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The nation's overall death toll from COVID-19 has eclipsed 380,000, according to Johns Hopkins University, and is closing in fast on the number of Americans killed in World War II, or about 407,000.

Following are comments on the U.S. House of Representatives vote on Wednesday on the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

The Vatican, the world's smallest state, began its own ambitious COVID19 vaccination program on Wednesday but it was still not clear when Pope Francis would roll up the sleeve of his cassock and get his jab.

European shares were mixed on Wednesday and the dollar rebounded, while the 10year U.S. Treasury stabilised below its 10month high as markets focused on U.S. inflation data.

Britain's minister in charge of COVID19 vaccinations said once everyone in the top priority groups had been reached, he favoured moving onto groups such as teachers and the police rather than bringing forward second doses.

More than 6,000 people in Singapore have received their first dose of a COVID19 vaccine, the health ministry said on Wednesday, with numbers expected to rise substantially in the coming weeks as the citystate ramps up its immunisation drive.

More than a million people in southern Madagascar will need food aid this year as the effects of drought have been made worse by the COVID19 pandemic, the U.N. World Food Programme said.

Germany will not be able to lift all measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus at the beginning of February, Health Minister Jens Spahn said, stressing the need to further reduce contacts to fend off a more virulent strain of the virus.

In a tweet on YouTube’s official account, the Google-owned video site said it had suspended Trump’s account after one of his recent videos violated its policy banning content that spreads misinformation about widespread election fraud.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with whether to revive a lawsuit brought by a Georgia college student who sued school officials after being prevented from distributing Christian literature on campus.

The Latest on the fallout of the attack of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump loyalists (all times local):

An Irish inquiry into alarming death rates among babies at churchrun homes makes clear that unmarried mothers faced a "stifling, oppressive and brutally misogynistic culture" for decades, the country's children's minister said on Tuesday.

Mexico's health authorities will move quickly to authorize the use of Russia's Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine, Deputy Health Minister Hugo LopezGatell said on Tuesday.

Trump and Pence "reiterated that those who broke the law and stormed the Capitol last week do not represent the America first movement backed by 75 million Americans," the official said.

An Irish inquiry into alarming death rates among newborns at churchrun homes for unwed mothers will hand down its final report on Tuesday, laying bare one of the Catholic Church's darkest chapters.