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Australia has joined a host of countries in restricting use of the vaccine due to clotting concerns

After Europe’s drug regulator finds a possible link between AstraZeneca’s vaccine and rare blood clotting issues

6 countries allow special night prayers in Ramazan; 3 continue ban amid coronavirus pandemic

Commenting on recent incidents of mass shooting, Biden says 'this is an epidemic, for God’s sake, and it has to stop'

US Treasury Department says it blacklisted Pakistani national Abid Ali Khan

Inoculations in India are currently limited to those aged over 45 and health and frontline workers

Hundreds of people have been killed in Myanmar since the army seized power in a coup on February 1

Ministers say many other countries not on 'red list' have more positive Covid tests per 100,000 people than Pakistan

Rich-poor gap, climate change, conflicts will pose greater challenges in coming decades, concludes Global Trends 2040

India has so far administered more than 90 million doses

Speaking to D-8 developing countries, Recep Tayyip Erdogan also reiterates importance of trading in local currencies

Israel’s infection rate has dropped after 57% of the population received at least one vaccine dose

Ready to help our Pakistani colleagues meet their needs, says Russian FM during two-day visit to Islamabad

“We have more than enough Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to cover all of the remaining eight and a half million people,”

Junta starts issuing arrest warrants for influencers, entertainers, artists and musicians

Japan has been relatively slow in inoculating its citizens

Senate approves adding proposal to ban religious practices in university's to bill against 'Islamist separatism'

The spike, much faster than last year’s first wave, has caught the authorities by surprise

Temporary suspension does not mean that the vaccine is unsafe or ineffective

Washington's special envoy for climate change John Kerry meets India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi

After EU and British regulators found a potential link between the shot and rare brain blood clots

Relationship between vaccine, blood clots not confirmed, more studies needed, says WHO advisory committee

Turkey's president to hand over chairmanship of D-8 Summit to Bangladeshi premier on Thursday

Iraqi calls soared for a withdrawal of US troops after former president Trump ordered assassination of Qasem Soleimani

Health ministry data shows 685 deaths, taking the tally to 166,862

Australia has no current plans to change the rollout of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

The move comes after NZealand records 23 new positive coronavirus cases at its border of which 17 were from India

Afghan president is lauded for demonstrating confidence in the war-torn country's healthcare system

Says former heir Prince Hamza today is with his family in his palace under my care

Scientists fear a showdown between the South African variant and the already rampant Brazilian variant

Prisoners of war were captured during fighting with Azeri forces during last year’s Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

The country’s military ruler said the civil disobedience movement was 'destroying' Myanmar

FM hopes Russia will play role in bringing peace to region as the two sides discuss strengthening bilateral relations

Satinder Lambah says two countries need people who have seniority and decision making power

Deaths rose by 630 - the most in four days - to 166,177

Neither Washington nor Tehran say they expect any quick breakthroughs from the talks

Finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies poised to extend a freeze on debt payments

The European region, which includes 51 countries, has the highest total number of deaths at nearly 1.1 million

Saudi Arabia is looking to bring up to 500 international companies to Riyadh after the February ultimatum

Main opposition party demands inquiry as French media report says deal involved payment of €1 million to ‘middleman’

"Individual risks for most disorders maybe small, effect across whole population may be substantial"

Moderna will become the third vaccine to be used in Britain after the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer

The university said in February it planned to enroll 300 volunteers aged 6-17 years, based in the United Kingdom

Severe cases have filled about 70% of hospital beds in the region

Covid-19 variant first discovered in Britain, taken hold in Osaka region

Authorities did not provide details on the nationalities of those involved in the incident

The Afghan intelligence service believes the insurgents have mastered the technique of planting roadside IEDs

Seventeen divers participated in the effort to find and free the monk

The pressure has meant production capacity at SII is "very stressed, to put it quite frankly", the firm's CEO said

The premier reiterated importance Pakistan attaches to its relations with Russia as a key foreign policy priority