Bloomberg Countries across the Asia Pacific are demurring on AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine, or restricting its use, in a move that may delay protection for the region amid concerns that the shot could trigger a rare and potentially deadly blood clotting condition. After guiding against the vaccine’s use in people under 50 and saying that it didn’t expect shipments from ...

Bloomberg Ukraine urged Russia to pull back troops from its border as Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned the US would impose “costs” on any Kremlin aggression. Tensions between the two neighbours are the highest since the end of large-scale fighting in the conflict that began after President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea in 2014. The war over the status of ...

Bloomberg A party in the Czech Republic’s ruling coalition will remove the Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek, the government’s most vocal critic of Russia’s efforts to take part in nuclear plant tender in the Nato member state. The removal follows Petricek’s unsuccessful bid to replace Social Democratic Party Chairman Jan Hamacek in a vote last week. Petricek, 39, resigned from his ...