China announced on May 31 that married couples may have up to three children in a major shift from a limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world's most populous country.

International human rights groups have also condemned the move, which followed previous attempts by the government of Africa's most populous country to regulate social media.

India has the world's second-largest number of coronavirus infections after the United States with total cases at 28.8 million, according to health ministry data. The country has suffered 346,759 deaths.

Trump lapped up applause from Republican supporters as he described the United States as "being destroyed before our very own eyes" since he was voted out, and launched bitter criticism of his victorious rival President Joe Biden.

US military and intelligence found no evidence that seemingly highly advanced unidentified flying objects sighted by military pilots were alien spacecraft, the report concludes, according to The New York Times and other media briefed on it.

Netanyahu is facing the prospect of an end to his 12-year run as premier after Israel's centrist opposition leader Yair Lapid announced on Wednesday that he had succeeded in forming a governing coalition following a March 23 election.

The ministers from 21 economies that form the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation met virtually amid the pandemic, with New Zealand, the current APEC host, serving as chair.

As many countries in the world see a COVID-19 "resurgence" and many developing countries continue to struggle in the early stages of their vaccination drives, the EU foreign policy chief said that the hotly debated vaccine patent waiver wasn't necessarily the solution while offering little in the way of an alternative.

In 2020, the greying country saw 840,832 births, according to data released Thursday by the health and labour ministry.

Earlier in the day, the Chinese government criticized Taiwan for accepting more than 1 million doses of the vaccine developed by Britain's AstraZeneca from Japan, saying the island's ruling party, "has blocked vaccine shipments from the mainland."

The newspaper, which cited senior administration officials briefed on the findings of the highly anticipated report, said they were able to confirm the unusual vessels were not the product of secret Pentagon technology.

In recent years, the Communist-led government has adopted a hard-line attitude toward some democratic nations over its alleged human rights abuses against the Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang and security challenges posed to Taiwan and its vicinity.

The gratis vaccine doses, developed by AstraZeneca of Britain and manufactured domestically through license production, will arrive in Taipei by air later Friday, he told a press conference.

Members of a US Marshals task force were attempting to arrest a felon wanted on a state arrest warrant, according to a Marshals service statement issued by a Hennepin County Sheriff's Department spokesman.

Biden's team reviewed the blacklist issued by Trump administration, removing some names and ultimately expanding it to 59 firms that Americans are prohibited from having a stake in. Many are subsidiaries of companies already included.

The milestone comes six months after the first vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 began.

The blog "will not be returning," Trump aide Jason Miller told CNBC.

With less than three weeks until the June 22 primary election, the eight contenders traded barbs on education, experience and the economy, though the issue of public safety dominated much of the evening amid a spike in shootings and other crimes. The primary winner will be heavily favored to win November's general election.

Should it be confirmed by the 120-member Knesset legislature in the coming days, it would end the long reign of the hawkish right-wing leader known as Bibi, who has long dominated Israeli politics.

Asked by a reporter if he would take action against President Vladimir Putin, whom he will meet for a summit in Geneva later this month, Biden said: "We're looking closely at that issue."

The European Union's foreign policy chief is in Jakarta this week, heralding Indonesia as a very important partner in the Indo-Pacific region at the start of his visit.

"There will be a $1 billion request coming to the Pentagon this week from the (Israeli) defense minister to replenish the Iron Dome and a few other things, to upgrade the system," Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters in Jerusalem.

The government plans to eventually deploy around 20 F-35As to Komatsu Air Base in Ishikawa Prefecture, the sources said. Japan has already decided to acquire a total of 105 F-35As, with the aim of making the aircraft among its mainstay jets.

The Democratic leader marked the centenary of the massacre by meeting survivors in the city, after the White House announced new initiatives including billions of dollars in grants to address racial disparities in wealth, home ownership and small business ownership.

They only have until the end of the day -- 2059 GMT -- to cobble together an administration that would end 12 straight years of rule by the hawkish heavyweight, Israel's longest-ruling premier.

United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman said Indonesia and the US shared a vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

China's population has been aging, due largely to its "one-child policy" introduced in 1979, but it was scrapped in 2016 as worries grew that a rapidly aging population would constrain the nation's economic expansion.

In the first face-to-face meeting between heads of both countries in over 15 months, Australia and New Zealand presented a united front on China.

The flight from Dublin to Krakow made the unexpected diversion after a reported bomb threat, German newspaper Bild Zeitung said.

Moeris is among thousands of farmers in parts of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria states dealing with an infestion of mice that have ravaged crops, gnawed through farming equipment and household appliances, caused power blackouts and invaded supermarkets.