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The Botswana scientist who may well have discovered the omicron variant of the coronavirus says he has been on a rollercoaster of emotions, with the pride of accomplishment followed by dismay over the travel bans immediately slapped on southern African co...

U.S. President Joe Biden will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin in their meeting that the United States is determined to stand resolutely against any reckless or aggressive actions that Russia may pursue and to defend the territorial integrity of Ukra...

Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron headed outside the space laboratory on Thursday, replacing a faulty antenna and restoring its capability.

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee lambasted the director of the beleaguered federal prison system on Thursday, saying he has no intention of reforming the institution and reiterating his call for the director to be immediately fired.

The Israeli doctor is one of the first to be infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus. He was in London for a medical conference attended by over 1,200 people.

The stricken diplomats, who are suing the government in Ottawa for taking too long to evacuate them and provide them with treatment, say the number is closer to 30 -- and rising.

Jonshel Alexander, a onetime child actress who played a supporting role in the 2012 Oscarnominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild, was killed in a weekend shooting in her native Louisiana. She was 22.

Michigan prosecutors on Wednesday charged a teen with terrorism in a deadly mass shooting at his high school, a novel approach made possible by a law enacted after the 9/11 attacks nearly 20 years ago.

Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before his first presidential debate in September 2020 with Joe Biden and days earlier than that diagnosis was previously disclosed, according to a book by Trump's former chief of staff.

Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador held a massive rally in Mexico City Wednesday to mark the midway point in his sixyear term amid polls showing that about twothirds of Mexicans approve of the job he is doing.

A key U.N. committee decided Wednesday to delay action on requests by Myanmars military junta and Afghanistans Taliban rulers to take their countries seats at the United Nations.

The NCDC said retrospective sequencing of previously confirmed cases among travellers to Nigeria had identified the Delta variant among a sample collected in October.

From the Gujarati delegation pressing for a British stamp at the Vibrant Gujarat event to UK stepping up its Covid third dose campaign, a roundup of what's making news.

Asked if any expansion of the travel restrictions to other countries could be made suddenly, as happened under former Republican president Donald Trump, Biden said: 'Unlike Trump I don't shock our allies.'

Since the summer, when the Taliban swept back into power, long-standing sanctions against the Islamists have deprived the new state of huge sums.

It was every sports bettor's dream: Being able to bet on a game after it had already ended.