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Prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was injured in an attack outside the capital Tehran on Friday and was being treated in a hospital, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen broke down on Thursday when visiting a mink farmer who lost his herd following the government's order this month to cull all 17 million mink in the country to curb the spread of coronavirus.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed a former Treasury official and management consultant as his chief of staff, as he tries to restore calm after a tumultuous period for Downing Street.

France has done a better job of flattening a second wave of COVID19 infections that some of its European neighbours but it would be premature to talk about an end to the lockdown, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday.

. Three other pupils were charged earlier this month with complicity over the beheading last month of Samuel Paty.

The U.S. Supreme Court late on Wednesday backed Christian and Jewish houses of worship challenging New York state's latest restrictions in novel coronavirus hot spots.

Six members of the Pakistan cricket squad in New Zealand have tested positive for COVID19 and have been moved from managed isolation into quarantine.

All adults should do a minimum of 150 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week, even more vital for wellbeing and mental health in the COVID19 era, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in its first guidance in a decade.

Presidentelect Joe Biden on Wednesday pleaded with Americans to take steps to remain safe over the Thanksgiving holiday as COVID19 cases soar, while President Donald Trump pardoned a former aide who had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

Iran has exchanged a jailed BritishAustralian academic, Kylie MooreGilbert, with three Iranians who had been detained abroad, Iran's state broadcaster IRIB reported on Wednesday.

Sinopharm previously told the daily that it had reported the phase-III clinical data to China's State Food and Drug Administration and was in the process of giving more detailed data, as requested.

In a congratulatory message, Xi told Biden that healthy and stable relations were the common expectation of the international community, according to a statement carried by the official Xinhua News Agency.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in South Korea for talks on Wednesday amid talk of a trip to Seoul by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

President of the Central Tibetan Administration Lobsang Sangay said the democratic system that his country follows, the office of the Sikyong, has also been recognised by the US now.

Thai protesters called on King Maha Vajiralongkorn to give up control of a royal fortune valued in the tens of billions of dollars on Wednesday as the latest in months of demonstrations focused squarely on the monarchy.

Oil rose for a fourth straight session on Wednesday as the market shrugged off an industry report showing U.S. crude stockpiles rose more than expected, extending a rally driven by hopes that a COVID19 vaccine will boost fuel demand.