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Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell said the world's smallest state risked slowly "going broke" unless it tamed ballooning deficits, and expressed hope his successor would be spared the resistance to reform that he said thwarted him.

The Trump administration on Tuesday escalated steps to rein in Irans activities in the Middle East and North Koreas efforts to evade international sanctions with new penalties against both nations and proxies.

The United States plans to impose terrorismrelated sanctions on Hasan Irlu, Iran's ambassador to the Houthis, and on AlMustafa International University, a U.S. official told Reuters on Tuesday.

The Trump administration sought to shore up the U.S. vaccine supply on Tuesday as a 90yearold British woman became the first person outside of trials to receive the Pfizer COVID19 vaccine.

Jocelyn Benson, Michigan's top election official, had just finished hanging Christmas decorations with her young son on Saturday night when a crowd demanding November's presidential election result be reversed gathered outside her home to denounce her as...

In picking Austin, who would be the first Black US secretary of defense, Biden bypassed Michelle Flournoy, who would have been the first woman defense secretary and had been seen as the leading contender for the job.

A Saudiled coalition fighting in Yemen said on Monday it had intercepted and destroyed an explosiveladen drone launched towards the kingdom by Yemen's Houthi group, in a statement carried by Saudi state news agency SPA.

Some 3,000 to 5,000 Hungarians could participate in clinical trials of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID19, Hungarian Human Resources Minister Miklos Kasler said on Facebook on Monday.

During his travels, Giuliani has been seen frequently without a mask: on Wednesday, he was at the Michigan state assembly in Lansing with his face uncovered for a hearing that lasted more than four hours.

President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for COVID19, Trump said on Sunday, after the former New York mayor's crosscountry efforts to persuade Republican state lawmakers to help reverse the president's election defeat.

Public health guidance to avoid big parties in the age of coronavirus is about to collide with what is typically one of America's biggest celebrations of all: the swearingin of a new president.

South Korea on Sunday reported 631 new coronavirus cases, the highest in nine months, ahead of an expected government decision on whether to further tighten social distancing curbs as health authorities struggle to contain a third wave of outbreaks.

The departing Trump administration has ended five culturalexchange programs with China that it says were being used for Chinese propaganda and had no benefit to the United States.

Firefighters have made some progress reining in a blaze in a Southern California canyon, but faced more high winds and low humidity on Friday that threatened to stoke the flames which had forced thousands to leave their homes.

COVID19 case numbers dropped in England during its second national lockdown, Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday.

Hungary still cannot accept a clause on respecting the rule of law attached to the European Union's budget and coronavirus recovery fund, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, adding the political rules should be dealt with separately.