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Ukrainian police are investigating reports that some citizens have been illegally inoculated against COVID19 with vaccines that have not been officially approved, and charged up to 3,000 euros per dose, senior officials said on Wednesday.

The criticalcare wards of major hospitals in Peru and Bolivia stand at or near collapse after endofyear holidays, reflecting wider regional public health capacity concerns as much of Latin America struggles to secure adequate COVID19 vaccine supplies.

Oil prices extended gains on Wednesday, rising to their highest since late February, after Saudi Arabia announced a big voluntary production cut, and as an industry report showed U.S. inventories fell last week.

Upstart cable network Newsmax late on Tuesday projected that Democrat Raphael Warnock had won one of two U.S. Senate seats in the state of Georgia in a nail biter of an election that other news channels said was too close to call.

Over 50 Hong Kong prodemocracy activists were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of violating the city's national security law, local media reported, in the biggest crackdown yet against the opposition camp under the contentious new legislation.

About 62,000 turkeys and ducks will be slaughtered after bird flu was found on more poultry farms in Germany, authorities said on Tuesday.

Teachers at Istanbul's Bogazici University protested on Tuesday against the swearingin of a new rector appointed by President Tayyip Erdogan, extending demonstrations started by students.

China has said it would revoke the licences of two humanrights lawyers involved in the case of 12 Hong Kongers whom mainland authorities arrested at sea and accused of trying to flee to Taiwan, according to the two lawyers.

The governors of New York and Florida sought to accelerate the slowerthanexpected rollout of coronavirus vaccines by warning hospitals on Monday that they would reduce future allocations to those that fail to dispense shots quickly enough.

Paralysed and severely malnourished, sevenyearold Faid Samim lies curled up on a hospital bed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, having barely survived the journey there.    "He was almost gone when he arrived but thank God we were able to do what was necessary...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday he would impose tougher restrictions on England shortly to contain a rapidly escalating coronavirus outbreak and indicated that secondary schools may not reopen this month.

No ballots, including absentee ballots received in advance of Election Day, can be counted until the polls close. But a state election board rule requires county election officials to begin processing absentee ballots verifying signatures on the outer env...

The Southeast Asian country has previously agreed to get a Russian vaccine though also said it would not rush to secure vaccine deals, citing the potential for high financial costs and after managing to contain its coronavirus outbreaks to only 1,494 cas...

A London court will deliver a ruling on Monday on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges.

OPEC sees plenty of downside risks for oil markets in the first half of 2021, its secretary general said on Sunday, a day before meeting allies led by Russia to discuss output levels for February.

Thailand's government held off from ordering new nationwide business shutdowns on Sunday amid a new wave of coronavirus cases but empowered some provincial governors to set their own restrictions and pleaded with the public not to travel.