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Phil Walter/Getty ImagesIf the vaccines are proven to be safe and effective, the immunization campaign is expected to begin with border officers and other essential workers at the beginning of 2021. -
Hussein Malla/APThe individuals — three of whom were tried in absentia — were convicted of crimes including membership in a criminal network and complicity in the massacre at the publication and at a kosher market.
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Media that are supportive of leaders in Hungary, Poland and Slovenia either repeat the false claims or suggest President-elect Joe Biden is part of a vast liberal conspiracy to stifle conservatives. -
Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting for a ninth straight day. They accuse the government of using the coronavirus crisis to push through market-based changes without consulting them. -
Mass vaccinations will start less than a week after the U.K. approved the new drug. Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford says it could start "a long path back to normality." -
Seventy years on, war participants are drawing starkly differing conclusions from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The decisive conflict's lasting legacy is still visible on the Korean Peninsula. -
Amid criticism of the government's recent handling of the pandemic, the country is seeing more cases than at any other time in the past nine months. -
The remote island of Bhashan Char was first proposed as an option to move the Rohingya in 2015. The island is potentially unsafe for inhabitants given its cyclone- and flood-prone nature. -
Experts say low-risk people in the U.S. will likely be immunized before many high-risk people in poor countries.
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The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was developed fast. But a leading vaccine expert says it's important for consumers to know the companies "haven't cut corners" in the clinical science. -
Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq's Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. "It's a beautiful feeling to be home," says a Yazidi woman who recently arrived. -
The group had been expected to delay production increases for several months, given the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. But after days of deliberations it agreed on a small increase.
