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COVID-19 pandemic could end in 2022 if global vaccination increases, WHO says
The acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic could end next year but the coronavirus will not disappear, the World Health Organization’s Mike ...Hong Kong police raid pro-democracy Stand News outlet, arrest six
Hundreds of Hong Kong national security police raided the office of online pro-democracy media outlet Stand News on Wednesday and arrested six ...Malaysia lifts travel ban on 8 African countries
Malaysia has lifted a travel ban on eight southern African countries that had first reported the Omicron variant of the coronvirus, citing ...South Korea authorises emergency use of Pfizer’s oral coronavirus treatment
South Korea authorised for emergency use Pfizer’s (PFE.N) antiviral pills targeting COVID-19 as the first of its kind to be introduced in South Korea, ...World economy to top $100 trillion in 2022 for first time
The world’s economic output will exceed $100 trillion for the first time next year and it will take China a little longer ...Christmas weekend sees thousands of flights cancelled globally
Commercial airlines around the world canceled more than 4,500 flights over the Christmas weekend, as a mounting wave of COVID-19 infections driven ...Myanmar airstrikes displace more people along Thai-Myanmar border
Myanmar’s military carried out more airstrikes on a rebel-controlled area near the Thai border, the rebel group said on Friday, in the ...Two more Tiananmen monuments removed from Hong Kong universities
Two more Hong Kong universities on Friday removed public monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, following on the heels of ...South Korea holds talks with China amid spat with Taiwan
Senior South Korean diplomats will hold talks with Chinese counterparts on Thursday following a diplomatic spat with Taiwan over its cancellation of ...Dozens feared missing after landslide at Myanmar jade mine
Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a ...














