The survey was carried out on healthcare workers at the largest hospital in Israel, which on December 19 launched a mass vaccination campaign regarded as the world's fastest.

On February 23, Spain marks 40 years since a failed coup attempt triggered a cultural revolution within the military, leading to its forced modernization and social integration.

Joe Biden will make his presidential debut on the world stage on Friday as America's G7 partners re-focus their collective heft on pandemic recovery and climate change after the psychodramas of the Trump era.

The historic frigid blast has over the past week seen Arctic cold envelope much of the US sun belt unfamiliar with such extremes, leaving dozens of dead in its wake and several million Texans told to boil water before consuming it.

Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey will take part in a remote video hearing coordinated jointly by two Congress subcommittees, one devoted to communications and technology and the other to consumer protection and commerce, the political bodies announced on Thursday.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg held talks with the Australian government Friday over a law that would force the social media giant to pay for content, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison insisted the country would not bend to "threats" from big tech.

As political rivals called for his resignation, Cruz justified the flight by saying that his one-night stay in Cancun was to drop his children off before he flew home.

Speaking to reporters after an online meeting of the Quad group, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said the ministers also affirmed the need to swiftly restore democracy in Myanmar, where the national military staged a coup on Feb. 1.

Before dawn children were up hurling snowballs at each other outside the Old City gates, as the faithful trudged to sites holy to Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

Jack Barber, a 25-year-old student, was among 7,477 spectators in the stadium watching Japan's Naomi Osaka defeat the United States' Serena Williams to go through to the ladies final.

The grouping of the four major democracies in the Indo-Pacific, formally known as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is widely considered a united front maintained in response to China's rise in the nearby waters and alleged human rights abuses.

"The conversation was very warm and friendly and continued for approximately one hour," according to a statement by Netanyahu's media adviser.

The country worst hit by coronavirus in Africa has registered more than 140,000 excess natural deaths since May 2020, according to the South African Medical Research Council.

Thousands of sea turtles unused to the plunge in temperatures have been washing up on the beaches of South Padre Island, off the southern coast of Texas. Volunteers have brought some 4,700 of them to a convention centre, where they are being kept in tubs and enclosures before they can be released when the water is warmer.

Discussion among the Quad's foreign ministers is "critical" to advancing the countries' shared goals of a free and open Indo-Pacific and rising to meet global challenges, including coordinating efforts to address the coronavirus pandemic and climate change, department spokesperson Ned Price said Wednesday.

Fire, health and meteorological services around the country saw problems with their Facebook pages, amid several serious public emergencies. 

Opening a special Security Council session on vaccines held at the level of foreign ministers, Guterres warned that just 10 nations have administered 75 percent of the doses so far -- and 130 countries have had no vaccinations at all.

Under the agreement, Japan will shoulder 201.7 billion yen ($1.90 billion) in the year starting next April for the so-called host nation support, helping cover some 55,000 U.S. military personnel in Japan.

The term "Islamo-leftism" is usually used in France by far-right politicians to discredit left-wing opponents they accuse of being blind to the dangers of Islamist extremism and overly worried about racism and identity.

The attackers stormed the Government Science college in the Kagara district at around 2 a.m., overwhelming the school's security detail, local residents said.

Sweden in January adopted a pandemic law giving the government new powers to curb the spread of the virus.

The operation involving the guided missile destroyer Russell comes as China has rattled the region in recent years through large-scale island-building and base construction activities in the sea, including in the islands.

"They will never make us give in, despite the repression," shouted Pablo Hasel, 32, his fist raised as officers in riot gear escorted him out of the building after an early-morning raid on the Catalan university where he'd been holed up. 

The country has been slow to launch inoculations against the coronavirus, starting its program later than at least 70 other countries as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's public support dwindles amid criticism of a sluggish pandemic response.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has proposed a new plan that allows five female lawmakers to join the party's key meetings as observers.

Estimating that the eruption from Etna's southeastern crater began late Tuesday afternoon, Branco insisted that the latest burst of activity was "not at all worrying".

More than 20 storm-related deaths have been registered so far, including in traffic accidents in Texas, Kentucky and Missouri, according to local media.

The New York Times published Monday an angry letter relatives sent Adam Kinzinger, a six-term congressman from Illinois, following his vote to formally accuse Trump of inciting the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Unlike PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests that must be analysed in a lab, antigen testing can be done from saliva with a result given on the spot within 30 minutes.

Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday in the first resurgence of the disease there since the 2013-2016 outbreak, while the Democratic Republic of Congo reported a resurgence of the virus on Feb. 7.