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WHO rejects report suggesting Covid virus originated in Thailand

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed a report that a WHO team member suggested Thailand could be the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Facebook bans Myanmar's military, citing threat of new violence after Feb. 1 coup

Facebook banned accounts for the military of Myanmar and its related media entities on Wednesday night, citing its "history of exceptionally severe human rights abuses" and potential to use social media to pursue new rounds of violence following a coup this month.
First vaccine doses distributed by Covax land in Ghana

ABUJA, Nigeria - Ghana became the first country to receive a shipment of coronavirus vaccines from a global effort to equitably distribute doses after a plane landed Wednesday with 600,000 AstraZeneca shots.
Merkel warns of third virus wave as Germany weighs ending lockdown

Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Germany is in the midst of a third wave of coronavirus infections and should proceed carefully with reopening schools and businesses, putting a damper on discussions to loosen lockdown curbs.
Biden and Trudeau try to reset relations after Trump

Even through a video screen, you could feel the warm fuzzies between President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the two met Tuesday for a symbolic rebooting of neighborly relations grown testy over the past four years.

Kazakhstan: A model of evolutionary succession of power

WHO rejects report suggesting Covid virus originated in Thailand

Facebook bans Myanmar's military, citing threat of new violence after Feb. 1 coup

First vaccine doses distributed by Covax land in Ghana

A protective face mask sign in Romerberg Square in Frankfurt, on Jan. 29. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Alex Kraus.

Merkel warns of third virus wave as Germany weighs ending lockdown

Biden and Trudeau try to reset relations after Trump

A member of ground crew prepares a passenger aircraft, operated by Easyjet on the tarmac at Nice Cote d'Azur Airport in Nice, France, on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Jeremy Suyker

Airline bookings surge on Johnson's plan to reopen travel

Erick Tsang, Hong Kong's secretary for constitutional and mainland affairs.

Hong Kong loses last outlet for democracy

South Africa unemployment rises to record as more look for jobs

Biden administration preparing to sanction Russia for SolarWinds hacks and the poisoning of an opposition leader

A Spanish rapper was arrested for tweets praising terrorists and mocking royals. Then the protests began.

Moderate Senate Democrats target state aid fund in Biden covid relief bill

A health-care worker carries a container of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines in Bogota, Colombia, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.

Vaccine delays threaten economies hardest hit by pandemic

Huawei: COVID-19 closed many doors, but innovation offers a window of hope

The Smithsoanian's Future event will reopen the AIB, the 1881 structure that was the institution's first dedicated exhibition space. It has remained closed to the public since 2004. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Matt McClain

The Smithsonian is turning 175. It's celebrating with robots, flying cars and hope.

A truck drives down the street during a power outage in McKinney, Texas, about 30 miles north of Dallas, on Feb. 16, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Cooper Neill

Texans slammed by thousand-dollar power bills after storm

The Fuxin Farm is shown in an aerial photograph in Longyan, Fujian province, China, on Nov. 18, 2020. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Qilai Shen

Alibaba, Pinduoduo take on China's looming food crisis

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi

China urges Biden to scrap tariffs, restore goodwill

A social-distancing floor marker sits in a classroom at All Saints Catholic College in Manchester, England, on Sept. 1, 2020. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Anthony Devlin

Johnson opts for slow end to lockdown

Beijing soars to 78 degrees, its warmest winter temperature on record

A police officer in riot gear stands guard beyond razor wire coils along a highway in Ghazipur on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on Feb. 6, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Anindito Mukherjee

India wields colonial-era sedition law to detain farm protesters

People pray outside the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison on Dec. 14, 2020, in a protest of the presidential election results. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Darren Hauck

Impeachment is over, but other efforts to reckon with Trump's post-election chaos have just begun

North Korea's economy is ravaged - and Kim is lashing out

Six months after massive Beirut explosion, official investigation has been upended

58 people died in last week's frigid weather

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