Northern Ireland will impose a six-week lockdown after Christmas as rising coronavirus case rates strain the British province's public health system, the devolved government announced Thursday.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday said he was ready to talk with US President-elect Joe Biden "on any subject" but vowed to protect his country's sovereignty and socialist ideals.
Poland will go into a three-week partial lockdown from December 28, with shopping centres and ski slopes closed as well as a travel restriction on New Year's Eve, the health minister said Thursday.
European leaders who had been in recent contact with Emmanuel Macron are self-isolating after the French president tested positive for the coronavirus.
An expert panel at the US Food and Drug Administration has endorsed emergency use of a coronavirus vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical firm Moderna.