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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) will consider the government's suggestion to take into account house prices when formulating monetary policy, Governor Adrian Orr said on Tuesday.

Britain is on track to make COVID19 vaccines widely available by next spring after the shot developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca was up to 90% effective in trials, the head of the university's Jenner Institute said on Monday.

Forces of Ethiopia's Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) have destroyed an airport in the ancient town of Axum, stateaffiliated media said on Monday, as advancing federal troops gave them a 72hour ultimatum to surrender.

The British government is looking at reducing the time people have to selfisolate if they come into contact with someone with COVID19 from the current 14 days through the use of a new testing regime, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday.

Moncef Slaoui also said that based on plans, the amount of the population who need to be vaccinated for life to return to normal is likely to happen in May.

Pakistan opener Fakhar Zaman will miss the tour of New Zealand.

The social media giant is "actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021," Twitter spokesperson Nick Pacilio told Politico in an email.

The salvo slammed into various parts of central and north Kabul, including near the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses embassies and international companies, just before 9:00 am (0430 GMT).

Pompeo will also see Qatar's ruler, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, and the foreign minister on his stop to Doha, the Taliban's base for diplomacy both with the Kabul government and earlier the United States, the State Department said on its public...

Mainland China reported 16 new COVID19 cases on Nov. 20, down from 17 the previous day, with seven cases of local transmission and nine cases originating overseas, the country's health authority said on Saturday.

Wisconsin's governor issued an emergency health order on Friday requiring face masks indoors except at home, a move aimed at slowing a surge in coronavirus infections that is pushing hospitals to the limits of their capacity.

United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres warned against any unilateral moves on Yemen when asked on Friday about U.S. threats to blacklist Yemen's Houthi group, a move that aid groups worry could prevent the delivery of humanitarian help.

Britain has formally asked its medical regulator, the MHRA, to assess the vaccine being produced by Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech, health minister Matt Hancock said on Friday.

A meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Michigan Republicans on Friday is not an "advocacy meeting" and will not include campaign officials, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said, without providing further details of the meeting agen...

Andrew Giuliani, a White House aide and son of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, said Friday he had tested positive for COVID19.

Mirsad Zahirovic is a universityeducated journalist and activist who moonlights as a waiter because he is not a member of one of the ruling political parties, which is almost the only way to get a job in his native Bosnia.