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China says to produce 610 million Covid-19 vaccine doses this year

China expects to produce 610 million vaccine doses by the end of this year, with annual production capacity to reach at least one billion doses next year

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Kim Jong-un sorry over 'defector' shooting

It was the first killing of a Southern citizen by North Korean forces for a decade

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Last stand in Yemen

Huthi rebels have long held the capital Sanaa which lies just 120km away and are mounting a fierce campaign to take the oil-rich province

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Rio postpones carnival

Brazil's parades, the world's biggest, is an epidemiologist's nightmare in a pandemic

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France bemoans new restrictions

President Emmanuel Macron's centrist govt announced a series of new measures on Wednesday to try to slow the spread of the disease

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Queen Elizabeth II's finances take hit

Officials also said Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were now paying commercial rent on their UK residence at Windsor Castle

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'Enough is enough'

China livid at US attacks over its handling of Covid-19 at Security Council

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Russia's season of war games unites West-weary allies

Large scale war games kicked off in southern Russia this week, involving a total of 80,000 people including more than 12,000 troops

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HK activist Joshua Wong arrested for 2019 'unlawful assembly'

The detention of Hong Kong's most high-profile dissident comes after China imposed a sweeping new national security law in late June

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EU refuses to recognise Lukashenko as Belarus president

Alexander Lukashenko's secret inauguration triggered fresh condemnation in the West and new mass demonstrations in Belarus

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North Korea shot dead South Korean defector, say officials

The fisheries official disappeared from a patrol vessel near the western border island of Yeonpyeong on Monday, before reappearing 24 hours later

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Trump refuses to promise transfer of power if he loses US vote

Trump has frequently claimed, without evidence, that mail-in ballots are vulnerable to mass fraud

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Protests erupt in US over charges in Breonna Taylor shooting

One of the three police officers involved was charged with "wanton endangerment", while all three were not charged with her death