The heads of Germany's 16 states have agreed on a draft proposal for extending certain elements of the country's coronavirus-related social distancing measures into December before a temporary easing of restrictions for the Christmas holidays, the mayor of Berlin, Michael Mueller, said on Tuesday, ahead of a planned meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Pennsylvania has certified its election results and declared projected President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the November election in the state, giving him all 20 of its electoral college votes, Governor Tom Wolf said in a statement on Tuesday

Armenian Minister of Economy Tigran Khachatryan submitted his resignation, Sputnik Armenia reported on Tuesday citing the minister's spokeswoman

Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that she was "very willing" to meet the public and hear the views of people amid the resignation of all opposition lawmakers from the Legislative Council of China's administrative region

The European Union is prepared to pledge 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion) to help Afghanistan for the next four years, Finland's International Partnerships Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen said Tuesday

The efficacy of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is 91.4 percent, based on the second interim analysis of data obtained 28 days after the injection of the first dose of the two-component vaccine, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Tuesday

Russia has registered 24,326 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, down from the record 25,173 the day before, bringing the total to 2,138,828, the federal response center said on Tuesday