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Drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC said on Friday it had applied for approval in Japan of its COVID19 vaccine, making it the second pharmaceutical firm to do so after Pfizer Inc.

Random testing on people in Japan's capital in December showed that 0.91% had antibodies to the virus, compared with about 0.1% in a similar study in June, health ministry said in a report on Friday

Two weeks after Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first woman to be vice president , her barrierbreaking career has been memorialized in a portrait that depicts her face emerging from the cracks in a massive sheet of glass.

The Biden administration views the New Start Treaty clinched with Russia this week as the beginning of engagement on strategic issues and urges China to join the effort to reduce nuclear arms stockpiles, a U.S. envoy said on Thursday.

Malaysia's government said on Thursday it expects to complete its COVID19 immunisation programme by February next year, covering 80% of its population of about 32 million people.

Suu Kyi and other top civilian leaders were detained in dawn raids on Monday. The lightning coup brought a country on the path to democracy to a shuddering halt, returning the reins of power to the military who ruled Myanmar with an iron fist for nearly f...

Canada named the farright Proud Boys a terrorist entity on Wednesday, saying it posed an active security threat and played a "pivotal role" in last month's attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead.

Sweden's LELO says sex toy sales were up 10 percent in 2020, despite stores being closed. A report last year by Statista said the global market was set to almost double from $28.6 billion to $52.7 billion between 2019 and 2026.

The United States joined Russia on Wednesday in extending the two countries' last remaining treaty limiting their stockpiles of nuclear weapons, two days before the pact was set to expire.

U.S. President Joe Biden will on Wednesday meet congressional Democrats preparing to advance his $1.9 trillion COVID19 relief plan despite Republican pushback.

Ireland backed a British call on Wednesday for an extension of grace periods for checks on goods going between Britain and Northern Ireland, before EUUK talks about the province, where postBrexit trade issues and port control are causing tension.

Tests conducted on samples of the Kent variant, named after the region in England where it was first detected, show a mutation, called ‘E484K’, already detected in the South Africa and Brazil variants.

South Korea's President Moon Jaein called on Wednesday for seamless preparations for coronavirus vaccinations, as a refrigerated van drove in convoy with several military and police escort cars in a drill at the capital's airport.

After a 10-year experiment with moving towards a more democratic system, the generals are back in charge, sparking a chorus of international condemnation and the threat of renewed sanctions.

An open Senate seat in Ohio has set off a round of jockeying among ambitious Democrats and a spirited debate over who is best poised to lead a party comeback in a onetime battleground that has been trending Republican.

From the first weeks of the pandemic, the Russian president ordered the scientific, political and military apparatus of the country to work in overdrive to develop the world's first Covid vaccine -- even if that meant taking shortcuts.