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KYIV — Ukraine is seeking a $100 million loan from the World Bank to buy doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, deputy health minister Svitlana Shatalova said on Thursday, as the number of new infections in the country hit a daily record high. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost       

ATHENS — Greece will extend its nationwide lockdown until Dec. 7 as COVID-19 cases continued to surge across the country, government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Thursday. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost       

LONDON — Positive COVID-19 cases in England fell 9% in the latest week in England, the country’s test and tracing system said on Thursday, as contacts of the cases successfully traced still languished near record lows. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost       

BUENOS AIRES — Argentines lined up in the streets of Buenos Aires on Thursday to say goodbye to soccer great Diego Maradona, whose casket lay in state at the Casa Rosada presidential palace draped in an Argentine flag and his famous no. 10 shirt. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost       

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin secured a key victory on Thursday as parliament approved his government’s 2021 budget, ensuring his political survival after months battling public health and economic crises and discord in his coalition. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost       

MOSCOW — Decathlete Andrei Krauchanka knows that reaching the Olympics is seldom an adversity-free path, but the political crisis in his native Belarus has made his quest for a final chance to compete on the world’s biggest sports stage even harder. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost       

TBILISI — Georgia is to introduce more coronavirus restrictions including new curfew hours, the closure of most shops, restaurants, swimming pools and gyms and the restriction of transport and a ban on sports and cultural events. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost       

REHOBOTH BEACH — D emocratic President-elect Joe Biden and sitting Republican President Donald Trump, like hundreds of millions of Americans, planned quiet Thanksgiving celebrations at home on Thursday, as the coronavirus pandemic rages across the United States. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost       

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Americans awoke on Thursday to celebrate a Thanksgiving Day transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, with the Macy’s parade limited to a television-only event and many families resigned to meeting on video for turkey dinner. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost