Social media giant Facebook has banned Myanmar's military and its affiliates from its platforms. The company said it acted after deciding "the risks of allowing the Tatmadaw [Myanmar military] on Facebook and Instagram are too great". The military ...
China’s National Medical Products Administration said on Thursday that it had approved two more COVID-19 vaccines for public use, increasing the number of domestic vaccines approved in China to four. The two newly approved vaccines are made by CanS...
The US Embassy in Georgia is responding to the attack on journalist Vakho Sanaia and his family. "The US Embassy condemns the attack on journalist Vakho Sanaia and his family. Attacks on journalists are unacceptable and it is inadmissible to get use...
According to Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze, the calls made by the West are an expression of support and support for Georgia. "The calls we hear in recent days are important to us, because these people are the supporters of our country. Everyone sees t...
Australia has passed a world-first law aimed at making Google and Facebook pay for news_copy content on their platforms. The news_copy code legislation had been fiercely opposed by the US tech giants. Last week Facebook blocked all news_copy conten...
US regulators have found the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective. It paves the way for it to become the third Covid-19 vaccine to be authorised in the US, possibly within days. The vaccine would be a cost-effecti...
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would seek $37 billion in funding for legislation to supercharge chip manufacturing in the United States as a shortfall of semiconductors has forced U.S. automakers and other manufacturers to cut production. ...
European Union leaders will meet on Thursday to try to speed up the production and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in a race against the emergence of new variants that some fear could bring a third wave of the pandemic across the continent. This is rep...
Iran dismissed as “immature” a statement by a U.N. investigator that inconsistencies in its explanation of the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane last year raised questions over whether the act was intentional, Iranian media said on Thursda...
The first big real-world study of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be independently reviewed shows the shot is highly effective at preventing COVID-19, in a potentially landmark moment for countries desperate to end lockdowns and reopen economies. Up...
