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Russia has imposed economic sanctions against nine Ukrainian companies, expanding a list of firms that it targets with such penalties, according to a government decree.

Two 11weekold white tiger cubs that died in a Pakistani zoo last month appear to have died of COVID19, officials said.

So far, only one of the first five teams approved last week has actually been announced and deployed. That 222-member team from Fort Carson, Colorado, has arrived in Los Angeles.

Germany will have difficulties making use of all available COVID19 vaccines in April, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview with broadcaster ZDF on Friday.

The United Nations human rights investigator for Myanmar said on Friday there were "growing reports, photographic evidence" that security forces have used live ammunition against protesters, in violation of international law.

Australia's secondmost populous city will enter a fiveday snap coronavirus lockdown, authorities said on Friday, barring spectators from the Australian Open tennis tournament.

Texas Road Accident: At least six people were killed in the pileup, and 65 others were treated at hospitals for injuries, including three initially listed in critical condition, fire and rescue officials told reporters later in the day.

Facing criticism that President Joe Biden has not acted aggressively enough on reopening schools, the White House on Thursday said its aiming for a full reopening but will defer to science experts on how to achieve it in the middle of a pandemic.

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalnys staff say police are conducting a latenight search at his organizations headquarters.

The moves comes days after Britain's media regulator Ofcom revoked licence of China Global Television Network to broadcast in the United Kingdom.

Sewage samples from a new nationwide COVID19 monitoring system show that in some French cities traces of coronavirus are spiking above levels seen during the second wave of the epidemic in the autumn.

Christoph Hueck illustrates the challenge Germany faces in rolling out a mass vaccination campaign to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. A scientist living in a wealthy, hightech region, he does not plan to have any of the shots on offer.

Authorities in Australia stepped up contact tracing and called for people in the city of Melbourne to come forward for coronavirus testing on Thursday as the number of infections in a cluster linked to a quarantine hotel rose to 11.

The Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership (RCEP) is unlikely to bring immediate significant benefits for its developing member countries in terms of flow of goods and services or major infrastructure investments, analysts and economists said.

Malaysia will extend its free COVID19 vaccination programme to all foreigners residing in the country, including students, refugees and undocumented migrants, the government said on Thursday.

The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say.