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Hotels, cinemas and theatres will reopen in Poland from midFebruary at maximum half capacity, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday, as he takes tentative steps to reopen the economy amid rising frustration among businesses.

Combining India’s talent and strengths with the US capital and expertise in digital and IT space presents an ideal pathway for both the economies, India’s Ambassador to the US Taranjt Singh Sandhu said.

The BBC came under fire from Chinese officials and social media on Friday in an escalating diplomatic dispute, a day after Britain's media regulator revoked the TV licence of Chinese state media outlet CGTN.

Oil prices climbed on Friday to their highest levels in a year, extending a run of strong gains this week, boosted by the continued commitment of producers to hold back crude supply and positive signs of economic growth in the United States.

Guterres -- a master of behind-the-scenes diplomacy who served for a decade as High Commissioner for Refugees -- does not have a great track record at conflict resolution in hotspots such as Syria and Yemen.

The protests were sparked by PM Oli’s decision to make the appointments to the posts without following the mandatory parliamentary processes.

Investors pumped money into telecommunications, infrastructure, manufacturing and construction projects. But the buzz was already fading by 2017 for the West, after a military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state led to allegations of genocide.

Kuwait said on Wednesday it will suspend entry for noncitizens for two weeks from Feb. 7 after a rise in coronavirus cases, while neighbouring Saudi Arabia suspended entertainment activities and dinein services at restaurants.

More than 500 tennis players and officials were ordered into isolation in the Australian city of Melbourne on Thursday as authorities reintroduced coronavirus restrictions after a worker at a quarantine hotel tested positive for the virus.

Even as President Joe Biden gathers with senators and works the phones with Capitol Hill to push for a $1.9 trillion COVID19 relief package, his team is increasingly focused on selling the plan directly to voters.

People in Spain wishing to change their official gender will no longer have to undergo medical and psychological exams or years of hormone treatment if a bill from the Equality Ministry on Wednesday is taken up by the government and becomes law.

U.S. President Joe Biden will on Wednesday meet congressional Democrats preparing to advance his $1.9 trillion COVID19 relief plan despite Republican pushback.

Some scientists have called for China to release details of all coronavirus samples studied at the lab, to see which most closely resembles SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the respiratory disease.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered hundreds of Pentagon advisory board members to resign this month as part of a broad review of the panels, essentially purging several dozen lastminute appointments under the Trump administration.

The military is back in power in Myanmar after a coup less than a decade after it launched a transition to democracy to end nearly half a century of direct army rule and international isolation.

Britain begins doortodoor COVID19 testing of 80,000 people on Tuesday in a bid to stem the spread of a new highly infectious so called South African variant of the novel coronavirus.