Britain’s health chief said that a new study suggesting that a single dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine provides a high level of protection for 12 weeks supports the government’s strategy of delaying the second shot so it can protect more people quickly with a first dose.

Emanuel Jackson, a 20-year-old Washington area man, was caught on video using a metal bat to strike the protective shields wielded by police officers as they tried to fend off rioters storming the US Capitol on January 6.

A Russian court sentenced Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to three and a half years in jail after ruling he had violated the terms of his parole, but said that his prison term would be shortened for time he had served earlier under house arrest.

International pop star Rihanna came out in support of the agitation by Indian farmers and criticised the internet shutdown at the protest site on the outskirts of Delhi.

The Myanmar military’s detention of Aung San Suu Kyi during this week’s coup has revived memories of her more than 15 years of house arrest at a lakeside villa in Yangon during the country’s last period of junta rule.

The British government yesterday condemned threats to port workers implementing controversial post-Brexit trade checks in Northern Ireland, calling for clear heads to ease fears of an upsurge in sectarian tensions.

The US House of Representatives Democrats who will prosecute former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial said in a brief filed yesterday he pointed a mob “like a loaded cannon” at the Capitol shortly before a deadly January 6 rampage.

Iran’s foreign minister asked the European Union to coordinate a synchronized return of both Washington and Tehran into a nuclear deal, after a diplomatic standoff on who will act first.

Singapore’s parliament passed a law yesterday limiting the use of data collected for coronavirus contact-tracing after the government admitted it could be accessed by police, sparking privacy concerns.

Brazil’s Congress on Monday elected two allies of President Jair Bolsonaro to head the Senate and lower house, an important victory for the far-right leader as he seeks to re-galvanize his reelection efforts for 2022.

The Kremlin’s most prominent critic Alexei Navalny was in a Moscow courtroom yesterday facing several years in prison, after his arrest last month triggered protests across Russia and Western condemnation.

The military takeover in Myanmar and detention of Aung San Suu Kyi was “a major cabinet reshuffle” accowrding to Chinese state media, who rolled out the euphemisms to avoid calling a coup a coup.

US President Joe Biden, facing his first major international crisis after Myanmar’s military seized power, could impose a new program of sanctions, cut aid or target generals and the companies they run to pressure for a return to democracy.

Twitter on Monday temporarily blocked scores of accounts and tweets in India at the government’s request, including those of a prominent news magazine and farmers staging mass protests in the capital.

The din of banging pots and honking car horns reverberated through Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon in the first widespread protest against the military coup that overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Scientists gave Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine the green light saying it was almost 92% effective in fighting Covid-19 based on peer-reviewed late-stage trial results published in The Lancet international medical journal.

1947: Aung San, who fought against the Japanese and led the country to independence from Britain, is assassinated. Aung San Suu Kyi, is his only daughter and youngest child.

A nine-year-old girl was handcuffed and pepper-sprayed by police in the US city of Rochester, footage released Sunday showed, sparking new outrage over excesses committed by the country’s law enforcement.

Former US president Donald Trump announced Sunday he had picked two lawyers to head his defense team days before his historic second impeachment trial, as Republicans braced for a battle over the future of their party.

Russian police have detained more than 5,300 people across the country in a massive clampdown on anti-Kremlin protests, as prosecutors backed a request to imprison opposition leader Alexey Navalny.