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The Trump administration moved on Tuesday to accelerate vaccinations of Americans against COVID19, releasing the rest of the doses it had been keeping in reserve and recommending states immediately open inoculations to those age 65 and over.

Italy reported 616 coronavirusrelated deaths on Tuesday, up from 448 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections rose to 14,242 from 12,532.

A federal judge in Indiana blocked Tuesday's scheduled execution of convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row in the United States, to allow a hearing on whether she is too mentally ill to be put to death.

On January 6 he told a large crowd in Washington that the presidential election was stolen and that they should march on Congress and show 'strength'.

The Dutch government is expected to announce a threeweek extension of COVID19 lockdown measures on Tuesday evening, national broadcaster NOS reported.

An Irish inquiry into alarming death rates among newborns at churchrun homes for unwed mothers will hand down its final report on Tuesday, laying bare one of the Catholic Church's darkest chapters.

Brazil's main environmental enforcement agency, Ibama, handed out 20% fewer fines in 2020, a Brazilian nonprofit factchecking initiative said on Tuesday, as the government rolls back conservation efforts and Amazon deforestation skyrockets.

Israel may include children over the age of 12 in groups receiving COVID19 vaccines within the next two months if research shows this is safe, a top health official said on Tuesday.

The executive director of a national group that advocates for Republican attorneys general has resigned in the fallout of a robocall urging people to march to the U.S. Capitol ahead of the violent assault last week.

Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz went on trial in a Geneva court on Monday on corruption and forgery charges linked to mining concessions in the West African nation of Guinea.

Biden has called the current $600 round of cash a "down payment," and early last week he said USD 2,000 checks would go out "immediately" if his party took control of both houses of Congress.

Associated with the magazine for more than three decades — much of Ved Mehta's magnum opus began as articles in its pages — he was widely considered the 20th-century writer most responsible for introducing American readers to India.

Iran said on Sunday that South Korea should avoid politicising the seizure of its vessel by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Gulf, Iranian state media reported, while pressing Seoul to release $7 billion in funds frozen amid U.S. sanctions.

Nationalist politician Sadyr Japarov won a landslide victory on Sunday in Kyrgyzstan's snap presidential election, which was triggered by the collapse of the previous government.

Indonesia's chequered air safety record is again in the spotlight after a Sriwijaya Air jet carrying 62 people crashed into the Java Sea minutes after takeoff on Saturday, marking the country's third major airline crash in just over six years.

Landslides caused by heavy rain in western Indonesia killed 11 and injured 18, the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) said on Sunday.