KABUL -- Two people including a university lecturer were killed in a bomb attack outside Kabul University in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, police said.

The explosion occurred at around 11:25 a.m. local time near the gate of Kabul University which is located in Police District 3 of the capital city. A sedan car was struck and destroyed by the blast, Kabul police spokesman Ferdaus Faramarz told reporters via a text message. (Afghanistan-Bomb)

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong will begin to give the COVID-19 vaccine to its residents for free on Feb. 26 as the first 1 million doses from Sinovac Biotech will arrive on Friday afternoon.

At a press conference on Thursday, Patrick Nip, Secretary for the Civil Service of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, said that people in priority groups, including medical workers and the aged, can book their first shots online from next Tuesday. (Hong Kong-Vaccine-Rollout)

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KABUL -- The World Bank has approved 97.5 million U.S. dollars in grant for Afghanistan to combat the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and droughts in the war-torn Asian country, the World Bank office in Afghanistan said in a statement reaching here Thursday.

The grant approved from the International Development Association (IDA) is to provide regular and predictable cash support to drought- and coronavirus-affected Afghans as well as to improve food and nutrition security, the statement said. (Afghanistan-World Bank-Grant)

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NEW DELHI -- A local minister in India's eastern state of West Bengal was wounded along with some of his supporters in a bomb attack at a railway station, police said Thursday.

According to the local police, the local government minister, Jakir Hossain, was targeted on Wednesday night when he was walking to catch a train at the Nimtita railway station in Murshidabad district, about 270 km north of Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal. (India-Local minister-Bomb)

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CANBERRA -- Australia's coronavirus vaccine program will begin on Feb. 22, the government has confirmed.

Health Minister Greg Hunt and Department of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy on Thursday announced that the vaccine rollout will begin in more than 200 aged care facilities in 190 towns across Australia next Monday. (Australia-Vaccine-Rollout) Enditem

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