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A German military plane carrying over 20 doctors and nurses together with ventilators and hospital beds arrived on Wednesday in coronavirusstricken Portugal, where a severe rise in cases has prompted several European nations to offer help.

An improvised explosive device killed four Tunisian soldiers patrolling in a mountain region near the Algerian border, Defence Ministry spokesman Mohammed Zekri said on Wednesday.

The Netherlands is to introduce rapid COVID19 breath tests to sites across the country to speed up the testing process and make it less intrusive.

The COVID19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca gives good immune responses in older people, even if there is a lack of data about its exact efficacy, Oxford's vaccine trial chief Andrew Pollard said on Wednesday.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered a review of asylum processing at the U.S.Mexico border and the immigration system as he seeks to undo some of former President Donald Trump's hardline policies.

The sensitive mission, which China had delayed throughout the first year of the pandemic, has a remit to explore how the virus jumped from animal to human.

The military detention of Myanmars civilian leaders was a coup, U.S. State Department officials said Tuesday, and promised sanctions and other measures targeting the very small circle of military generals responsible.

"For the first time, breast cancer now constitutes the most commonly occurring cancer globally," Andre Ilbawi, a cancer specialist at the WHO, told a U.N. briefing ahead of World Cancer Day on Thursday.

Russia's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that the presence of foreign diplomats at a court considering whether to jail Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for longer was evidence of Western attempts to interfere in Moscow's domestic affairs.

The party demanded release all detainees including the president Win Myint and the State Counsellor Suu Kyi.

A military coup in Myanmar and a mass crackdown on dissidents in Russia are presenting early tests for the Biden administration as it tries to reestablish American primacy as a worldwide prodemocracy leader.

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine filed a supreme court challenge on Monday seeking cancellation of the results of a presidential election that handed victory to incumbent Yoweri Museveni, his party's lawyer said.

Longtime South Dakota Republican voter Jim Thompson is ready to leave the GOP, hoping that an exodus of Donald Trump supporters like him will punish the state's preeminent politician, Sen. John Thune, for defying Trump.

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Russia has begun supplying its Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine to the rebelcontrolled region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine despite a ban by Kyiv, a local news outlet said on Sunday.

Supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were set to stage fresh protests in Moscow and across Russia on Sunday for a second straight weekend despite a sweeping crackdown on his allies and the nearcertainty of a confrontation with police.