Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Friday that Canada’s drug regulator had authorized the AstraZeneca vaccine as well as the version produced by the Serum Institute of India.

An elite unit assigned to protect Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is said to have carried out dozens of operations, including forcibly repatriating Saudis.

A confidential U.S. government report found that people in Tigray are being driven from their homes in a war begun by Ethiopia, an American ally — posing President Biden’s first major test in Africa.

A series of announcements has not only reversed the decline of Canada’s auto industry, but has also set it on the path to electrification.

Local brewers in Mar del Plata, Argentina, spent months trying to make a unique brew by aging a dark ale 66 feet underwater. Then the barrels went missing, setting off a whodunit.

World Health Organization officials again urged that vaccines be distributed equitably worldwide and that the supply for the Covax initiative not be compromised.

“Things are tenuous,” says Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the C.D.C. director. “Now is not the time to relax restrictions.”

Mark Machin is the latest public figure in the country to be publicly sanctioned for actions perceived as selfish during the pandemic.

The addition of a third vaccine may ease the country’s growing dissatisfaction about the sluggish pace of vaccinations.