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<br>Following is a summary of current world news briefs.<br> <br>Britain first to approve AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine<br> <br>Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus.<br><br>AstraZeneca said the authorisation was for a two dose regime, and that the vaccine had been approved for use for emergency supply. Britain has ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine.<br> <br>Analysis-Cuba's looming monetary reform sparks confusion, inflation fears<br> <br>A major  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/visa-da-mo-bay-gio-la-thich-hop-nhat-de-du-lich-dai-loan.html tour đài loan] monetary reform that will hike prices and state wages in Cuba starting on Friday is sparking widespread uncertainty as the Communist-run island resumes market-oriented changes to its Soviet-style economy after years of flip-flopping.<br><br>The reform, announced earlier this month by President Miguel Diaz-Canel, will eliminate a complex dual currency and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/visa-da-mo-bay-gio-la-thich-hop-nhat-de-du-lich-dai-loan.html tour đài loan từ hà nội] multiple exchange rate system that masked a host of government subsidies, pegging the remaining peso currency at a single rate.<br> <br>Once Netanyahu's greatest rival, Israel's Gantz is down, if not out<br> <br>Benny Gantz, the former general who came close to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long dominance of Israeli politics, is finding his star is fading fast as a new rival from the right emerges as a challenge in an election set for March.<br><br>With his centrist Blue and White party on the verge of demise, Gantz has said he will press on and bring Netanyahu's more than decade-old reign to an end.<br> <br>'Boris the betrayer' has swindled us over Brexit, England's fishermen say<br> <br>For England's fishermen, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit trade deal is a betrayal because it allows some European Union boats continued access to Britain's rich inshore coastal waters.<br><br>Johnson, who led the 2016 Brexit campaign, cast the Christmas Eve trade deal as a way to take back control of the United Kingdom's destiny including as an "independent coastal state with full control of our waters."<br> <br>China sentences HK activists to up to three years in jail for border crossing<br> <br>A Chinese court sentenced 10 Hong Kong activists to between seven months and three years in jail on Wednesday for illegally crossing the border, in a case that has drawn international attention and concern over the defendants' treatment.<br><br>The group had all faced charges in Hong Kong over anti-government protests in the Chinese-ruled city and they have been held virtually incommunicado in a mainland prison since their boat was intercepted on Aug. 23 after leaving Hong Kong, allegedly en route to the democratic island of Taiwan.<br> <br>"Where shall we go?," families ask after Croatia quake<br> <br>Rescue workers sifted through the rubble on Wednesday to make sure there were no more people trapped after an [http://sportsrants.com/?s=earthquake earthquake] in central Croatia that killed seven people and destroyed scores of homes and other buildings.<br><br>Many residents spent the night in their cars, terrified that a series of aftershocks of up to 4.8 magnitude would send more debris tumbling from houses already weakened by Tuesday's 6.4 magnitude quake.<br> <br>'We did it, sisters': Argentina Senate votes to legalize abortion<br> <br>Argentina's Senate voted on Wednesday to [https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=legalize legalize] abortion, a first for a big country in Latin America and a triumph for women's rights campaigners achieved over the visceral objection of the Catholic Church.<br><br>Abortion is extremely rare in a region where the Church has held cultural and political sway for centuries. Previously, it was allowed on demand only in Communist Cuba, tiny Uruguay and parts of Mexico.<br> <br>Indian state's "Love Jihad" law denounced by ex-bureaucrats, diplomats in open letter<br> <br>Over 100 retired senior civil servants and diplomats urged the Hindu nationalist leader of Uttar Pradesh state to repeal a new law criminalizing forced religious conversion of brides, warning in an open letter that it risked fueling communal tensions.<br><br>Although no religion is specified in the legislation, critics say it is aimed against the country's Muslim minority. Hardline Hindu groups have accused Muslim men of waging a campaign, dubbed "Love Jihad," to lure Hindu women to Islam with promises of marriage.<br> <br>Uganda opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine says he, campaign team arrested<br> <br>Uganda opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, and his campaign team were arrested in the country's central region on Wednesday, he said on Twitter.<br><br>No further details of their arrest were immediately available. They were arrested in Kalangala in central Uganda, Wine said in the post.<br> <br>Landslide hits residential area in Norway, 10 hurt, 21 unaccounted for<br> <br>Ten people were hurt, one of them critically, and 21 people remained unaccounted for after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.<br><br>The landslide struck a residential area in the municipality of Gjerdrum, some 30 km (19 miles) north of the capital Oslo.<br>