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An explosion caused by a steam pipe failure at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Haven, Connecticut, killed two people on Friday, a fire captain said.

Montenegro introduced a twoweek overnight lockdown on Friday to rein in a major spike in coronavirus infections, while neighbouring Serbia began fining people who fail to comply with the government's protective measures.

A law firm representing Republican President Donald Trump's campaign in challenging U.S. election results in Pennsylvania has withdrawn from at least one of the cases contesting ballots in the battleground state.

Even before Attorney General William Barr issued a memo that authorized federal prosecutors across the country to investigate substantial allegations of voting irregularities if they exist, the Justice Department had already begun looking into two specif...

Australia will not allow foreign students to return as Canberra prioritises the return of locals stuck overseas, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.

The vaccine was found to produce virus-neutralising antibodies and had a substantial effect on the elderly, Hunt said. "That is particularly so in the elderly, and that is an especially important outcome, given the glo

A White House press secretary who refers questions to the White House?

Oil prices fell on Thursday, weighed down by the surge in coronavirus cases that is hampering the global economy, along with an unexpected rise in U.S. crude stockpiles.

Black policy leaders will play a pivotal role in Presidentelect Joe Bidens transition, marking one of the most diverse agency review teams in history.

Tropical Storm Eta drenched Florida's west coast on Thursday after making landfall north of Tampa Bay with 50 mileperhour (80 kph) winds, but the system weakened slightly as it moved across the northeastern part of the state and into the Atlantic.

The Saudiled coalition intercepted and destroyed three explosiveladen drones launched towards Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Iranaligned Houthis, Saudi state TV said on Thursday.

Seven soldiers in Burkina Faso were killed on Wednesday in an ambush by suspected Islamist militants, two sources said, close to a week before a presidential election.

The proportion of contacts of positive COVID19 cases reached by England's test and trace system remains nears record lows, official figures showed on Thursday, although a growing number of infected people are being processed by the scheme.

Oil prices rose on Thursday, taking this week's gains to more than 12% on growing hopes that the world's major producers will hold off from a planned supply increase, though the advance was kept in check by doubts that demand will recover quickly.

U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Thursday that efforts are underway in the U.S. to push for the development of antivirals and other therapies for early intervention during the course of the COVID19 respiratory illness.

The leader of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region said government air strikes had killed an unspecified number of civilians in recent days and vowed to defend his people until federal authorities realise "we cannot be subjugated by their knife".