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Anthony Banash receives a COVID-19 Pfizer vaccination at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center on January 21, 2021 in Torrance, California. Banash was the first patient to receive the vaccine at the hospital. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

US vaccine shortages force cancellations, postponements

Over the past few days, authorities in California, Ohio, West Virginia, Florida and Hawaii warned that their supplies...

22 Jan 2021 5:48 AM GMT

A Guarani indigenous man is inoculated with the Sinovac Biotechs CoronaVac vaccine against COVID-19 at the Sao Mata Verde Bonita tribe camp, in Guarani indigenous land, in the city of Marica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 20, 2021, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Mauro Pimentel / AFP)

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Brazil awaiting two million vaccine doses from India

The delivery on Friday would be a much-needed boost to Brazil's vaccination programme

22 Jan 2021 5:13 AM GMT

President Joe Biden signs his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP)

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Biden signs 15 executive orders, reversing Trump's key policies

The orders ranged from rejoining the Paris agreement, halting US' withdrawal from WHO, and stopping construction of...

21 Jan 2021 6:04 AM GMT

Biden on Wednesday planned to halt construction on Trumps U.S.-Mexico border wall, end the ban on travel from some Muslim-majority countries, rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization and revoke the approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, aides said. (Photo:AP)

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It's a new day in America

Biden to end country cap on H1B visas with his first orders

20 Jan 2021 10:55 PM GMT

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is surrounded by journalists inside the plane prior to his flight to Moscow in the Airport Berlin Brandenburg (BER) in Schoenefeld, near Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. (AP /Mstyslav Chernov)

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Kremlin critic Navalny detained after landing in Moscow

Navalny has been a thorn in the Kremlin's side for a decade, unusually durable in an opposition movement often...

18 Jan 2021 7:01 AM GMT

A nurse wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks by people lining up for a coronavirus test at a hospital in Beijing, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. The coronavirus was found on ice cream produced in eastern China, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch, according to the government. (AP)

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Chinese city reports coronavirus found on ice cream

Most of the 29,000 cartons in the batch had yet to be sold, the government said

17 Jan 2021 8:47 AM GMT

It took eight months to hit 1 million dead but less than four months after that to reach the next million. (Photo:AP)

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This is not a game': Global virus death toll hits 2 million

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the 2 million milestone has been made worse by the absence of a global...

15 Jan 2021 7:42 PM GMT

This handout photo taken and released on January 15, 2021 by Indonesias National Disaster Agency shows rescuers looking for survivors trapped in a collapsed building in Mamuju, after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Sulawesi island. (Photo by Handout/ National Search and Rescue Agency / AFP)

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At least 34 killed as quake rocks Indonesia

Rescuers were searching for more than a dozen patients and staff trapped beneath the rubble of the levelled Mamuju...

15 Jan 2021 5:30 AM GMT

Pope Francis, wearing a face mask, descending the stairs of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli prior to an inter-religious ceremony for peace in Campidoglio Square, at Romes Capitoline Hill. (Photo: VATICAN MEDIA / AFP)

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Vatican: Pope receives coronavirus vaccine

The Vatican has beefed up coronavirus restrictions amid a spike in cases in Italy

15 Jan 2021 1:57 AM GMT

$US President Donald Trump delivers an update on \Operation Warp Speed\ in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP)$ World

US lawmakers seek to hold Trump accountable for January 6 storming of...

McGovern brought to the House Floor H. Res. 24, the article of impeachment against Trump

13 Jan 2021 6:10 PM GMT

$\My administration has no greater task than restoring faith in American government. Our White House Counsels Office will be built upon a foundation of integrity and honesty\, said Biden. (Photo:AFP)$ World

Biden names two Indian Americans to the Office of White House Counsel

Reema Shah has been named as Deputy Associate Counsel while Neha Gupta, has been named as Associate Counsel in the...

11 Jan 2021 7:25 PM GMT

People walk around in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo on Thursday, January. 7, 2021, after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced a state of emergency. Japan declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and three nearby prefectures, starting Friday as coronavirus cases continued to surge in the nation. (AP/Hiro Komae)

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Japanese Health Ministry finds new virus variant

Japan was working with other nations, the WHO and other medical experts to analyze the new version of the virus

11 Jan 2021 6:07 AM GMT