Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will receive the Covid-19 shot in public once those in his age group are in line to be vaccinated, he said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

Facebook has taken down content that spread lies in Israel against coronavirus vaccinations as the government seeks to drum up support for the programme, the Justice Ministry said on Sunday.

A volley of rockets exploded near the US embassy in Baghdad Sunday, as tensions mount ahead of the anniversary of the US killing top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on Iraqi soil.

The incoming White House chief of staff said on Sunday that President-elect Joe Biden’s response to the massive hacking campaign uncovered last week would go beyond sanctions.

Opponents of Nepal’s prime minister turned to the Supreme Court yesterday to challenge his dissolution of parliament and the calling of an election, denouncing it as a “constitutional coup”.

Europe's medicines regulator on Monday approved the use of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by US company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, putting the EU on course to start inoculations within a week.

Two major UK banks face pressure for lending millions of dollars to a technology company that is partly owned and used by the Myanmar military accused of genocide against the Rohingyas.

Tens of thousands of Indian farmers, protesting over agricultural laws that they say threaten their livelihoods, have vowed to carry on their around-the-clock sit-ins despite cold weather that has already led to some deaths among them.

The United Kingdom has been shut off from the rest of Europe after allies cut transport ties over fears of a new coronavirus strain, sowing chaos for families, truckers and supermarkets just days before the Brexit cliff edge.

Countries around the world have begun banning flights and travellers from Britain as London said Sunday the spread of a more-infectious new coronavirus strain was now "out of control".

Australia confirmed on Monday it has detected two cases of a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain that has forced Britain to reverse plans to ease curbs over Christmas, the first confirmed cases of the strain in the Asia-Pacific region.

Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health approved on Sunday the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, Qatar state news agency QNA reported on Twitter.

Saudi Arabia suspended late on Sunday all international commercial flights for a renewable week except for the foreign flights already in the kingdom which will be allowed to leave, state news agency SPA reported quoting an interior ministry source.

Indian authorities have called an urgent meeting of a key official committee to discuss the emergence of a mutated variant of the coronavirus in the UK, which spreads faster.

Saudi Arabia’s investment plans in India are on track, Saudi Arabian Ambassador in India Dr Saud bin Mohammed Al Sati has said, adding that the Indian economy has the strength to recover from the adverse impact of the Covid-19 crisis.

The growing impacts of climate change have already pushed more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more than triple if global warming continues on its current path, researchers has warned.

A car bomb targeting an Afghan lawmaker killed nine people and wounded more than a dozen in Kabul yesterday, officials said, the latest attack to rock the capital.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Belarus yesterday as they sought to keep the pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko over his

Local vigilantes rescued dozens of schoolchildren abducted by bandits in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina after a gun battle, police said yesterday. G

Santa Claus can safely deliver gifts to good girls and boys on Christmas, after a special visitor went all the way to the North Pole to deliver a coronavirus vaccine.