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AstraZeneca vaccine effective against COVID-19 variants identified in India
AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine is effective against Delta and Kappa variants, which were first identified in India, the company said on Tuesday, ...Philippines’ Duterte warns he’ll jail people who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine
President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of Asia’s ...Iran’s Raisi calls for effective nuclear talks, rules out Biden meet
Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday he will not allow nuclear negotiations for the sake of negotiations, in his first news ...Israel’s Bennett warns against nuclear talks with Iran’s “hangmen regime
Israel condemned on Sunday the election of hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi as Iranian president, saying his would be a “regime of brutal ...Hardline judge Raisi wins Iran’s presidential election
Hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi was heading for a landslide win in Iran’s presidential election on Saturday, as the man he will replace ...UN calls for member states to ‘prevent the flow of arms’ into Myanmar
The UN General Assembly on Friday took the rare step of calling on member states to “prevent the flow of arms” into ...Iran votes for new president with ultraconservative tipped to win
Iranians voted Friday in a presidential election in which ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi is seen as all but certain to coast to ...Former Ivory Coast president Gbagbo returns home after decade of exile
-Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, ousted during a civil war in 2011 and acquitted of war crimes in The Hague, flew ...Britain, pressed by airlines, may ease rules for vaccinated travellers
Britain is considering easing travel rules for double vaccinated people, a move that would placate airlines which have launched legal action against ...North Korea’s Kim says food situation ‘tense’ due to pandemic, typhoons
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said the country’s economy improved this year but called for measures to tackle the “tense” ...