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A nurse receives the first jab, after months of delay and political discord over the programme.

The border closure is likely to remain even with widespread vaccinations, a top official says.

Security forces block a caravan of thousands that could pose an early test for the Biden White House.

He coordinated with Trump supporters during the Capitol riot – but new video suggests it was part of a ploy.

Mass public vaccination programs using a Chinese coronavirus vaccine are underway across Indonesia and Turkey, where tens of millions of people are expected to receive doses of the CoronaVac shot made by Beijing-based company Sinovac.

Russia’s leading Kremlin critic, Alexey Navalny, was detained by local police, moments after his return to the country and five months after he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen reports Navalny had originally been scheduled to land at Vnukovo airport, where a crowd of hundreds of …

Russia’s leading opposition figure and chief Kremlin critic, Alexey Navalny, has left Berlin on a flight bound for Moscow, where he will likely be greeted by his supporters as well as authorities poised to arrest him.

Amid a devastating resurgence of the coronavirus in parts of Brazil, federal health officials have finally voted to authorize two vaccines for emergency use. Sunday, Brazilian regulatory agency Anvisa approved both the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and the Coronavac vaccine.

The opposition leader has been recovering in Germany, but expects arrest when he lands in Moscow.

The new president will repeal Trump travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord after being sworn in.