It's very much a tradition that the Canadian prime minister and the US president meet very quickly to be able to talk about all the tremendous things that we can do together.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) revealed in December that it had been targeted in a major cyber attack that illegally accessed information relating to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna jabs.
Washington blacklisted seven entities and two individuals in sanctions related to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and Iranian shipping entities.
Lebanon said in mid-December it was expecting to sign a deal for supplies of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine and hoped to receive the first batch eight weeks after that.
The law includes a clause that points to the Lebanese health ministry as the only entity responsible for compensation.
In terms of policies for right now, very unusual for the IMF, starting in March I would go out and I would say: 'please spend'. Spend as much as you can and then spend a little bit more.
Georgieva praised Russia's synchronised response to the economic challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump had wanted to join the thousands of hardcore followers who assembled at Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.
Trump’s fiery, grievance-filled speech from the Ellipse park on the southern outskirts of the White House was a central focus of this week’s hastily arranged proceedings in the House of Representatives that led to his impeachment on a charge of inciting insurrection.
The Dutch government, led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte has resigned over the childcare subsidies scandal.
A report last month revealed that around 10,000 families in the Netherlands had been forced to repay tens of thousands of euros worth of subsidies, after being falsely accused of fraud.
Donald Trump has imposed on the Iranian economy to try to force Tehran into a new negotiation on curbing its nuclear program as well as its missile and regional activities.
Rutte said he had handed his resignation to King Willem-Alexander. The cabinet would remain in place in a caretaker capacity to manage the coronavirus crisis for now.
Many of the families were targeted based on their ethnic origin or dual nationalities.
Zuma, 78, has played cat-and-mouse with the commission since it was set up in 2018 to investigate looting of state coffers during his nine-year tenure.
He reappeared briefly before the commission in November to demand that the its chair, deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo recuse himself.
The militants launched simultaneous raids on the checkpoints in Kunduz, a region bordering Tajikistan that has seen regular clashes between the insurgents and government forces.
The insurgents have regularly attacked security forces in the province, often attempting to enter Kunduz city,
Santos Silva told the state-owned news agency Lusa late on Thursday he had requested a meeting with British foreign minister Dominic Raab to clarify the situation.
This is an absurd measure, and we don't understand what it is based on.
The United States military has met its goal of reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan to about 2500, as ordered by President Trump in November.
President-elect Biden has advocated retaining a small counter-terrorism force in Afghanistan, in an effort to ensure that extremist groups like Al-Qaeda are unable to launch attacks on the United States.
Laura Rosenberger, a State Department and White House veteran who was a foreign policy adviser to Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful 2016 presidential election campaign, will serve as senior director for China in Joe Biden’s White House.
Ties between the United States and China have plunged to the lowest level in decades in the last year of Donald Trump’s presidency.
British parliamentarian says we need international leaders and governments with the will to take action and stop genocide taking place in IIOJK
Seventy-four years on, the trajectory for the people of Kashmir is leading to a future far from a right of self-determination and closer to one of non-existence: Shah
The government is preparing to vaccinate all individuals over the age of 50 by mid- to late March, The Times reported on Friday citing Whitehall sources.
The Biden plan - if enacted - would buy more time for the economy to bridge the period until the distribution of vaccines allows for a wider resumption of economic activity.
Commenting on the report, opposition member of parliament Ed Miliband said the government's priorities were "out of step with the needs of workers and their families".
“We all lived through that day - January 6. And as the president made clear yesterday, we are committed to an orderly transition and to a safe inauguration. The American people deserve nothing less,” Pence said during his first public event since the attack that left five people dead.
The 66-year-old Zhong is currently ranked the 8th richest man in the world, according to a real-time index from Forbes, ahead of former Google head Larry Page and India's Mukesh Ambani.
It has sealed off entire cities throughout Hebei province, paying particular attention to the roads connecting Hebei to its neighbour, the Chinese capital Beijing. It is also tracking people who have travelled out of the province since December.
Lawyers for both men, citing medical experts who testified in court, say their damaged lung tissue would rupture more quickly than usual after lethal doses of pentobarbital, a powerful barbiturate, had been administered.
The financial bill that lawmakers will deliberate on in 2021 was one drafted by some members of parliament's financial committee alongside the government and submitted for review in November.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's government put priority on the coronavirus response and economic revival over fiscal reform as it has rolled out a combined $3 trillion in economic packages -- two-thirds the size of Japan's gross domestic product.
In November, a federal judge granted a US government request to drop drug charges against Cienfuegos and return him to Mexico, which called it a move that would restore trust in the neighbors' severely strained security ties.
Executives of state-owned enterprises, officials of the Chinese Communist Party and military, along with oil giant CNOOC will face new restrictions for allegedly using coercion against states with rival South China Sea claims.
Castex also told a news conference that there was no need for a new national lockdown for now but and that if the pandemic gets out of hand, France will lock down again.