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Eight Chinese bomber planes and four fighter jets have entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan's air defence identification zone.

Biden administration signals it will maintain tougher stance on China

Australia may not fully reopen its international borders this year even if most of the population is vaccinated against coronavirus, the head of its health department said on Monday as the country recorded zero local COVID-19 cases.

The U.S. State Department said on Friday that it had new evidence that may point to coronavirus emerging from a laboratory in Wuhan. The report also hinted that researchers at the Chinese lab might have been infected with COVID-19 before the first identif

China's Jeff Bezos has disappeared and he may have only himself — and his rockstar ways — to blame.

Merkel's spokesperson called the removal of Trump

The Vatican told Roman Catholics on Monday that it was morally acceptable for them to use COVID-19 vaccines, even if their production employed cell lines drawn from tissues of aborted fetuses.

'So the Vatican presepe has been unveiled....turns out 2020 could get worse,' art historian Elizabeth Lev tweeted.

Suspected armed bandit reportedly invaded a government secondary school in Kastina state, killing a security guard and kidnapping some students, according Sahar

The much-touted University of Queensland-CSL coronavirus vaccine is being abandoned because people who get it return false-positive results for HIV, leaving the team behind the work "devastated" and the public disappointed.

Here's what happened to NHS staff with allergies who took the vaccine.

Culture has been a unique way different people live their lives. There are different countries with various tribes in Africa and each have their own unique char

Patients who flocked to the Eluru government hospital complained of symptoms of seizures, vomiting, giddiness and severe headache, officials have said. The cause of the sickness is yet to be ascertained.

The European Union and the UK have all but finalised terms on the level of access for EU boats to seas within the UK's 200-mile exclusive economic zone, a major breakthrough in the Brexit negotiations on the rights of European fleets to fish in UK wat

Public Health England warned that their numbers did not prove that someone had caught the virus at the supermarket, only that they had visited in the seven days before testing positive.

Vladimir Putin is planning to step down next year as speculation swirls in Russia that the longtime president may have Parkinson's disease, a report said Thursday. Moscow political scientist Valery Solovei told The Sun that the Russian strongman's

Generally speaking, the Lithuanians don’t take much interest in defence matters. We know we’ve got armed forces, but what they’re doing generally passes average civilians by. We usually pay attention to defence matters only in case of real war or when defence demands more money then we could

The Vatican offered nuance to Pope Francis' recent, widely-criticized remarks regarding same-sex civil unions, claiming that they were taken out of context and were not intended to change Church teaching. "More than a year ago, during an interview

Pope Francis appeared to break from the Roman Catholic Church when he came out in support of same-sex civil unions — sparking curiosity Wednesday about whether his beliefs could be flawed. In his statement, The Holy Father proclaimed "we have to

Pope Francis endorsed gay civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for a feature-length documentary that made its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday.Pope Francis endorsed gay civil unions for the first time as pope whil