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Indonesia, Turkey, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, and Laos have granted authorisation for the Sinovac vaccines

Government officials ordinary netizens are split over free speech and the US company’s compliance practices

Australia’s foreign ministry 'deeply concerned' about reports of Australian detained arbitrarily in Myanmar

Referring to elections in Iran in June, Zarif says the election of a hardline president could further risk the deal

Saudi foreign minister congratulates US Secretary of State on taking up new appointment last week

The merit-based scholarships for Afghan students under HEC is a great initiative of the govt, says Pak envoy

Indian government has offered concessions to the farmers but refuses to repeal three laws passed last year

The 34-year-old’s death from the virus led to an outpouring of public mourning

Civil society organisations appeal to internet providers and mobile networks to resist the junta’s orders

A team of public health workers is going door-to-door in one of Mexico City's poorest districts

Current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour

The authorities impose increasingly rigid social distancing rules as they fight the latest wave of the epidemic

Genome sequencing carried out to determine if the case has the South African Covid-19 variant

The reversal comes a day after President Joe Biden declared a halt to US support for the military campaign in Yemen

The rights to peaceful assembly & expression should be protected both offline & online says the UN High Commission

Both sides must respect each other’s political systems and development paths, Chinese Foreign Ministry said

Israel, which is not a member of the court, rejected its jurisdiction

4G mobile internet services being restored in Occupied Kashmir, says local administration

UK variant is more infectious, and causes much more serious illness, according to Robert Koch Institute

India's drug regulator says its experts did not recommend vaccine because of side effects reported abroad

Day earlier, Britain’s media regulator revoked the TV licence of Chinese state media outlet CGTN

Surveys suggest voters, who rejected secession in 2014, would vote for independence if referendum takes place

Navalny was jailed this week for almost three years for parole violations

Biden promised a new era of US foreign policy in his first diplomatic address as president, on Thursday

China’s military condemned the move, dispatched naval and air units to follow and warn away the ship.

Thousands of farmers rally in the country's largest state to show their support for protests in the capital

Top diplomat says India's unilateral actions in Kashmir violation of UN resolutions, Geneva conventions

The coup was “one step backward in the process of democracy in that country” says Malaysian PM

People protest the military takeover as teachers become the latest to join a widening campaign of civil disobedience

The move is a reversal of a policy of both the Democratic Obama and Republican Trump administrations

Hong Kong has unveiled controversial guidelines for schools in the Chinese-ruled city

New Zealand said on Friday it will start receiving refugees again this month

Biden to raise annual refugee admissions after Trump slashed levels to historic lows

It will keep a mandatory two-week quarantine for all overseas visitors

Lopez Obrador was a heavy smoker until suffering a major heart attack in 2013

Spokesperson says PM only reiterated country's long-held position, support for Kashmiris' right to self-determination

Police have since erected barricades around three main protest sites and shut off the internet in some areas.

Source familiar with matter says US president was expected to tap veteran US diplomat Timothy Lenderking for new post

Distinguished guests from the UK, US, Pakistan and other parts of the world participated in conference

Google Fit already uses smartphone sensors to figure out how far people walk or how many calories they have burned

New Delhi had sent 1.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Myanmar as part of a diplomatic effort last month

Peter Daszak says team in Wuhan receiving new information about how the virus led to pandemic

Labour organisations and government officials say up to 15,000 workers had downed tools since the tragic incident

The travel and entertainment industries are particularly interested in a way of swiftly checking who has protection

Judge following case says body of Lokman Slim had four bullets in head and one in back

The trip on Wednesday to the Wuhan lab was one of highest-profile events on agenda because of controversial theory

Very unlikely current vaccines would not work against new variants, says British minister

Health authorities warn a large fourth wave of infections caused by new variants cannot be ruled out

The Islamic Republic has denied involvement in the foiled plot

Lokman Slim, an activist, and publisher, was shot with a bullet to the head