Taipei said former senator Christopher Dodd and former deputy secretaries of state Richard Armitage and James Steinberg would land in the capital on Wednesday afternoon.

Out of nearly seven million Americans who have so far received the single-dose vaccine, six women between age 18 and 48 developed a rare type of clot in the brain, officials said.

Mask-clad worshipers entered Mecca's Grand Mosque in batches to perform the ritual of circling the sacred Kaaba, a cubic structure towards which Muslims around the world pray, along socially distanced paths.

The drawdown delays only by around five months an agreement with the Taliban by former president Donald Trump to pull troops, amid a growing consensus in Washington that little more can be achieved.

The mayor of Brooklyn Center, which is adjacent to Minnesota's largest city, said the two tendered their resignations a day after the chief told a news briefing that the officer who shot Daunte Wright, 20, on Sunday appeared to have drawn her gun rather than her Taser by mistake.

"Restaurants in the emirate can choose whether or not to place curtains or cover their facades for serving food during fasting hours," the Department of Economic Development said in a statement.

The United States has shown understanding of the Japanese plan, but Zhao expressed skepticism about it, saying China believes Washington "attaches importance to environmental issues."

The Jakarta Post speaks to Wikimedia Foundation's Amanda Keton on its new Universal Code of Conduct, which essentially applies Wikimedia's "free knowledge" concept to build on its existing code to support broader diversity and encourage community ownership of enforcing acceptable behavior across all platforms.

Wong, 24, had pleaded guilty to both charges, including taking part in and using a facial covering at an unauthorized assembly in October 2019 during the height of anti-government protests, the court heard.

Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and two US warships are due to arrive in the Black Sea this week amid an escalation in fighting in eastern Ukraine where government forces have battled Russian-backed troops in a conflict Kyiv says has killed 14,000 people.

Europe, the worst-hit continent, passed the threshold of one million coronavirus deaths, while South Asian countries battle a spiralling outbreak of the disease that has crippled the global economy. 

Bassem Awadallah, seen as an influential figure familiar with the inner workings of the Saudi leadership, was ensnared in a rift within Jordan's royal family that played out in full public glare.

The death toll across Europe's 52 countries, compiled by AFP from official sources, totalled at least 1,000,288 by 1830 GMT.

The Chinese activity was likely a response to closer ties being forged between the United States and Taiwan. The United States said Friday it has issued new guidelines to encourage US government engagement with Taiwan, with which it has no diplomatic ties.

The gunfire, which erupted at about 3:15 p.m. at Austin-East Magnet High School on the east side of Knoxville, marked the latest in a rash of shootings in the United States since mid-March.

In police body camera video released in Brooklyn Center where Sunday's killing occurred, an officer shouts "Taser! Taser! Taser!" but then instead fires a gun at the victim, 20-year-old Daunte Wright.

The move, more than a decade after the nuclear disaster, will deal another blow to the fishing industry in Fukushima, which has opposed such a step for years.

The diplomats had been quarantined in Shanghai amid the novel coronavirus pandemic after arriving in China's largest commercial city on March 21.

Brazil, which had overtaken India last month to become the world's second most infected country, has slightly over 13.48 million cases, according to the same tally.

EU spokesman Peter Stano said the reported incident "could have been an act of sabotage" but insisted that there had been no official attribution over who was responsible. 

The Japanese government is expected to hold a meeting of related ministers as early as Tuesday to formally decide on the release, a major development following over seven years of discussions on how to discharge the water used to cool down melted fuel at the plant.

Khatibzadeh indirectly accused Israel of attempting to scuttle talks underway in Vienna aimed at reviving a landmark nuclear agreement.

New Zealand has virtually eliminated the COVID-19 virus within its borders and there's been no community transmission for more 40 days.

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said the incident at the facility central to the country's nuclear development, was caused by a "terrorist act," but the organization said that no injuries or contamination resulted.

Kerry is expected to hold talks with Xie Zhenhua, China's special representative on climate affairs, in the first trip to the Asian country by a senior official of the administration of US President Joe Biden, who took office in January.

The storm, which devastated parts of Indonesia and Timor Leste last week, brought lashing rain and winds of up to 170 kilometers per hour to areas officials said had not seen a tropical cyclone in "decades".

Conservative Lasso declared himself president-elect and accepted the "challenge" of changing Ecuador's "destiny."

"What we've seen, and what is of real concern to us, is increasingly aggressive actions by the government in Beijing directed at Taiwan, raising tensions in the (Taiwan) Straits," Blinken told NBC's "Meet the Press."

About 100 people, some visibly upset and one carrying a sign declaring "Justice for George Floyd," confronted police in riot gear after an officer shot a man in his car in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb.

Behrouz Kamalvandi said there had been "an accident in part of the electrical circuit of the (uranium) enrichment facility" at the Natanz complex, a day after Iran announced it had started up advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges at the site in a breach of its undertakings under a troubled 2015 nuclear deal.