Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has corrected statements he had made in parliament, regarding a political funding scandal that has also cast a pall over the current premier.

Former Japan PM Abe apologises, corrects statements on funding scandal

After UK, South Africa, another coronavirus variant emerges in Nigeria Another variant of coronavirus has emerged in Africa’s most populous country, after distinct mutants of the virus have been reported from the UK and South Africa over the last few days | READ MORE US lawmakers block Trump's changes to coronavirus aid package US lawmakers have rejected President Donald Trump's demand for extensive changes and leaving benefits for millions of Americans at risk in the $2.

Morning news brief: New coronavirus variant, aid package in US, and more

The US government will require all airline passengers arriving from the United Kingdom to test negative for COVID-19 within 72 hours of departure starting Monday amid concerns about a new coronavirus variant that may be more transmissible.

US to impose COVID-19 screening requirement for UK flights

President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted pardons to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former adviser Roger Stone, sweeping away the most important convictions from U.

Can anything stop Trump from pardoning his family or even himself?

A COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech is 91.25% effective, the interim data from a late-stage trial in Turkey has said. Researchers in Brazil, which is also running a final Phase III trial of the vaccine, said on Wednesday the shot was more than 50% effective, but withheld full results at the company's request, raising questions about transparency.

China's Sinovac COVID vaccine 91.25% effective in late trials, Turkey says

Hong Kong extended a compulsory quarantine by an extra seven days to 21 days for all visitors outside China, effective Friday, in stepped-up efforts to prevent a new variant of the novel coronavirus from spreading.

Hong Kong imposes 21-day quarantine for visitors, adds South Africa to banned list

Iran has said the United States approved its fund transfer to buy coronavirus vaccines from overseas as its daily death toll fell to a three-month low. Central Bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati Thursday said an Iranian bank had received backing from the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control to transfer the money to a Swiss bank to pay for the vaccines.

Iran says has won US approval to transfer funds to buy Covid vaccines

More than 600,000 people in the United Kingdom have received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine since inoculations began in the country. Earlier this month, the United Kingdom became the first country in the world to roll out the vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech.

Over 600,000 people in Britain get first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine jab

US lawmakers have rejected President Donald Trump's demand for extensive changes and leaving benefits for millions of Americans at risk in the $2.3 trillion coronavirus aid and government spending package.

US lawmakers block Trump's changes to coronavirus aid package

The suspected Russian hackers responsible for the worst US cyber attack in years leveraged reseller access to Microsoft Corp services to penetrate targets that had no compromised network software from SolarWinds Corp, investigators have said.

Russian hackers used Microsoft vendors to breach customers, investigators say

Boko Haram jihadists killed at least seven people in a Christmas Eve assault on a village in Nigeria's restive northeast, local sources told AFP Friday. Security agencies had in recent days warned of an increased risk of attack during the Christian holiday.

Boko Haram kills seven in Christmas Eve attack

The youngest victim of the 2007 massacre in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, committed by Blackwater mercenaries whom Donald Trump pardoned Tuesday, was a 9-year-old boy named Ali Kinani.

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