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Nasa's Perseverance rover descends to touch down on Mars in a still image from a video camera aboard the descent stage taken February 18, 2021. u00e2u20acu2022 Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters

Nasa releases first audio from Mars, video of landing

An ambulance carrying a Covid-19 patient is seen outside Santa Maria Hospital, during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic in Lisbon, Portugal, January 18, 2021. u00e2u20acu201d Reuters pic

Portugal aims for 70pc vaccination rate in the summer

Myanmar's military checkpoint is seen on the way to the congress compound in Naypyitaw, Myanmar February 1, 2021. u00e2u20acu2022 Reuters pic

US puts sanctions on two Myanmar generals over coup, says Treasury Dept

People step on placards showing the photo of an alleged Myanmar Army sniper during a protest against the military coup in Yangon February 22, 2021. u00e2u20acu2022 Reuters pic

Western countries step up pressure on Myanmar junta as protests go on

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a peace agreement to establish diplomatic ties between Israel and the UAE, during a news conference in Jerusalem August 13, 2020. u00e2u20acu201d Pool pic via Reuters

Israel court sets next Netanyahu hearing for April 5

Chinese paramilitary police stand guard in the Muslim Uighur minority area of Urumqi, Xinjiang Province on June 30, 2013. u00e2u20acu201c AFP pic

Canada's parliament passes motion saying China's treatment of Uighurs is genocide

US President Joe Biden concludes his remarks in honour of the 500,000 deaths from the coronavirus disease, in the Cross Hall at the White House in Washington February 22, 2021. u00e2u20acu2022 Reuters pic

Biden leads Americans in moment of silence to mourn 500,000 US Covid-19 deaths

A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a u00e2u20acu02dcCoronavirus Covid-19 Vaccineu00e2u20acu2122 sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken October 30, 2020. u00e2u20acu201d Reuters pic

Trials of retooled Covid-19 vaccines for variants could take months, says US FDA

Five doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine before they are distributed to doctors and nurses at George Washington University Hospital in Washington December 14, 2020. u00e2u20acu201d Pool pic via Reuters

Pfizer to ship 13 million Covid-19 vaccine doses per week to US by mid-March, says executive

Iranu00e2u20acu2122s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivering a televised speech on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of 1978 revolt in Qom which ignited the Iranian Revolution, January 8, 2021. u00e2u20acu201d Iranu00e2u20acu2122s Supreme Leader handout pic via AFP

Khamenei says Iran may enrich uranium to 60pc purity if needed

Chinau00e2u20acu2122s State Councilor Wang Yi attends a news briefing after a meeting with Russiau00e2u20acu2122s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, September 11, 2020. Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout via Reuters

China calls for a reset, but US says Beijing trying to 'avert blame'

Asylum seekers sit inside a tent at a migrant encampment in Matamoros, Mexico February 18, 2021. u00e2u20acu2022 Reuters pic

Delays rattle asylum seekers waiting in Mexico as hopes of quick US entry fade

Attorney general nominee Merrick Garland testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington, DC February 22, 2021. u00e2u20acu2022 Pool via Reuters

US attorney general nominee Garland says ‘no conflicts’ when it comes to Big Tech

US President Donald Trump makes remarks on a television monitor from the White House Briefing Room during his last day in office, in Washington January 20, 2021. u00e2u20acu2022 Reuters pic

Trump likely to dangle possibility of a 2024 run in first post-White House speech, says activist

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquin Guzman, the Mexican drug lord known as u00e2u20acu02dcEl Chapou00e2u20acu2122, exits the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse during the trial in the Brooklyn borough of New York February 5, 2019. u00e2u20acu2022 Reuters file pic

US Justice Dept: Wife of Mexico drug cartel chief El Chapo is arrested in Virginia

Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden's nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), testifies during a Senate Committee on the Budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 10, 2021. u00e2u20acu2022 Reuters file pic

'Mean tweets' threaten Biden budget pick Tanden as US moderates balk