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Partial lockdown in Beijing as UK virus variant detected

BEIJING, China (AFP) -- 1.6 million residents were banned from leaving Beijing on Wednesday as two Covid-19 cases linked to…

Trump departs Washington for Florida on Air Force One

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- President Donald Trump left Washington on Air Force One on Wednesday three hours ahead of…

Biden to be sworn in as 46th US president, ending Trump era

  by Sebastian Smith and Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Joe Biden will be sworn…

Partial lockdown in Beijing over Covid-19 outbreak

  BEIJING, China (AFP) -- A partial lockdown was imposed on the Chinese capital Wednesday, with 1.6 million residents banned…

Trump pardons 73 people, including Steve Bannon, on last day

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned 73 people, including his former aide Steve…

Serbia starts vaccination with Chinese-made Sinopharm

BELGRADE, Serbia (AFP) -- Serbia launched on Tuesday a mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign and became the first European country to…

Israel extends Covid lockdown despite vaccination drive

JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) -- The Israeli government decided Tuesday to extend the country's coronavirus lockdown to the end of the…

US passes 400,000 deaths from Covid-19: Johns Hopkins

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- More than 400,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the United States since the pandemic…

Trump says he is first president ‘in decades’ with ‘no new wars’

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Donald Trump in a farewell address Tuesday said he was the first president in many…

Biden State pick agrees China committing Uighur ‘genocide’

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- President-elect Joe Biden's pick to be secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said Tuesday that he…

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