The Jewish state has launched an aggressive coronavirus vaccine campaign on Israeli territory, an effort widely regarded as the world's fastest per capita.

With a population of only about 450 million, the EU has reserved nearly 2.3 billion vaccine doses.

Tens of thousands of farmers have camped on the outskirts of the capital for more than two months, protesting new agricultural laws they say benefit private buyers at the expense of growers.

CNN cited unnamed sources as saying that five lawyers -- including two who were thought to be leading the team -- had parted ways with the Republican billionaire after disagreeing over his legal strategy.

Several dozen people carrying signs demanding the end of lockdowns and promoting anti-vaccination conspiracy theories gathered at the entrance to the site, one of the largest in the US, social media posts showed.

The changes are among a raft of recommendations presented to the government by the Climate Change Commission on steps New Zealand must take to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change.

Founded in the United States in 2013, the movement received an impetus in May after George Floyd died. A white policeman had knelt on Floyd's neck for eight minutes ignoring Floyd's pleas that he couldn't breathe. 

The government will ask the country's roughly 5,800 community pharmacies to apply for the program, which would pay them to administer inoculations, along with doctors and hospital health workers.

From Sunday afternoon, anyone with a British National (Overseas) passport and their dependents will be able to apply online for a visa allowing them to live and work in the United Kingdom. After five years they can then apply for citizenship.

An inspection of a Belgian plant producing the vaccine was carried out at the request of the European Commission to examine production problems at the site.

The Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has been recognized as one of the most influential think tanks in the world, according to the 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index.

Three patients were found dead at the Matei Bals hospital in Bucarest and a fourth died despite attempts at resuscitation, state secretary of the Ministry of Interior Raed Arafat told reporters.  

The update by the Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency followed reports that dozens of mainly elderly people had died in Norway and other European countries after receiving a first shot of the vaccine.

During the Trump administration, Jokowi never visited the White House and Trump never visited Indonesia, an indication that not much was going on between the two countries at the leadership level.

Health officials are reassessing daily a pause on Australia's travel corridor with New Zealand after the Pacific nation's strong response to an outbreak of a contagious strain of COVID-19, while borders between Australia's two most populous states may next week open freely for the first time this year.

Australians searching for any term were presented with a pop-up setting out the company's opposition to proposed legislation that would force them to pay news companies for content.

The meeting came three weeks after McCarthy enraged Trump by saying the then-outgoing president bore responsibility for the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol by Trump supporters.

The group started a two-week quarantine on arrival on January 14 in the central Chinese city where the first known cluster of virus cases emerged in late 2019.

European Council President Charles Michel welcomed the move in a letter to the leaders of four member states, saying: "The EU needs to take robust action to secure its supply of vaccines and demonstrate concretely that the protection of its citizens remains our absolute priority."

This year's travel season, called "Chunyun" in Chinese, will last for 40 days through March 8, during which around 3 billion trips were made every year before the outbreak prompted the leadership of President Xi Jinping to restrict movements of people.

The comments -- which closely echo Chinese government complaints -- are likely to anger Canberra, while exposing the different approaches towards China by New Zealand and its "Five Eyes" intelligence partners Australia, the United States, Canada and Britain.

The decision on setting the hands of the clock is taken by board members from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the world's first atomic weapons.

The US-China relationship was "arguably the most important relationship that we have in the world," he told reporters.

The violence marked a dramatic escalation in a standoff between the government and thousands of farmers who have been camped on the outskirts of Delhi since late November demanding that new agricultural reforms be scrapped.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who will seek reelection, was a staunch supporter of former US president Donald Trump whose social media accounts were shut after the Capitol invasion in Washington January 6.

Australia's most populous state NSW has recorded no local cases for 10 days after low single digit numbers earlier in January.

In phone talks hours after Blinken won Senate confirmation as the chief US diplomat, Motegi welcomed affirmation by the new US administration that the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea fall under a bilateral security treaty. China claims sovereignty of the islands, calling them Diaoyu.

Released on Wednesday, the poll organised by Oxford University and the United Nations used pop-up surveys on online games like Angry Birds to solicit answers from hard-to-reach groups including those too young to vote. The survey included responses from more than 1.2 million people in 50 countries, the largest survey ever on climate change.

The United States, which passed 25 million confirmed cases last weekend, remains the country with the largest outbreak -- and the largest death toll of over 420,000.

Jose Gregorio Diaz, who heads the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Basin (COICA), said his people faced a "health emergency" and urgently need vaccines.