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With more than half of America reluctant or flatly opposed to getting a COVID19 vaccine, a VIPfilled video call on Thursday targeted the nations military families with an urgent plea: Get the shot.

The Biden administration is reviewing whether it can take steps to provide student debt relief through executive action, even as it continues to call on Congress to pass legislation to help borrowers and their families.

China donated half a million doses of Sinopharm vaccines to Pakistan which sent a special plane to airlift the jabs on Monday.

The world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said on Thursday, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots in a world first.

A prominent Lebanese Shi'ite publisher who criticized Iranbacked Hezbollah was found shot dead in a car in southern Lebanon on Thursday, two security sources and his family said.

A prominent Lebanese Shi'ite critic of Iranbacked Hezbollah was found dead in a car in southern Lebanon on Thursday, two security sources and local media said.

New vaccination centers are to open this month in the heart of two urban California communities especially hard hit by the coronavirus, as state and federal officials try to tackle racial and economic disparities hindering U.S. immunization efforts.

Half of Afghans need humanitarian aid but rising violence is preventing deliveries, a senior European Union humanitarian official said on Wednesday, reiterating calls for a ceasefire between the Afghan government and the insurgent Taliban.

A group of protesters waved banners and chanted anticoup slogans in Myanmar's second city of Mandalay on Thursday in the first such street protest against this week's army takeover, images on social media showed.

A former Cook Islands prime minister was on Thursday named the new Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum after marathon talks that threaten to fracture the grouping that promotes regional peace, harmony and security.

The European Union on Wednesday rebuffed a British demand to extend a grace period for checks on goods going from Britain to Northern Ireland, saying the postBrexit trade treaty gave London enough tools to solve the problems.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has opened a transition office in northern Virginia.

Pete Buttigieg, sworn in Wednesday as transportation secretary, urged his 55,000 employees to embrace imaginative, bold, forward thinking as the Transportation Department embarks on a vital mission to rebuild Americas infrastructure and foster equality.

Britain's government condemned on Wednesday the harassment of chief medical officer Chris Whitty, when a young man videoed himself calling the medic a "liar" over the COVID19 pandemic while he was queuing for food in central London.

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday his government would not allow monthlong demonstrations at a Turkish university to grow into antigovernment protests similar to those in 2013, calling the protesters "terrorists".

Myanmar's fragile ceasefire with several armed ethnic insurgent movements is in danger of unraveling after a military coup this week, a senior representative of a coalition of rebel groups told Reuters on Wednesday.