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Novavax Inc's manufacturing capacity is sufficient to meet the U.S. demand for COVID19 vaccines in 2021, which it believes could be as high as 500 million to 600 million doses, company executives said on Monday.

Mexico's coronavirus death toll passed the 53,000 mark on Monday as the health ministry reported 705 additional fatalities and 5,558 new cases of infection, pushing the country closer to the government's most negative scenarios.

An explosion near the Jraischan border crossing at the IraqiKuwaiti border on Monday evening targeted a convoy carrying equipment for U.S. forces, three Iraqi security forces told Reuters.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday slammed China for the arrest of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who he said was a "patriot," and said the move indicated that Beijing is unlikely to change its position on the financial hub.

If El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and the countrys congress cant reach an agreement in the next two weeks on how to regulate the countrys economic reopening amid the pandemic, it will fall to individual businesses and their customers.

Gunfire erupted inside the main prison in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, an inmate said.

As Zardari could not appear in the court due to "illness", the indictment was carried out through video link, which was the first such indictment in the judicial history of the country.

North Korea's Red Cross has deployed 43,000 volunteers to help communities prevent outbreaks of the coronavirus and provide flood assistance, an official with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Monday.

Germany's Social Democrats on Monday proposed Olaf Scholz, the finance minister and their most popular politician, to run to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's national election, when her fourth and final term is expected to end.

Greek emergency services were clearing debris and searching for people potentially still trapped by floodwaters Monday after flash floods sparked by a storm on the island of Evia left seven people dead and one missing over the weekend.

Sri Lanka, one of the very few countries in Asia to hold a General Election amidst the pandemic, has reported 2,844 coronavirus cases, including 2,579 recoveries and 11 fatalities.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr mounted an partisan attack on the Democratic Party in an interview that aired Sunday, claiming the left believes in "tearing down the system" and pursues absolute victory as "a substitute for religion."

Yemen's Houthi rebels said Sunday that floods have swept through rebelheld parts of the country since midJuly amid heavy seasonal rains, leaving more than 130 dead and damaging more than 260 homes.

Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French tourists and two Nigeriens in a wildlife park in Niger on Sunday, a senior official said.

A car crash on Sunday left at least nine people dead and seven others injured north of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the staterun news agency said.

An Afghan grand assembly, known as the Loya Jirga, on Sunday approved the release of 400 "hardcore" Taliban prisoners, a decision endorsed by President Ashraf Ghani, paving the way for peace talks between the government and the insurgents aimed at ending...