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The UK is the first nation to begin mass vaccinations in December and more than 17 million people have now received at least a first vaccine dose - one-third of the UK's adult population [File: Jack Hill/AFP)

‘Extremely promising’: 1st dose of COVID vaccine cuts illness

Separate studies from England and Scotland show that risk of illness and hospitalisation reduced from first jab.

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NASA showcases dramatic video of Mars landing, releases images

NASA showcases dramatic video of Mars landing, releases images

NASA says Perseverance videos provide a ‘treasure trove’ of details about the alien world.

The cryptocurrency market has run hot this year as big money managers begin to take the asset class seriously [Dado Ruvic/Reuters]

Bitcoin slumps 14% as pullback from record gathers pace

Taliban spokesperson Mohammad Naeem said that the first item of business will be setting the agenda [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

Afghan peace talks resume in Doha as US reviews Taliban deal

Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani listens to questions during a news conference in Doha, Qatar on December 14, 1976 where he attended an OPEC meeting [AP]

Long-serving Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani dies at 90

Coronel was charged on Monday in a one-count complaint with conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, cannabis and methamphetamines for unlawful importation into the United States [File: Kena Beantcur/AFP]

US detains wife of Mexican drug cartel chief El Chapo

Lila Blanks reacts next to the coffin of her husband, Gregory Blanks, 50, who died from complications from COVID-19, before his funeral in San Felipe, Texas, on January 26 [File: Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters]

‘Truly heartbreaking’: US surpasses 500,000 COVID deaths

Nika Melia, leader of the United National Movement, the country's main opposition party, was dragged from his party headquarters [File: AFP]

Georgian police storm opposition party offices, detain its leader

Last week, an address Khan was supposed to give at Sri Lanka’s parliament during the visit was abruptly cancelled [File: Mohammad Ismail/Reuters]

Pakistan’s Imran Khan on maiden Sri Lanka visit to boost ties

Protesters take part in a rally to encourage Canada and other countries to label China's treatment of its Uighur population and Muslim minorities as genocide, outside the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC, on February 19 [Leah Millis/Reuters]

Canada’s parliament says China’s treatment of Uighurs is genocide


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NASA showcases dramatic video of Mars landing, releases images

NASA showcases dramatic video of Mars landing, releases images

The cryptocurrency market has run hot this year as big money managers begin to take the asset class seriously [Dado Ruvic/Reuters]

Bitcoin slumps 14% as pullback from record gathers pace

Taliban spokesperson Mohammad Naeem said that the first item of business will be setting the agenda [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

Afghan peace talks resume in Doha as US reviews Taliban deal

Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani listens to questions during a news conference in Doha, Qatar on December 14, 1976 where he attended an OPEC meeting [AP]

Long-serving Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani dies at 90

Coronel was charged on Monday in a one-count complaint with conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, cannabis and methamphetamines for unlawful importation into the United States [File: Kena Beantcur/AFP]

US detains wife of Mexican drug cartel chief El Chapo

Lila Blanks reacts next to the coffin of her husband, Gregory Blanks, 50, who died from complications from COVID-19, before his funeral in San Felipe, Texas, on January 26 [File: Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters]

‘Truly heartbreaking’: US surpasses 500,000 COVID deaths

Nika Melia, leader of the United National Movement, the country's main opposition party, was dragged from his party headquarters [File: AFP]

Georgian police storm opposition party offices, detain its leader

Last week, an address Khan was supposed to give at Sri Lanka’s parliament during the visit was abruptly cancelled [File: Mohammad Ismail/Reuters]

Pakistan’s Imran Khan on maiden Sri Lanka visit to boost ties

Protesters take part in a rally to encourage Canada and other countries to label China's treatment of its Uighur population and Muslim minorities as genocide, outside the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC, on February 19 [Leah Millis/Reuters]

Canada’s parliament says China’s treatment of Uighurs is genocide

Timeline: How the US reached 500,000 COVID-19 deaths

A look at the past 12 months and how coronavirus exacted such a devastating toll on the United States.

US President Joe Biden, his wife Jill Biden, US Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff mark a moment of silence to commemorate the grim milestone [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]

Lawsuit blames Saudi Arabia for 2019 attack at Florida army base

The lawsuit is filed on behalf of the families of three killed by a Saudi military trainee at a base in Florida.

The suit alleges that Saudi Arabia knew about Alshamrani's associations with al-Qaeda [File: Josh Brasted/Getty Images/AFP]

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Official Khamenei Website/Handout via REUTERS) and US President Joe Biden (REUTERS/Tom Brenner) (Reuters)

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Can Biden cool tensions with Iran?

Incoming US president open to rejoining international nuclear pact but insists on Iranian concessions first.

