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Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin may face another challenge to his leadership on Tuesday, if the opposition in parliament seeks to block a third and final vote to pass the government's 2021 budget.

Washington's decision to remove Sudan from a list of state sponsors of terrorism comes into effect on Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum said.

Oil prices rose on Monday, pushing Brent back above $50 a barrel, buoyed by hopes that a rollout of coronavirus vaccines will lift global fuel demand while a tanker explosion in Saudi Arabia jangled nerves in the market.

Hundreds of Indian nationals live and work in Nigeria, especially in the pharmaceutical sector.

A court in Iran has handed a nineyear jail sentence to BritishIranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady, after convicting him of conducting "subversive" research work, the semiofficial news agency Tasnim said on Sunday.

With Pfizer Inc's and BioNTech SE's COVID19 vaccine distribution imminent after U.S. authorization on Friday, top regulators sought to reassure Americans that the record fast pace was warranted and had not sacrificed safety.

Their dwindling majority in peril, House Democrats are entrusting their campaign operations to an analytical, openly gay moderate whos been an attorney, businessman and fivetime winner in his competitive congressional district.

Japan saw more than 3,000 new infections of the novel coronavirus for the first time in one day on Saturday, public broadcaster NHK reported, as the number of cases continues to rise in the winter.

Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of fomenting violence during antigovernment protests in 2017, was executed on Saturday, Iran's state television reported.

President Donald Trump has been highlighting lots of really big numbers this week: New highs for the stock market. The 100plus House members backing a lawsuit challenging his election loss. The nearly 75 million people who voted for him.

The United Nations Security Council discussed on Friday human rights abuses in North Korea after the issue was raised by seven members who accused Pyongyang of using the coronavirus pandemic "to crack down further on the human rights of its own people."

Five key genes are linked with the most severe form of COVID19, scientists said on Friday, in research that also pointed to several existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat people who risk getting critically ill with the pandemic disease.

Switzerland on Friday ordered restaurants, bars and shops to close from 7 p.m. across most of the nation, as the country faces a persistently high level of coronvirus infections and deaths.

A mounting U.S. death toll has tempered enthusiasm about the coming COVID19 vaccine with 9/11like fatalities projected every day for the months ahead, even with a rapid rollout of inoculations, which could start as soon as Monday.

European Union countries agreed a new climate change target for the bloc on Friday after haggling through the night in Brussels, pulling the political trigger on a policy revamp to make every sector greener.

The United States is poised to impose sanctions on Turkey over its acquisition last year of Russian S400 air defense systems, five sources including three U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday, a move likely to worsen already problematic ties between th...