China will "strive to provide" two billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world this year and donate $100 million to the international vaccine distribution system known as Covax, President Xi Jinping said Thursday.

China pledges two billion vaccine doses to world, says Xi

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As per a recent analysis of 90 studies, agricultural pesticides which are sold to farmers 'ready mixed' into cocktails can kill twice as many bees. The researchers used the data expounded to quantify how combinations of those stresses affected the pollinating insects.

Pesticides harmful for bees, says a recent study

Fully vaccinated passengers from France returning to Scotland, Northern Ireland and England will not need to quarantine. As per UK's widespread changes to the traffic light system for travel, France is being moved from amber-plus to amber.

International travel update: Fully vaccinated passengers from France will not need to quarantine in UK

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Tokyo on Thursday reported another massive jump in COVID-19 cases as the government expanded restrictions to eight more regions just days before the Olympics ends.

Covid cases in Tokyo at record high as government expands restrictions

Tanzanian riot police detained a number of protesting supporters of arrested opposition leader Freedom Mbowe on Thursday, as a terrorism case against him was postponed.

Tanzania arrests opposition protesters as court hearing postponed

Turkish coastguards evacuated hundreds of villagers from a burning power plant on Thursday and Greek firefighters battled a major blaze near the ancient Olympic site as a record heatwave wrecked havoc across Europe's southeast.

Turkey and Greece reel from raging wildfires during heatwave

At least 16 people were killed and over a dozen injured on Wednesday when lightning struck a wedding party on a boat in northwestern Bangladesh, officials said. The incident took place at Shibganj sub-district bordering India in Chapainawabganj district.

16 killed as lightning strikes wedding party in Bangladesh

Pakistan has other options if US President Joe Biden continues to ignore the country's leadership, National Security Adviser (NAS) Moeed Yusuf has said in an interview to The Financial Times (FT).

'Pakistan has other options': NSA Yusuf tells US over Biden snub

US top coronavirus adviser Dr Anthony Fauci on Wednesday (local time) said that Covid-19 cases may double as variant worse than Delta could be coming. "If America's current COVID-19 surge continues unabated into the fall and winter, the country will likely face an even more deadly strain of the virus that could evade the current coronavirus vaccines, Fauci told McClatchy, reported Axios.

COVID-19 cases may double in US as variant worse than Delta could be coming, says Fauci

The FBI identified Wednesday the attacker who killed a police officer on a bus platform at the Pentagon and forced the US Defense Department into lockdown, but gave no motive for the attack.

Pentagon attacker identified, motive remains unclear

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