China will consider joining a free trade pact once championed by the US but abandoned by Donald Trump, President Xi Jinping has declared. Xi made the announcement on Friday while addressing the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, as Beijing increasingly seeks to influence the global rules of commerce.

China is mulling joining trade pact dumped by Trump

Polls opened in Burkina Faso on Sunday in a presidential election dominated by jihadist violence, which has cost over 2,000 lives this year and will prevent voting in hundreds of villages.

Voting starts in Burkina Faso under looming threat of violence

Ethiopian forces carried out "precision led and surgical air operations" outside of Tigray's capital Makelle, the government's emergency task-force said on Tuesday.

Ethiopia carries out air strikes in Tigray, PM says surrender ultimatum over

A hiker, who was presumed dead, has been brought back to life -- despite his heart stopping for 45 minutes. Michael Knapinski, 45, got lost in Mount Rainier national park in the US in freezing conditions last weekend.

Hiker, 'dead' for 45 minutes, brought back to life

A senior Chinese official on Tuesday backed calls to "reform" Hong Kong's judiciary, in a landmark speech signalling Beijing's determination to assert more control over the city's independent legal system.

Chinese official backs Hong Kong judicial 'reform' calls

Iota made landfall Monday on Nicaragua's northern Caribbean coast as a maximum Category 5 hurricane, accompanied by catastrophic winds, rain and storm surge. As of 10:40 pm (0340 GMT Tuesday), it had dropped slightly to a Category 4, packing maximum sustained winds of 155 miles (250 kilometers) per hour.

Hurricane Iota weakens after making landfall in Nicaragua

A European space rocket failed minutes after taking off with the loss of both satellites it was carrying. The launch's failure is the second in as many years. The Vega light launcher, which would have placed Spain's first satellite into orbit, malfunctioned roughly eight minutes after launching from a space centre in Kourou, French Guiana.

European space rocket launch fails minutes after take-off

The United States' top infectious disease scientist on Monday hailed early trial results from Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine as "stunningly impressive," and said the findings were an emphatic validation of experimental mRNA technology that some had doubted.

Moderna vaccine results 'stunningly impressive,' Fauci says

Nov 17 in history: From naming of 14th Dalai Lama to patent of first computer mouse

US President-elect Joe Biden has expressed frustration over Donald Trump's refusal to cooperate on the White House transition process, saying "more people may die" of coronavirus without immediate coordination on fighting the surging pandemic.

Biden warns 'more people may die' if Trump doesn't cooperate with transition

The Solomon Islands may soon ban the use of Facebook for an indeterminate period after inflammatory critique of the government was aired on the social media platform.

Solomon Islands may ban Facebook after government criticism on platform

The Belgian government intends to make any coronavirus vaccine available to around 70 per cent of the population, some eight million people, and free of charge. Brussels expects the first vaccines to come on stream from early next year.

Coronavirus vaccine to be free in Belgium

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