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The Kremlin said Friday it was "good" that US President Joe Biden was seeking dialogue with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin but criticised the United States for a fresh bout of sanctions on Moscow. Biden's offer earlier this week of a summit between...

China is planning to approve its first foreign Covid-19 vaccine before July, according to people familiar with the matter.

NASA researchers are plotting out how robots could build a radio telescope inside a moon crater. It would show the universe in new wavelengths.

Three members of the advisory council for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Poland resigned after the government appointed a member of the country's right-wing ruling party to serve on the body, The Associated Press reported Friday.The Culture Ministry...

Eight people were shot and killed and several others injured in a mass shooting Thursday night at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.