The United States has surpassed a horrifying milestone of 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 - more than any nation in the world. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]
The United States has surpassed a horrifying milestone of 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 - more than any nation in the world. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]
Hollywood Actor Tom Hanks arrives at the Oscars in Los Angeles on February 9, 2020. The star would later fall ill with the coronavirus. [Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP]
Hollywood Actor Tom Hanks arrives at the Oscars in Los Angeles on February 9, 2020. The star would later fall ill with the coronavirus. [Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP]
Fans watch from grass beyond the outfield as the Chicago Cubs play the Milwaukee Brewers in a spring training baseball game on February 29, 2020, in Mesa, Arizona. [Gregory Bull/AP Photo]
Fans watch from grass beyond the outfield as the Chicago Cubs play the Milwaukee Brewers in a spring training baseball game on February 29, 2020, in Mesa, Arizona. [Gregory Bull/AP Photo]
Judie Shape, who tested positive for coronavirus, blows a kiss to her family on March 11, 2020, at a care centre in Kirkland, Washington, near Seattle. [Ted S Warren/AP Photo]
Judie Shape, who tested positive for coronavirus, blows a kiss to her family on March 11, 2020, at a care centre in Kirkland, Washington, near Seattle. [Ted S Warren/AP Photo]
Deanna Butts reaches for one of the last packages of toilet paper at a grocery store in the Tenleytown area of Washington on March 17, 2020. [Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo]
Deanna Butts reaches for one of the last packages of toilet paper at a grocery store in the Tenleytown area of Washington on March 17, 2020. [Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo]
A homeless person sits on a wheelchair under the rain on Sunset Boulevard in the Echo Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles on April 6, 2020. Homeless people are particularly vulnerable to contracting and spreading the coronavirus. [Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo]
A homeless person sits on a wheelchair under the rain on Sunset Boulevard in the Echo Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles on April 6, 2020. Homeless people are particularly vulnerable to contracting and spreading the coronavirus. [Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo]
Workers wearing personal protective equipment bury bodies during the coronavirus pandemic in a trench on Hart Island in the Bronx borough of New York on April 9, 2020. [John Minchillo/AP Photo]
Workers wearing personal protective equipment bury bodies during the coronavirus pandemic in a trench on Hart Island in the Bronx borough of New York on April 9, 2020. [John Minchillo/AP Photo]
A doctor assists nurses as they treat a patient from a nursing home showing symptoms of COVID-19 at a hospital in Yonkers, New York, on April 20, 2020. [John Minchillo/AP Photo]
A doctor assists nurses as they treat a patient from a nursing home showing symptoms of COVID-19 at a hospital in Yonkers, New York, on April 20, 2020. [John Minchillo/AP Photo]
The family of Larry Hammond wave as a line of cars with friends and family - who could not attend his funeral because of the coronavirus - pass by their home in New Orleans on April 22, 2020. [Gerald Herbert/AP Photo]
The family of Larry Hammond wave as a line of cars with friends and family - who could not attend his funeral because of the coronavirus - pass by their home in New Orleans on April 22, 2020. [Gerald Herbert/AP Photo]
Miguel Lopez, right, and Noe Meza prepare to move a body of a COVID-19 victim to a morgue at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles on January 9, 2021. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]
Miguel Lopez, right, and Noe Meza prepare to move a body of a COVID-19 victim to a morgue at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles on January 9, 2021. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]
Nurse Joselito Florendo administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Michael Chesler at a mass vaccination site set up in the parking lot of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California on January 22, 2021. [Jae C Hong/AP Photo]
Nurse Joselito Florendo administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Michael Chesler at a mass vaccination site set up in the parking lot of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California on January 22, 2021. [Jae C Hong/AP Photo]
Nurse Patricia Carrete of El Paso, Texas, walks down a hallway during a night shift at a field hospital set up to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients on February 10, 2021, in Cranston, Rhode Island. [David Goldman/AP Photo]
Nurse Patricia Carrete of El Paso, Texas, walks down a hallway during a night shift at a field hospital set up to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients on February 10, 2021, in Cranston, Rhode Island. [David Goldman/AP Photo]
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In Pictures: US pandemic toll – one year, half a million lives
Precisely one year on, the United States has surpassed a horrifying milestone of 500,000 deaths from COVID-19.

Women linked to Abu Sayyaf suicide bombings arrested in Sulu

Suspects Philippine military calls ‘potential suicide bombers’ face illegal possession of explosives charges.

A military commander in Mindanao said the women have undergone an 'orientation' programme on suicide bombing and were assembling explosives in their homes [Joint Task Force-Sulu Handout photo]
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The ‘Greta Thunberg’s toolkit’ scandal and rule of law in India

The prosecution of activists for sharing a solidarity toolkit reflects the deepening institutional crisis in India.

Activists from United Hindu Front burn an effigy depicting climate change activist Greta Thunberg to protest against her comments in support of protesting farmers, in New Delhi on February 4, 2021 [Reuters/Danish Siddiqui]
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Is Algeria’s Hirak dead?

Although the Hirak faces major challenges, the revolutionary spirit in Algeria is alive and well.

Demonstrators shout slogans as they march to mark the second anniversary of a mass protest movement demanding political change in Algiers on February 22, 2021 [Reuters/Ramzi Boudina]

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