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Shots were heard on Sunday as police broke up a protest in the southeastern town of Myawaddy against Myanmar's junta, which was demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi after last week's coup, live video published on Facebook showed.

The study from South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand and Oxford University showed the vaccine had significantly reduced efficacy against the South African variant, according to a Financial Times report published earlier in the day.

Libya's parallel eastern administration on Saturday welcomed Friday's announcement of a new interim government to unite the country, but added it would only cede power if the easternbased parliament approved.

Police locked down a large area of central Tunis on Saturday, blocking roads as thousands of protesters, backed by the country's powerful labour union, gathered in Tunisia's biggest demonstration for years.

Former President Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial begins Tuesday, forcing the Senate to decide whether to convict him of incitement of insurrection after a violent mob of his supporters laid siege to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Hundreds of people from Taiwan's large SinoBurmese community rallied in a Taipei suburb on Saturday to denounce the coup in Myanmar and express their support for detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The lawyer for Myanmar's elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and ousted President Win Myint said they were being held in their homes after being detained on Monday when the army seized power and that he was unable to meet them.

The Biden administration promised Black business executives on Friday that it planned to make sure that the government's economic support programs were able to reach minorityowned businesses.

The Biden administration is naming a longtime U.S. diplomat for the Middle East as its special envoy in Yemen, as it seeks a diplomatic end to a grinding five-year-war that has deepened humanitarian suffering in the Arabian peninsulas poorest country.

Jordanian gym owner Mohammad al Armouti sighs with relief as he watches masked patrons work out again after the government eased COVID19 restrictions, allowing his business to reopen.

A prominent Lebanese Shi'ite critic of Iranbacked Hezbollah was found dead in a car in southern Lebanon on Thursday, two security sources and local media said.

India is one of the world's biggest drugmakers, and an increasing number of countries have already approached it for procuring coronavirus vaccines.

There are around 4,000 coronavirus variants around the world prompting vaccine manufacturers, including Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca Plc, to try to improve their shots, s British minister said.

The World Health Organization is deploying teams across Syria for a vaccination programme that will be rolled out both in governmentheld areas and territory outside state control, perhaps as soon as April, it said on Wednesday.

At 22, Joe DiMeo is rediscovering a range of sensations on his hands and face, from warmth to coolness, and from wetness to the touch of another person.

Taiwan has opened a representative office in Guyana, the island's foreign ministry said on Thursday, drawing praise from the United States which has worried about deepening Chinese influence in Latin America.