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The WHO said Friday that coronavirus pandemic effects would be felt for decades as its emergency committee assessed the situation six months after sounding its top alarm over the outbreak.

The UK government on Friday won permission to appeal against a court ruling allowing London-born ISIS bride Shamima Begum to return to Britain to challenge stripping of her British citizenship.

In years before the coronavirus, millions of pilgrims from across the globe would flock to Islam's holiest site to attend hajj, one of the world's biggest religious gatherings. However, with a virus-induced ban on large gatherings in place, only a few thousand people attended the rituals of this year's scaled-down hajj pilgrimage.

Britain will "put the brakes on" easing lockdown rules for at least two weeks following a rise in coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Friday.

The new leader of New Zealand's opposition National Party -- nicknamed "Crusher Collins" after her spell as a hard-line police minister -- will need all her resolve to beat Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the Sept. 19 election.

Organising this year's scaled-down hajj required "double efforts" by Saudi authorities amid the coronavirus pandemic, King Salman said Friday after being discharged from hospital following gall bladder surgery.

China rejected on Friday charges that hackers linked to its government targeted biotech firm Moderna Inc, a leading US-based coronavirus vaccine research developer, to steal data.

Documents about dealings between Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were publicly released on Thursday by a US court, where the British socialite faces criminal charges she aided the late financier's sexual abuse of girls. Among the materials released were email correspondence between the pair in early 2015, including an email in which Epstein told Maxwell she had "done nothing wrong."

The Trump administration has taken a series of steps to prevent the abuse and fraud in the employment-based visa programs, including changing the cap selection process for the H-1B, the most sought-after work permit among Indian IT professionals, a top US immigration official has told lawmakers.

US President Donald Trump is likely to travel to New York to attend the annual UN General Assembly session in September, the only world leader to address this year's virtual high-level week in person, the US envoy to the UN said.

Australia unveiled a draft law Friday to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a "world-leading" initiative sure to prompt a confrontation with the digital giants.

Former president Barack Obama delivered a call to action in his eulogy Thursday of late congressman John Lewis, urging Congress to pass new voting rights laws and likening tactics by President Donald Trump and his administration to those used by racist Southern leaders who fought the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

The Maryland woman had just wrapped up a virtual happy hour on Facebook, drinking a couple beers on the porch while her infant daughter and 4-year-old slept. She changed the baby's diaper, pumped breastmilk, took out the trash and locked the doors before climbing into bed next to her baby girl.

Children younger than five carried major amounts of coronavirus in their upper respiratory tract, a small study published on Thursday showed, raising new questions about whether kids can infect others.

The four chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google on Wednesday faced a five-hour deluge of probing and pointed questions from a Congress accusing the companies of various anticompetitive behaviors.