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A nationwide strike began in Myanmar on Monday despite threats of violence from the military [Lynn Bo Bo/EPA]

Myanmar begins general strike in face of military threats

Millions expected to join protests calling for restoration of democracy three weeks after military seized power.

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Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi from Argentina, speaks to the media after returning from Iran at the Vienna International Airport, Sunday, February 21, 2021 [Ronald Zak/AP]

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Nuclear watchdog says Iran will begin offering inspectors ‘less access’ but still allow it to monitor atomic programme.

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China has been under pressure from rights groups for years over its policies towards Uighur and other Muslim groups in the far western region of Xinjiang [File: Murad Sezer/Reuters]

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Bashagha has in recent months drawn the ire of several armed groups in Tripoli after announcing plans to demobilise militias and reintegrate them into the formal security apparatus [File: Fethi Belaid/AFP]

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Rescue workers carry an injured man after protests in Mandalay against the military coup [Reuters]

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Seven election officials killed in landmine blast as Niger votes

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Activists began reporting globs of black tar on Israel's coast last week [Amir Cohen/Reuters]

Israel shuts Mediterranean shore after oil spill devastates coast

Mahammad Javad Zarif says Donald Trump reimposed 800 sanctions put on Iran before the nuclear deal and imposed 800 new ones [Ernesto Mastrascusa/EPA-EFE]

US sanctions inflicted $1 trillion damage on Iran’s economy: FM

A medical worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Sputnik V vaccine in Buenos Aires on February 19 [Agustin Marcarian/Reuters]

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Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi from Argentina, speaks to the media after returning from Iran at the Vienna International Airport, Sunday, February 21, 2021 [Ronald Zak/AP]

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Employees of the city of Houston pass out free cases of water after the city implemented a boil water advisory following the winter storm [Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters]

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China has been under pressure from rights groups for years over its policies towards Uighur and other Muslim groups in the far western region of Xinjiang [File: Murad Sezer/Reuters]

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Bashagha has in recent months drawn the ire of several armed groups in Tripoli after announcing plans to demobilise militias and reintegrate them into the formal security apparatus [File: Fethi Belaid/AFP]

Libya’s powerful interior minister survives assassination attempt

Rescue workers carry an injured man after protests in Mandalay against the military coup [Reuters]

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Seven election officials killed in landmine blast as Niger votes

Seven election officials killed in landmine blast as Niger votes

Activists began reporting globs of black tar on Israel's coast last week [Amir Cohen/Reuters]

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Mahammad Javad Zarif says Donald Trump reimposed 800 sanctions put on Iran before the nuclear deal and imposed 800 new ones [Ernesto Mastrascusa/EPA-EFE]

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Rescuers and people gather near the debris of the plane [Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters]

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Palestinian vaccine drive faces funding shortfall: World Bank

Bank urges Israel, which has made the most progress globally on vaccination, to give Palestinians its surplus shots.

A Palestinian medical worker collects a swab sample from a boy to be tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the southern Gaza Strip [File: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

Two explosions in Afghanistan kill at least three: Officials

At least two people, including a child, killed in Kabul blast and one person killed by explosion in Helmand province.

Afghan security forces carry the body of a victim at the site of a bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, February 21, 2021 [Omar Sobhani/Reuters]

UK speeds up vaccine roll-out with lockdown easing in sight

Over 17.5 million people, a third of UK adults, have had at least one vaccine dose since inoculations began in December.

New target also calls for everyone 50 and above and those with an underlying health condition to get their first shot by mid-April [File: Neil Hall/EPA]

After deaths, WHO urges Tanzania to share COVID data, take action

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged Dodoma to take measures against the pandemic and to prepare for vaccinations.

Magufuli has claimed coronavirus has been fended off by prayer in Tanzania [File: Ericky Boniphace/AFP]

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The plane with more than 230 on board landed safely at Denver International Airport after the right engine failed.

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