Britain is planning booster Covid-19 vaccines for over 70 year olds from September to protect them from new virus variants as the government drives ahead with its vaccine rollout, The Telegraph reported, citing the vaccine deployment minister.

Britain is close to striking a vaccine deal with the European Union as soon as this weekend that will remove the threat of the bloc cutting off supplies, The Times reported.

The leader of Myanmar’s ruling junta Min Aung Hlaing said that the military will protect the people and strive for democracy, as protesters called for a huge show of defiance against the February 1 coup despite warnings they risked being shot.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Iran for a visit that Iranian state media said would see the signing of a 25-year cooperation agreement between the two countries, which are both under US sanctions.

Fourteen-year-old Mibrak Esayus recalls the day last November when she says Eritrean soldiers burst into her home in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and killed her mother and father.

Britain’s prime minister accused China of “gross rights violations” against the Muslim Uighur minority yesterday after Beijing aimed sanctions at UK

Tugboats and dredgers were working yesterday to free a giant container ship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal for a fourth day, forcing companies to re-route services from the vital shipping lane around Africa.

Myanmar security forces shot dead four pro-democracy protesters yesterday, witnesses and local media reports said, as activist leaders called for a huge show of defiance to the ruling military junta on the country’s Armed Forces Day today.

US President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would prevent China from passing the United States to become the most powerful country in the world, vowing to invest heavily to ensure America prevails in the rivalry between the world’s two largest economies.

A UN rights expert yesterday accused Saudi Arabia of bullying after a top official allegedly threatened her life following her probe into journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s 2018 murder.

Spanish police said Thursday they had dismantled a ring suspected of financing Al-Qaeda and arrested three men, including the top representative of

A New York Times columnist on Thursday sold one of his articles in digital form for $563,000, the latest example of the craze surrounding “non

Pfizer said Thursday it had begun clinical trials for its Covid vaccine in children under the age of eleven, an early sign of the next stage of the global

Myanmar anti-coup protesters staged more rallies after the military reportedly shot dead nine people a day earlier and as the World Bank warned the country’s economy could slump 10% this year due to the turmoil.

EU leaders voiced frustration over a massive shortfall in contracted deliveries of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines, as a third wave of infections surged across Europe.

Myanmar’s security forces have killed more than 300 people in attempts to crush opposition to a February 1 coup, with nearly 90% of victims shot dead and a quarter of them shot in the head, according to data from an advocacy group and local media.

Myanmar security forces fired at pro-democracy activists taking part in street demonstrations yesterday, killing at least four people, news reports said, a day after a nationwide silent strike in protest against last month’s military coup.

A Saudi official yesterday denied he threatened UN investigator Agnes Callamard following her probe into journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s 2018 murder, after the United Nations confirmed she was issued a death threat.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has vowed a new approach to work closer with allies, promising Washington would not force them to take sides against China.

North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea yesterday, in its first substantive provocation to the new US administration of Joe Biden.