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Trump issued a scattering of last-minute orders on Monday, most notably a lifting of the travel bans imposed due to coronavirus pandemic in Europe and Brazil.

Workers trapped in a Chinese gold mine for more than nine days received more medical and food supplies on Tuesday, including bandages, blankets and porridge, but one of the group is in a critical condition with a severe head injury, state media said.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asked Pfizer Inc Chief Executive Albert Bourla on Monday if the state could buy COVID19 vaccine doses directly from the U.S. drugmaker, a move that raised ethical questions by the U.S. health department.

Denmark may have to extend its current lockdown measures beyond early February despite a fall in COVID19 infections because a more contagious variant first identified in Britain is still spreading, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday.

Hong Kong will extend workfromhome arrangements for civil servants by a week until Jan. 27, the government said on Tuesday, as the global financial hub seeks to contain a rise in coronavirus infections into triple digits.

Guatemalan security forces on Monday cleared a road of hundreds of people in a mostly Honduran migrant caravan that had camped out overnight when authorities barred it from advancing toward the United States.

China reported more than 100 new COVID19 cases for a seventh day on Tuesday in the worst domestic outbreak since March last year, with one northeastern province seeing a record daily increase.

Germany's upper house of parliament called on Monday for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to extend a waiver on insolvency filings for firms hit by the coronavirus crisis.

Consultants working on England's test and trace scheme cost on average 1,000 pounds a day, an official involved in running the programme said on Monday, adding he had seen no signs of profiteering in their work.

Outgoing President Donald Trump, in a January 8 tweet, made it clear that he will not be attending the inauguration of his successor, breaking a longstanding tradition.

American Magic will miss the next round of racing in the Americas Cup challenger series after its dramatic capsize but the team is determined to be ready for the series semifinals in 11 days.

Biden's future chief of staff Ron Klain said Sunday that the overall death toll, now more than 396,000, could surpass 500,000 in February.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is due to fly back to Russia on Sunday for the first time since he was poisoned last summer, despite the authorities' stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years.

Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi named 12 new ministers on Saturday in a cabinet reshuffle he hopes will inject new blood into his government amid rising political tensions and an unprecedented economic crisis.

Government troops and several hundred residents were forced to flee after Islamist insurgents overran a town in northeast Nigeria, security sources told Reuters on Saturday.

Trump had already announced that he would not be attending Biden's inauguration breaking tradition after spending months making baseless allegations of voter fraud in an attempt to delegitimize Biden's presidency.