Home Office plans to make it much tougher for those who enter the UK illegally to claim asylum have been condemned as a "divisive policy", which will "do nothing to stop illegal crossings".
AstraZeneca has defended its use of coronavirus vaccine data after US authorities suggested some results from a large American-led trial may have been based on "outdated information".
For the past five months the head of the Ethiopian government has adamantly denied the existence of Eritrean troops, together with their military hardware, in the northern region of Tigray.