Tamila Varshalomidze

COVID news from Jan­u­ary 15: UN-backed vac­cine-shar­ing pro­gramme has de­liv­ered one bil­lion dos­es to 144 na­tions.

COVID news up­date from Jan­u­ary 14: Dutch PM says shops, hair­dressers and uni­ver­si­ties will be al­lowed to re­open.

Antony Blinken and Sergey Lavrov meet for dis­cus­sions in Stock­holm as con­cerns rise over es­ca­la­tion in east­ern Ukraine.

Mem­bers of UN health agency reach draft con­sen­sus on fu­ture pan­dem­ic treaty as UK says it will call ur­gent G7 meet­ing.

World lead­ers gath­ered on the first day of COP26 to dis­cuss ur­gent ac­tion to com­bat glob­al warm­ing.

Move comes af­ter Su­dan’s mil­i­tary takes pow­er, de­clares a state of emer­gency, and ar­rests in­ter­im PM Ab­dal­la Ham­dok.

Pres­i­dent Michel Aoun vows to bring per­pe­tra­tors to jus­tice, as six killed by gun­fire and more than 30 oth­ers wound­ed.

An­nu­al Gen­er­al De­bate kicks off in New York with speech­es from UN chief and lead­ers of US, Chi­na and Iran.

Biden says an open-end­ed mis­sion in Afghanistan had ‘no clear pur­pose’ and choice was be­tween leav­ing or es­ca­lat­ing.

Tal­iban hails with­draw­al of US forces as a ‘his­toric mo­ment’ and says the coun­try has now gained ‘full in­de­pen­dence’.