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Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Myanmar’s major cities for a ninth straight day of anticoup demonstrations on Sunday, after a fearful night as residents formed patrols and the army rolled back laws protecting freedoms.

More than 100 people were injured and trains halted over a wide swathe of northeastern Japan on Sunday after the region was jolted by a major earthquake in the same area as the 2001 Fukushima quake that set off a tsunami nearly 10 years ago.

The University of Oxford has launched a study to assess the safety and immune response of the COVID19 vaccine it has developed with AstraZeneca Plc in children for the first time, it said on Saturday.

Crime syndicates in Asia’s drugproducing Golden Triangle region have likely begun producing ingredients to manufacture methamphetamine, enabling them to avoid restrictions on importing precursors such as pseudoephedrine and ephedrine.

A Japanese health panel on Friday night recommended approval of Pfizer Inc's COVID19 vaccine the first in the country as Japan tries to tame a third wave of infections in the runup to the Summer Olympics.

China's space agency released two videos providing a closeup glimpse of Mars on Friday, captured as its Tianwen1 probe entered the red planet's orbit, saying the spacecraft was sending a Lunar New Year greeting to Earth.

Donald Trumps lawyers have a simple objective as they open their defense at the former presidents impeachment trial: Dont lose any Republican votes.

From a skyway operator in Australia to a tourist guide on Indonesia's resort island of Bali and a lion dance troupe in Malaysia, Asia's travel industry is hurting as coronavirus curbs keep most people home for the Lunar New Year.

Hundreds of protesters opposed to Myanmar's coup demonstrated at the Chinese embassy in Yangon on Thursday accusing Beijing of supporting the military junta despite Chinese denials.

A powerful 7.7 magnitude undersea earthquake struck the South Pacific on Thursday, triggering tsunami warnings in the region that were later cancelled, with no immediate reports of damage.

Adding a cloth mask over a medical mask, or knotting and tucking the medical mask to fit better, reduced the cumulative exposure of the unmasked receiver by 82 percent and 63 percent.

The New Zealand National Emergency Management Agency released a statement telling people in coastal areas to move away from waterfronts.

A plant in Belgium said to be the cause of big cuts in AstraZeneca's COVID19 vaccine supplies to the European Union said on Wednesday it had produced all doses required under a contract it has with the AngloSwedish firm.

Ukraine's health ministry agreed in December to buy 1.9 million doses of the vaccine from China's Sinovac Biotech at $18 per dose via a Ukrainian intermediary, the pharmaceutical firm Lekhim.

Every day up to 30 children gather for school lessons in a narrow village street in Egypt's northern Dakahlia province.

Palestinians opened election registration offices in Gaza and the West Bank on Wednesday, one day after rival factions agreed steps to ensure that the first elections in 15 years go ahead.