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The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is releasing millions of COVID19 vaccine doses it had been holding back for second shots and urged states to offer them to all Americans over age 65 or with chronic health conditions.

British fighter jets escorted a private aircraft into London's Stansted Airport after it lost communications with the ground on Tuesday, sparking alarm after they broke the sound barrier in response to the incident.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Tuesday for the creation of an EUwide COVID19 vaccination certificate to help restore crossborder travel that has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.

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

Britain is facing the worst weeks of the COVID19 pandemic, its chief medical officer said on Monday, with the health service facing a "dangerous time" as deaths and cases hit record highs before the rollout of a mass vaccination programme.

They came from across America, summoned by President Donald Trump to march on Washington in support of his false claim that the November election was stolen and to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden as the victor.

Here are some facts about the airplane and airline involved in the crash of a Boeing 737500 jet operated by Sriwijaya Air on an Indonesian domestic flight on Saturday, with 62 people on board.

The FBI and Washington's police department will jointly investigate the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died from injuries he sustained while defending the U.S. Capitol, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said on Friday.

Belgium's parliament has launched a security review of its premises in Brussels after supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Russia and China are opposed to a candidate from Fiji seen as a staunch human rights defender to lead the top U.N. rights body, diplomats and observers say, creating a deadlock just as the United States may seek to rejoin the forum it quit in 2018.

People entering England and Scotland will have to show a negative COVID19 test result starting next week as authorities try to ramp up protection against new, more infectious strains of the coronavirus from other countries.

The European Union reached a deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 300 million additional doses of their COVID19 vaccine, doubling the amount of doses from these producers, the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.

Indonesian Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the suspected mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, walked free from prison on Friday after serving 10 years for setting up a militant training camp.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday banned the government from importing new coronavirus vaccines from the United States and Britain.

British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Friday there were concerns that COVID19 vaccines might not work properly against the highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus discovered in South Africa.