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With one of the fastest ageing populations in the world, South Korea this week sought to reassure elderly residents as it said it would push ahead with AstraZeneca’s COVID19 vaccine but is still examining its efficacy for people older than 65.

There is no evidence that the Astrazeneca vaccine does not prevent death or serious illness, and South Africa has only imposed a temporary halt on using the vaccine, a British junior health minister said on Monday.

UK is relying on the Oxford vaccine less heavily than India. It approved Pfizer first, and now appears to be rolling that one out faster than the Oxford vaccine, which is widely regarded across Britain as a poor and less preferable cousin to the rest.

Taiwan's central bank on Sunday said it had banned Deutsche Bank from trading Taiwan dollar deliverable and nondeliverable forwards and suspended them for two years from trading forex derivatives as part of a crackdown on speculation.

Tens of thousands of people marched for a second day in Myanmar’s biggest city on Sunday and thousands more across the country to protest against the military junta's coup and detention of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week.

Australia reported no new local coronavirus cases for a third day on Sunday, as tennis players geared up for the first Grand Slam of the year in Melbourne on Monday.

In an open letter to Rihanna, Rushan Abbas, whose sister has been placed in a camp by the Chinese authorities, asked: 'Why aren’t we talking about this? regarding the Uyghur genocide.

The sting of being the first team eliminated from the 36th Americas Cup is going to be with the New York Yacht Clubs American Magic for quite some time.

Leaders of the federal agency overseeing election administration have quietly weakened a key element of proposed security standards for voting systems, raising concern among votingintegrity experts that many such systems will remain vulnerable to hacking.

President Joe Biden is heading back to his home in Delaware on Friday to spend the weekend with his wife and family, even as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that Americans forgo travel because of the coronavirus pandemic.

A onetime ally of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday that she was no traitor for accepting a ministerial post with the junta that overthrew the elected leader this week.

AstraZeneca and Oxford University's COVID19 vaccine has similar efficacy against the British coronavirus variant as it does to the previously circulating variants, the university said on Friday.

Yemen expects a first batch of 2.3 million COVID19 vaccine doses by March through the COVAX vaccinesharing facility, and Saudi Arabia could separately finance shots for around 50% of the population, agencies involved have said.

The European Union's top diplomat appealed to Russia on Friday to free jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, a case he said had brought EURussian ties to a low, drawing a robust response from Moscow which called the EU an unreliable partner.

Prime minister designate Mario Draghi is holding formal consultations with Italy's parties until Saturday in an attempt to find enough backing in parliament to form a government.

A U.S. warship sailed near the Chinesecontrolled Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea on Friday in a freedom of navigation operation, the U.S. Navy said, the first such mission under President Joe Biden's new administration.