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HUAWEI executive Meng Wanzhou was headed home from Vancouver at the weekend as two Canadians were released from prison on Saturday in China, bringing a close to a bitter diplomatic row that has poisoned ties for three years.

Meng, the 49-year-old daughter of Ren Zhengfei, the billionaire founder of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, and the two Canadians – former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor – are all on their way back to their home countries after years of being detained in what critics have called “hostage diplomacy”.

ALMOST all of the mostly Haitian migrants who had gathered on both sides of the Us-mexico border have left their makeshift camps, ending a stand-off that had provoked a major border crisis for the Biden administration.

At Ciudad Acuna on the Mexican side, AFP saw migrants packing up their belongings and getting into vans taking them to a shelter, after a deal struck with the Mexican government.

Just hours before the US had announced that the last of the migrants who were camping illegally under a bridge on the Texas side of the border had either left or been removed.

UGANDA’S President Yoweri Museveni has called for Covid-19 vaccination efforts to be ramped up while threatening officials with dismissal should vaccines be left to expire.

Nearly 12 million doses of a variety of Covid-19 vaccines, including Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, Astrazeneca, Sinovac and Sinopharm, were expected to arrive by the end of December, Museveni said last week in the first Covid-19 national address since July.

The vaccines were being sourced from the US, Ireland, Belgium and China, to name a few. | ANA

TWO interior ministry offices in northern Kosovo were attacked near border crossings blocked by local Serbs angered by a ban on cars with Serbian licence plates entering the country, police said at the weekend.

The car registration office in the town of Zubin Potok was set ablaze and two hand grenades were thrown at the civil registration office in the town of Zvecan although they did not go off, the police said. There was no mention of any casualties. | Reuters