Winter sports shut down in S Korea to check COVID-19 spread
Government also extends ban on gatherings of five or more people across country in attempt to stamp out third wave.
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The lingering trauma of Hong Kong’s exiled protesters
For Hong Kong activists now in exile, a year of dissent and despair has left emotional wounds they will carry for years.
Black US Air Force service members face discrimination: Report
Report finds that Black members of the Air Force have fewer opportunities than their white peers.
Harris, Ivanka Trump stump in Georgia ahead of Senate runoff
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris tells crowd 'everything at stake' ahead of crucial US Senate runoffs in Georgia.
Texas police release video of officer shooting Joshua Feast
A lawyer for Joshua Feast’s family, Ben Crump, says footage portrays 'a defenceless man who was shot in the back'.
Biden weighing plan to shield 1 million migrants from deportation
Sources say a final decision is expected only after Joe Biden takes office as US president on January 20.
US Congress poised to pass COVID relief bill
The $900bn stimulus package is aimed at boosting the economy and includes direct payments to Americans.
Jupiter and Saturn in rare celestial ‘Great Conjunction’
Solar system's two biggest planets come within planetary kissing range, an intimacy that won't occur again until 2080.
iCar? Apple eyes ‘next level’ battery tech for electric vehicles
Apple is targeting 2024 to produce a car that could include its own breakthrough battery technology, Reuters reports.
US sanctions Nicaraguan officials, Cuba-related companies
The sanctions are the latest from the Trump administration targeting Nicaraguan officials supporting Daniel Ortega.
British pound plunges amid COVID mutation, Brexit fears
Sterling tumbled 2.5 percent but bounced back after the prime minister made another offer to salvage Brexit talks.
US California hospitals discuss rationing care as virus surges
With about 98 percent of intensive care beds full, California hospitals are making contingency treatment plans.
Kilauea volcano erupts on Hawaii’s Big Island
The eruption started with multiple fissures opening on the walls of Halemaumau Crater.
Navalny says pranked Russian agent to admit poison underwear plot
Kremlin critic says he tricked Russian secret agent into disclosing details of the botched plot to kill him.
Barr publicly breaks with Trump in final days as attorney general
On the election results, Hunter Biden and the source of a cyberattack, Barr and Trump do not see eye to eye.
US issues additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials
The administration of US President Donald Trump has increased tensions with China during his final weeks in office.
Turkish court sentences Kurdish former MP to 22 years in jail
Guven convicted on three separate terrorism charges after losing parliamentary immunity in June this year.
Coronavirus: Denmark to exhume millions of mink from mass graves
Move comes amid health risk fears after mink carcasses rose from the ground, pushed up by gasses from decomposition.
‘Russia, Rwanda sent troops’ to Central African Republic
CAR gov't says foreign troops sent to the country after alleged coup bid ahead of presidential and parliamentary polls.
Kenya: Doctors on strike against inadequate benefits, PPE
Strike began on Monday after union said there was no resolution of grievances raised over the last eight months.