Covid Vaccine Live News Updates: Pfizer to discuss coronavirus vaccine booster with top US officials today

Dr. Anthony Fauci said clinical studies and laboratory data have yet to fully bear out the need for a booster to the current two-shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson regimen.

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08:03 AM

Avocado farmers take up arms as Mexico violence spikes

Armed with assault rifles and other firearms, the masked men travel between plantations and maintain checkpoints in Ario de Rosales in Michoacan state, the scene of a bloody cartel turf war.

07:37 AM

Djokovic wins record-equalling 20th Grand Slam

Novak Djokovic won a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam title and sixth Wimbledon on Sunday with a four-set victory over Italian slugger Matteo Berrettini with rival superstar Roger Federer hailing the achievement as a "wonderful performance". The world number one triumphed 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 to move level on 20 majors with Federer and Rafael Nadal.

07:02 AM

Biden backs Trump rejection of China's South China Sea claim

The Biden administration on Sunday upheld a Trump-era rejection of nearly all of China's significant maritime claims in the South China Sea. The administration also warned China that any attack on the Philippines in the flashpoint region would draw a U.S. response under a mutual defense treaty.

06:43 AM

Pfizer to discuss vaccine booster with US officials

Pfizer's Dr. Mikael Dolsten said last week that early data from the company's booster study suggests people's antibody levels jump five- to 10-fold after a third dose, compared to their second dose months earlier - evidence it believes supports the need for a booster.

06:42 AM

Less water in Yamuna river due to delay in arrival of monsoon, AAP dispensation's mismanagement behind water shortage in national capital

- Haryana government

06:42 AM

U.S. West scorches under heat wave

A brutal heat wave punishing the U.S. West pushed temperatures toward all-time records for a third day on Sunday, as Death Valley in California, scorched at 130-degrees Fahrenheit (54 Celsius) was again one of the hottest spots on the planet.

06:41 AM

Rare anti-government protests erupt in Cuba

The anti-government rallies started spontaneously in several cities as the country endures its worst economic crisis in 30 years, with chronic shortages of electricity and food.

06:41 AM

Sydney braces for extended lockdown amid COVID-19 outbreak

Australia's largest city, Sydney, is bracing for a prolonged COVID-19 lockdown as officials warn new daily cases are likely to top 100 on Monday amid a fast-growing outbreak of the Delta virus variant. New infections have been rising daily despite the city, home to a fifth of Australia's 25 million population, entering lockdown more than two weeks ago.