President Joe Biden’s administration faces criticism within the scientific community over whether the additional shots are needed for the general population.

China, which has pledged aid and COVID-19 vaccine doses to Afghanistan, has said the United States and its allies have a duty to supply the war-torn nation with economic and humanitarian aid.

The findings, yet to undergo peer review, come as China starts to give a third COVID-19 shot to higher risk members of the population, as concerns grow that waning antibody levels over time could weaken protection against the virus.

While the Indian cricket board is not in any hurry to name a successor now, Rohit, IPL’s most successful captain, is likely to be elevated as India’s Twenty20 skipper.

Thousands of Indian and Chinese soldiers have been locked in confrontation in the western Himalayas since last year when animosity over a decades-old border dispute blew up.

Discoveries of works by the famously troubled artist, who died in 1890, are extremely rare. The drawing is owned by a private collector and had never been known of or displayed.

So far, only the five nuclear weapons states recognised by the NPT - the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain - plus India, which has not signed the NPT, have deployed nuclear-powered submarines.

United Nations Secretary-General said that the UN has little capacity to mediate and should focus on its "position of an international organization that is there to support the Afghan people."

Within three hours the capsule reached its final cruising orbital altitude of just over 585 km—higher than International Space Station or Hubble Space Telescope, and furthest any human has flown from Earth since NASA's Apollo moon program ended in 1972.

Sichuan's earthquake relief headquarters activated a level-II response, the Xinhua news agency reported, the second-highest in China's four-tier emergency response system.

The resumption of exports deliberations come ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington next week where vaccines are likely to be discussed at a summit of the leaders of the Quad countries - the United States, India, Japan and Australia.

The departure is part of a broader exodus of Afghan intellectuals and public figures, especially women, since the Taliban took over the country a month ago.

South Korea's military has raised its level of surveillance, and is maintaining a full readiness posture in close cooperation with the United States, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

Here are the main events in Afghanistan over the last month.

Here are five key announcements from the event.