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The bill, which says the government will cover all vaccine costs for Japan's 126 million residents, was approved by the upper house of parliament, having cleared the powerful lower house.

The technique mimics big volcanic eruptions that can cool the Earth by masking the sun with a veil of ash or similar other things.

The move comes a day after rival Moderna said it was asking US and European regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine.

Ukrainian chef says that the soup is an intangible part of the country's cultural heritage

L'Anomalie sees a hit man, a Nigerian pop star and a writer land in New York only to find that their flight had already arrived three months earlier

The latest annual deforestation figure was the highest since 2008, when 12,911 square kilometers of forest were destroyed in the Brazilian Amazon. 

Meanwhile indoor entertainment venues such as cinemas and bowling will close their doors for at least two weeks.

Lockdowns and other measures implemented in the wake of the global health crisis have led to a "shadow pandemic" of rising gender-based violence

"I would be remiss if I didn't start also by recognising the news coming out of India about the protest by farmers. The situation is concerning and we're all very worried about family and friends," Trudeau said.

In the virtual meeting with national security and climate policy staff on Monday, Biden reiterated his intention to ensure climate change is a core national security priority.

The campaign via curated installations in India's palaces and forts for three months aims to pay tribute to its rich textile history by working with its custodians- the local artisans.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 9,431,691, while the country's death toll soared to 137,139.

DMZ is a buffer zone dividing North and South Korea established on July 27, 1953, when the Armistice Agreement was signed during the Korean War

The lander-ascender combination of the spacecraft separated from its orbiter-returner combination at around 4.40 a.m. on Monday (Beijing Time), Xinhua news agency quoted the China National Space Administration (CNSA) as saying.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said that as per its earlier decision, the UK carriers will no longer be able to install Huawei equipment beginning September 2021.

The fire on the world's largest sand island, off Australia's east coast, has been raging for more than six weeks and is consuming large swathes of the island's unique forests.

The centuries old markets bring in revenues of three to five billion euros every year

On March 11, when the World Health Organisation declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, lookups on the site for pandemic spiked hugely.

Edward Kallon, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, condemned the incident, in which several women were also kidnapped by the terror group Boko Haram suspected of being responsible

The figures released on Sunday were incomplete, as reports on both deaths and cases were slowed down due to it being the weekend as well as the holding of elections in 57 municipalities.

"We're going to continue to be guided by facts and data as we fight back against #COVID19 and reopen our city," the mayor said on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported.

The new hires: Elizabeth E. Alexander, Communications Director for the First Lady, Kate Bedingfield, White House Communications Director, Ashley Etienne, Communications Director for the Vice President

Biden, 78, spent most of Sunday in doctor offices - first at Delaware Orthopaedic Specialists in Newark, Delaware and subsequently at another location for a CT scan.

This did not go well with Australia, which in a sharp rebuke, said that the Chinese government should be totally ashamed of the 'truly offensive' post, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.