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British authorities have recommended giving as many people as possible a first dose of the COVID19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca right away and following up with a second injection four to 12 weeks later.

Brazil will soon weigh emergency use approval for AstraZeneca's COVID19 vaccine after Britain led the way on Wednesday, as Latin America's largest country rushes to catch up with immunization programs underway around the region.

At least 20 people were killed and dozens wounded in an attack on Aden airport on Wednesday moments after a plane landed carrying a newly formed Saudibacked cabinet for governmentheld parts of Yemen.

At least 13 people were killed and dozens more wounded in an attack on Aden airport on Wednesday moments after a plane landed carrying a newly formed Saudibacked cabinet for governmentheld parts of Yemen.

Ten people were hurt, one of them critically, and 26 people remained unaccounted for after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.

France will not enforce a new lockdown for the time being to curb the spread of the coronavirus but it could soon impose an earlier curfew in eastern areas of the country, the worsthit by infections, the health minister said on Tuesday.

A 26yearold rising local rapper accused in the kidnapping of a South Florida couple in October can go free until his trial if he pays a $250,000 bond, a federal magistrate ruled Monday.

The European Union and United States on Tuesday criticised the jailing of a citizenjournalist in China who reported on the early outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic from Wuhan.

While most of the converted girls are impoverished Hindus from southern Sindh province, two new cases involving Christians have roiled the country in recent months.

For months President Vladimir Putin has boasted about Russia's low fatality rate from the virus, saying earlier this month that it had done a 'better' job at managing the pandemic than western countries.

Russia's federal penitentiary service on Monday gave top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny one day to report to its office or face imprisonment, if he comes back to Russia after the deadline.

Germany's COVID19 vaccination campaign has been overshadowed by an overdose mishap in the north and problems with the transportation of the vaccine in the south which lead to 1,000 shots being sent back.

FBI agents investigating the Nashville motor home explosion have visited a real estate agency where a person of interest in the bombing had worked on computers, local media reported on Sunday.

Britain and Turkey are set to sign a free trade deal on Tuesday, the UK trade ministry said on Sunday, the first since Prime Minister Boris Johnson secured a new trade agreement with the European Union.

An expert committee convened by Singapore's health ministry has recommended all residents medically eligible for COVID19 vaccination to take shots as they become available, although it said vaccination should remain a voluntary option.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said, while the interior minister said there were no immediate reports of casualties or significant damage.