oneyear high, driven in large part by OPEC+ cuts that are set to keep the oil market in deficit this year.

A probe into public spending on coronavirus in South Africa has found evidence of political pressure, price inflation, and fraud in many of the contracts, fuelled by an "insatiable pursuit of selfenrichment", a report showed on Friday.

Ecuador on Sunday holds elections for president and legislature in which voters will choose between maintaining the marketfocused policies of the last four years or returning to the socialist policies in place during the preceding decade.

Two weeks after Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first woman to be vice president , her barrierbreaking career has been memorialized in a portrait that depicts her face emerging from the cracks in a massive sheet of glass.

A prominent Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim publisher who criticized the armed Hezbollah movement was shot dead in a car in southern Lebanon on Thursday, the first such killing of a highprofile activist in years.

The sounds of baby coos and teenage giggles punctuate the lessons at Serene Haven Secondary, a school nestled into a hill below cloudringed Mount Kenya.

The World Health Organization is deploying teams across Syria for a vaccination programme that will be rolled out both in governmentheld areas and territory outside state control, perhaps as soon as April, it said on Wednesday.

Chicago schools have postponed inperson classes for another day for thousands of students after the thirdlargest district in the U.S. failed to reach an agreement with the teachers union on a COVID19 safety plan.

The charges faced by Coy, a 19-year veteran of the force, also include dereliction of duty for failure to use his body camera and for failing to tell the other officer he believed Hill presented a danger.

British Parliament's Petitions Committee will consider a Westminster Hall debate in the House of Commons complex on the issue of farmers protests and press freedom in India after an online petition attracted over 106,000 signatures. While the list of sign...

Britain's health minister defended the country's COVID19 vaccine rollout strategy on Wednesday, saying the science supported a decision to give the shot developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca to all age groups.