#BREAKING France, Italy call EU agency's comments on AstraZeneca "encouraging"
#BREAKING French PM vows to get AstraZeneca jab "quickly" if approval given
#UPDATE The EU's medicines regulator said it was "firmly convinced" the benefits of AstraZeneca's vaccine outweigh potential risks, insisting there was no evidence linking it to blood clots after several nations suspended the shot over health fears u.afp.com/UxXc
VIDEO: EU regulator says no indication so far AstraZeneca jab causes clots.
EU medicines agency chief Emer Cooke says regulator is "firmly convinced" the benefits of AstraZeneca's vaccine outweigh potential risks, after a host of nations suspended the shot over blood clot fears
Thailand's prime minister has received the AstraZeneca vaccine as the nation begins the drug's rollout, lifting a suspension that was triggered by EU nations raising safety concerns
📸Workers clean a Bangkok market after over 100 residents in the area tested positive for Covid
Australia asks AstraZeneca and EU for urgent access to one million vaccines to deal with an alarming Covid-19 surge in Papua New Guinea.
PM Morrison says he wants to divert doses that Australia has ordered and paid for "as soon as possible", to address a Covid explosion in PNG
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#BREAKING Anti-Asian violence 'must end,' ex-US president Obama says after Atlanta shootings
#BREAKING Suspect in deadly Atlanta, Georgia spa shootings has told authorities attacks were 'not racially motivated': officials
#UPDATE A 21-year-old gunman with a "sex addiction" has taken responsibility for killing eight people - six of them Asian - in spas around the southern US city of Atlanta, but denied a racial motive to the attacks
#BREAKING Biden says he agrees that Putin is a 'killer'
#BREAKING US President Biden agreeing Putin is a killer is an 'attack' on Russia: parliament speaker
#UPDATE US President Joe #Biden said he agrees with the assessment that his Russian counterpart Vladimir #Putin is a "killer", in an interview with ABC News broadcast Wednesday u.afp.com/UxD5
The EU will unveil Wednesday a proposed European vaccine pass to ease travel, an idea pushed by tourist hotspots such as Greece that are desperate to save their crippled economies u.afp.com/Uxbf
#BREAKING EU unveils plan for digital Covid travel certificate to help restore 'freedom of movement' within bloc in 'safe, responsible and trusted manner': von der Leyen
VIDEO: 🇪🇺 EU chief Ursula von der Leyen unveils a plan to set up a digital travel certificate to help restore 'freedom of movement' within the bloc in a 'safe, responsible and trusted manner' #VaccinePassports#digitalgreenpass
VIDEO: No peaceful resolution for Myanmar coup situation: analyst.
Alarmed at the strength of the opposition to the coup, the Myanmar junta is trying to instill fear with increasing violence, says Khin Zaw Win, the director of the Tampadipa Institute, a Yangon-based think-tank
Who is supplying Myanmar military with arms?
#AFPgraphics on the companies that supply the most arms to Myanmar, according to the findings of a report to the UN Human Rights Council in 2019
WHO safety experts prepared to meet Tuesday to discuss the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine whose rollout has been halted in several European countries over blood clot fears, imperilling the pandemic fight as infection rates surge in several countries u.afp.com/UxmE
#BREAKING European Medicines Agency 'still firmly convinced' of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine benefits: regulator head
#BREAKING EU medicines regulator says investigating serious side effects of 'all vaccines'