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A Thai court on Monday overturned its order for an opposition figure to remove social media videos in which he criticised the government's coronavirus vaccine strategy, which he had called opaque, slow and unfairly favourable to a royalowned company.

The junta has so far refrained from using deadly force to quell the demonstrations sweeping most of the country, but with pressure building riot police fired water cannon in an attempt to disperse thousands gathered on a highway in Naypyidaw.

Police in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw used water cannon on Monday against protesters demonstrating against a coup a week ago when elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained, video from the scene showed.

The Saudiled military coalition engaged in Yemen said on Sunday it had intercepted and destroyed four armed drones launched by the Iranaligned Houthi movement towards southern Saudi Arabia.

Suspected Islamists killed 10 people in a raid on a village in eastern Democractic Republic of Congo and kidnapped several others, local authorities and a witness said.

The United Nations special envoy on Yemen is visiting Iran for the first time to discuss Yemen's humanitarian crisis, Iranian state TV reported on Sunday, days after Washington announced an end to its support for Saudiled military operations in Yemen.

The surge in popular dissent over the weekend overrode a nationwide blockade of the internet, similar in magnitude to an earlier shutdown that coincided with the arrest of Suu Kyi and other senior leaders on Monday.

Due to Covid-19, the conversation was held via telephone from the Oval Office in Washington to Michele, a mother from Roseville, California who lost her job at a start-up company because of the economic crisis sparked by the pandemic.

Just about a month ago, the U.S. Capitol was besieged by supporters of Donald Trump angered by the thenpresident's election loss. While lawmakers inside the building were voting to affirm Democrat Joe Biden's win, Trump loyalists were marching to Capitol...

President Donald Trump's administration had branded the Iranian-backed Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, a move that limited the provision of aid to the beleaguered Yemeni people, who have suffered under a yearslong civil war and famine.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on companies on Friday to share manufacturing facilities to help ramp up the production of COVID19 vaccines.

Three Democratic U.S. senators introduced a bill that would limit Section 230, a law that shields online companies from liability over content posted by users, and make the companies more accountable when posts result in harm.

One in five new coronavirus cases in Denmark was infected with the more contagious British variant in the last week of January, preliminary data showed on Friday, prompting experts to say lockdown restrictions were still necessary to curb the epidemic.

Germany on Friday ducked an appeal by Taiwan for its help to supply COVID19 vaccines, as the Asian tech powerhouse's request for assistance following Berlin's plea to ease a semiconductor supply crunch in the auto industry risked provoking China's ire.

Belgium was expected on Friday to allow hairdressers to reopen midmonth in a slight easing of COVID19 restrictions as serious infections slow in a country with one of the world's highest per capita death rates.

Voting on a new Libyan interim government moved to a second, runoff ballot on Friday after none of the four slates of candidates won enough support to secure victory in U.N. talks aimed at helping end a decade of violence and division.