Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, under pressure from months of street protests, on Wednesday survived a legal challenge over his living arrangements that could have seen him thrown out of office.

In a breakthrough a month after deadly conflict cut off Ethiopia’s Tigray region from the world, the United Nations on Wednesday said it and the Ethiopian government have signed a deal to allow “unimpeded” humanitarian access, at least for areas under federal government control after the prime minister’s declaration of victory over the weekend.

Britain approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday to become the first country to formally endorse a jab it said should reach the most vulnerable people early next week.

Germany, France and Britain urged the administration of US President Donald Trump in late October to reconsider broad, new sanctions against Iran’s banks, arguing that the move would deter humanitarian trade and hurt the allies’ common interests, Reuters reported citing diplomatic correspondence.

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International condemnation continued to pour in over the recent assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

This government succeeded in making fundamental changes in the country during the first six months of its activity (beginning in August 2013) in both inflation and recession, said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

The volume of natural gas stored in Iran’s Shourijeh Gas Plant since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 20) reached nearly 1.9 billion cubic meters (bcm), registering a 22 percent rise compared to the same period last year, said the managing director of the plant on Wednesday.

Iran’s ambassador to Vienna said that the next meeting of the Iran-Austria Joint Economic Committee is planned to be held in the near future.