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I had a constructive call with Mihail Murashko (Mikhail Murashko), Russia's Health Minister, about the Covid19 response globally & in Russia, as well as about the Sputnik V vaccine & the WHO Emergency Use Listing process for vaccines.

Thousands of doctors, nurses and technicians working at hospitals designated to treat COVID-19 patients lined up in the morning and received the first jabs of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Online information about COVID nasopharyngeal swabs lacks information warning those with prior extensive sinus or skull base surgery.

Citing US officials, the report said on Sunday that four online publications linked to Russian intelligence agencies have been spreading misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines.

Australia announced late Sunday it had suspended a defense training program with Myanmar worth about 1.5 million Australian dollars ($1.2 million) over five years.

The country's president said the fire may have been due to residents burning the fields surrounding the military barracks.

Markle said she didn't "fully understand what the job was" when she, as an "American", waded into "the firm" - her description for the British royal family.

The proposal has been widely criticised, especially by the Swiss religious organisations, human rights and civic groups and the federal government.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 28,991,537 and 524,987, respectively, according to the CSSE.

The United States has no official relations with Taiwan's democratically elected government but extensive informal ties.

On April 21, 2019, nine suicide bombers belonging to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS carried out a series of blasts.

Bagan is best known for being one of the country's top tourist attractions, but it has also been the scene of large protest marches against the military's February 1 seizure of power.

The rescuers are busy in relief activities, aided by the local people. Several people are still trapped inside the ill-fated train, Geo News reported.

Construction started in 2014 on the railway line connecting Lhasa with Nyingchi in eastern Tibet.

The India-Myanmar border has a Free Movement Regime (FMR) which allows tribes living along the border to travel 16 km across either side without visa restrictions.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca doses from COVAX will be for the most vulnerable persons above 60 years of age group in the most high-risk areas impacted by COVID-19.

Thein Zaw was arrested on Feb 27 while covering a protest against the military coup that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 28,949,592 and 524,262, respectively, according to the CSSE.

JUI-F's Maulana Salahuddin Ayubi, a sitting Member of National Assembly (MNA), had recently married a 14-year-old minor girl from Chitral in the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province

The Chicago-based company filed its proxy statement ahead of its April 20 annual shareholder meeting, which will be conducted online.

Cinemas in the city are currently operating at only 25 per cent capacity, with a maximum of 50 per each auditorium

They had been previously thought to be less reactive to climate stress

The picture book American Anthem will be released June 29, Penguin Young Readers announced.

According to KrebsOnSecurity, the China-based espionage group exploited four vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server email software.