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A fresh outbreak of infections in Australia's coronavirus hot zone of Victoria eased further on Wednesday, while the country agreed a deal to secure a potential COVID19 vaccine that it plans to roll out costfree to citizens.

Seoul officials said Yang Jiechi, a state councilor and member of the Communist Party Politburo, will be in the southern port city of Busan on Friday and Saturday.

Japans exports plunged 19.2% in July from a year earlier, as the coronavirus pandemic sapped global demand for goods from the third largest economy, government data showed Wednesday.

After reaching a deal for the country to manufacture a "promising" vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, Morrison said.

The atmospheric pattern stoking California's recordbreaking heat wave this week has also played a role in causing extreme lightning storms that have sparked scores of wildfires, weather and fire officials said on Tuesday.

The Democratic National Convention on Tuesday turned to the party's future leaders as well as its elder statesmen, including former President Bill Clinton, to make the case for presidential candidate Joe Biden in November's election against Donald Trump.

A Virginia state senator charged with damaging a Confederate monument said Tuesday that she will beat the case against her.

Flames are tearing through Brazil's Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, coming close to the region's main highway and threatening endangered species, as the area records the most fires in 15 years for the month of August so far.

A group recommending a new Mississippi state flag chose five final designs Tuesday three with a magnolia blossom, one with a magnolia tree and one with a shield that has wavy lines representing water.

Forprofit nursing homes in Connecticut had significantly more cases and deaths from COVID19 than nonprofit ones, according to an independent inquiry released on Tuesday that shed new light on the shortfalls of the state's pandemic response.

The French government plans to make wearing a mask compulsory in the vast majority of workplaces from Sept. 1 to try to stop a resurgence of the COVID19 pandemic.

German and Israeli fighter jets flew in formation past the site of the 1972 attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics on Tuesday in their first joint exercise in Germany.

A possible military mutiny was under way on Tuesday outside Mail's capital Bamako, the Norwegian Embassy and a security source said.

To achieve so-called herd immunity — the point at which the virus can no longer spread because there are not enough vulnerable humans — scientists have suggested that perhaps 70% of a given population must be immune, through vaccination or because they su...