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Three people were killed when an abandoned bomb exploded in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa on Sunday, a state news agency reported.

A new national lockdown is not inevitable in Britain to stop the spread of a new variant of coronavirus, health minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday, adding that tighter restrictions in London and southeast England should help curb the disease.

British health minister Matt Hancock suggested on Sunday that new tighter restrictions in London and southeast England could stay in place for some time, saying a new variant of the coronavirus that has emerged is very difficult to control.

The quake in the region of Qotur in Iran’s West Azerbaijan struck at a shallow depth of 5 km (3 miles), IRNA said.

Netherlands will ban flights carrying passengers from the United Kingdom from Sunday as Britain detected a new coronavirus strain.

Italy will be placed under nationwide lockdown for much of the Christmas and New Year holiday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Friday, as the government looks to prevent a fresh surge in coronavirus cases.

The nation is scrambling to expand vaccinations as rapidly as Moderna and Pfizer can churn out doses. Moderna's is for people 18 and older, Pfizer's starts at age 16.

Austria will go into a third coronavirus lockdown after Christmas that will last until Jan. 18, several Austrian media outlets including national news agency APA reported on Friday.

Six people suffering from COVID19 have died in South Korea this month while waiting for hospital beds and hundreds can not get admitted as surging coronavirus infections overload the health system, officials and media said on Friday.

Australian states and territories on Friday begun imposing border restrictions after 28 COVID19 cases were detected from a cluster on Sydney's northern beaches, with fears the number of infections will rise.

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block an order by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear that bars inperson K12 education until early January in areas hard hit by COVID19, rejecting a plea from a private religious school.

The family of a 19yearold Black man who died in police custody two years ago in a rural town on Marylands Eastern Shore filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against two police chiefs, two officers, the states Office of the Medical Examiner and others.

New Jersey lawmakers passed a measure Thursday setting up a recreational marijuana marketplace, sending the legislation to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, who is expected to sign the bill.

Japanese health authorities say it is difficult to determine the efficacy of Fujifilm Holdings Corp's antiviral drug Avigan as a treatment for COVID19, Kyodo News reported on Thursday.

Wednesday was not a good day for superstitious Neapolitans.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday reported 16,519,668 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 201,776 from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 2,960 to 302,992.