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Stockpile sought for use in rebel-held territories, asylum camps and for others unlikely to receive vaccinations Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePublic health groups are lobbying countries to commit a portion of their Covid-…
World leaders call for halt to fighting that has killed more than 500 people in 17 daysRussia has made a fresh appeal to Armenia and Azerbaijan to respect a badly fraying ceasefire in the breakaway South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh, with both s…
Russia says two countries’ foreign ministers have found common ground after French journalists injured during shellingRussia and Turkey’s foreign ministers have agreed to the need for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, according…
Tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh region have caused one of Europe’s ‘frozen conflicts’ to eruptEarly on Sunday 27 September, Armenia announced it was declaring martial law, mobilising its army and ordering civilians to shelter. It claimed its neighbour A…
Nagorno-Karabakh provides crucial transit routes for gas and oil to international marketAt least 16 troops and civilians have been killed in the worst fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces since 2016, raising fears of instability in a region…
Study focuses on post-9/11 wars in which US initiated combat or took part in military operationsConflicts with US military involvement have displaced at least 37 million people since the beginning of the “war on terror” nearly two decades ago, a report…
Rajapaksa expected to dominate elections held five months after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa sacked parliamentary assembly Sri Lankans have begun voting in parliamentary elections twice delayed by the coronavirus, with results expected to further entre…
Iran’s president estimates 25m could be infected; mass health screenings in Xinjiang; Australian parliament suspendedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIran’s president says an estimated 25 million people in the country could b…
Part of Galicia under strict orders until Friday; Philippines reports its most daily cases yetCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpain has ringfenced more than 70,000 people in Galicia in the second local lockdown ordered in as…
Company agrees to change branding to promote ‘more inclusive vision of beauty’The Indian arm of the consumer goods group Unilever says it will change the name of its skin-lightening cosmetics range Fair & Lovely and stop using terms such as “whiten…
First loss of life in area in at least 45 years comes amid renewed dispute Twenty members of India’s armed forces have been killed in a “violent face-off” with Chinese soldiers on their disputed Himalayan border in the worst military crisis between the…
Partial quarantine remains in Beijing; European countries continue to open borders to neighboursChina detected its highest number of daily coronavirus cases in months on Sunday, locking down parts of Beijing in a warning of the difficulties of avoiding…
Beijing denies cover-up or delay, while countries easing lockdowns face spike in casesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe number of confirmed deaths from coronavirus globally has topped 400,000, as the Chinese government rel…
Walls have been raised and societies quarantined as people enter a new realityCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt should not have come as a surprise. Life had already been upended in China. Iran and Italy have been reeling fo…
As internet use has surged, especially in developing world, so have attempts to switch off flow of informationOn Thursday, internet shutdowns came to the capital city of the world’s largest democracy.The suspension of data services, phone calls and tex…