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Alice Woodhouse in Hong KongBoris Johnson on Monday evening ordered the immediate closure of all primary and secondary schools until mid-February and told people...

The People’s Bank of China has taken steps to ease financial conditions after interbank rates doubled in the second half of the year, reflecting...

The stock market bulls who drove Tesla’s shares up eightfold in 2020 were handed a new year present on Saturday, as the electric carmaker...

Republicans in the Senate have broken overwhelmingly from Donald Trump, rebuffing the outgoing US president’s attempt to veto this year’s $740bn defence spending bill...

Mike Pence has asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against him by Republican lawmakers who want the US vice-president to...

The US will end the year having vaccinated far fewer people against coronavirus than hoped, senior Trump administration officials admitted, with states having used...

Donald Trump challenged Senate Republicans to approve an increase to US stimulus cheques to $2,000 a person, throwing the upper chamber of Congress into...

The US House of Representatives has approved an increase in stimulus payments to a majority of Americans, raising pressure on the Republican-controlled Senate to...

Donald Trump signed a bill to release $900bn in coronavirus stimulus spending on Sunday night after previously blocking a deal he had described as...

Details of the historic free trade agreement between the UK and EU have been published in full, as EU ambassadors began the process of...