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Germany must do more to reduce high COVID19 infection rates among teenagers and young adults but wants to keep its schools open, Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff was quoted as saying by the RND newspaper group on Friday.

Patriarch Irinej, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, has died aged 90 after contracting COVID19, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday.

New daily cases of COVID19 in Canada could soar to 60,000 by the end of the year, up from less than 5,000 now, if people increase their daily contacts, the country's top medical official said in a grim forecast on Friday.

An unidentified gunman took up to nine people hostage at a microfinance organisation in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Friday, the police said.

Germany reported a record number of new coronavirus cases on Friday, upping the pressure on leaders of the country's 16 federal states to implement stricter restrictions favoured by Chancellor Angela Merkel to tame a second wave before Christmas.

Authorities in Central America recovered more bodies on Thursday from landslides triggered by hurricane Iota, which battered the impoverished region this week, the second deadly storm to roar through this month.

A Pentagon official installed in a top policy job last week has tested positive for COVID19, the Pentagon said Thursday, just days after he met with the Lithuanian defense minister, who had contracted the virus.

Ahmed has spent his political career abusing India, not just being critical of it. To this end, he had roped in supporters of terrorism in Kashmir, and some straggling Khalistanis on every platform he could find -- or set up.

The Cabinetlevel head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will visit Taiwan, the island's premier said on Friday, in what will be the third visit by a senior U.S. official since August.

Canada is on track to record 20,000 new cases of COVID19 per day by the end of December, several media outlets reported late on Thursday, citing new modelling data which is set to be released on Friday.

Joe Biden has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, an extraordinary victory for Democrats who pushed to expand their electoral map through the Sun Belt.

The acting United Nations Libya envoy pressed the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to blacklist anyone who obstructs peace efforts after the warring parties agreed a ceasefire and Libyan participants in political talks set a date for elections.

G20 leaders holding a virtual summit this weekend must help close a funding gap to buy vaccines, drugs and tests to combat the COVID19 pandemic, a letter from South Africa's president, Norway's prime minister, the WHO chief and the European Commission Pre...

Joe Biden's meeting Thursday with a group of Democratic and Republican governors is his latest attempt to fight through President Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt to block the presidentelect's transition to power.

Hungary cannot accept the European Union's budget and postCOVID recovery package in its present form as it amounts to "blackmail", Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff reiterated on Thursday.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chanocha threatened on Thursday to use all laws possible against protesters, as demonstrations escalate for his removal and for reforms to curb the powers of King Maha Vajiralongkorn.