Top 10 world news: Navalny to remain detained, H4 work permits may continue, and more
Top 10 world news
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny will remain in detention ahead of hearing scheduled to take place next month. US President Joe Biden has withdrawn plans to shelve H4 work permits that allow spouses of H1-B visa holders to work in US. Meanwhile China has warned Taiwan that independence 'means war'. Read this and more in our Top 10 world news.
The origin of the virus has become the bone of contention between China and the US with Chinese state media citing the presence of the virus in imported frozen food.
Thursday's ruling came after Navalny's team called for fresh demonstrations on Sunday against Putin's 20-year rule.
The US government issues H-4 visa to family members of those who possess the H1-B visa which include spouse and children under 21 years of age.
Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, reported multiple Chinese fighter jets and bombers entering its southwestern air defence identification zone last weekend, prompting Washington to urge Beijing to stop pressuring Taiwan
Pfizer/BioNTech, which had previously said it was unlikely that the strain originally found in Britain could escape vaccine protection, said Thursday that early tests suggest their immunisation would be similarly protective against the variant in South Africa
President Joe Biden has called the initial phase of the vaccination campaign a "dismal failure" and with vaccinations in the United States at around 1 million per day, the new administration wants to expand and improve the program.
The warning came as the Biden administration works to shore up its Asian alliances against Beijing.
Pope Francis will visit Ira from March 5 to 8. He has plans of visiting Baghdad, the northern city of Mosul and Ur
Brazilian social media was flooded with memes linking Bolsonaro with condensed milk on Tuesday -- including one that portrayed soldiers painting a curb with paint cans filled with the viscous liquid