In world news headlines -

> Thousands of opponents of Myanmar's February 1 military coup have gathered again, undeterred by the bloodiest episode of their campaign the previous day which claimed two lives in Mandalay.

> Facebook has deleted the main page of the Myanmar military under its standards prohibiting the incitement of violence, a day after two protesters were killed when police opened fire at a demonstration against a coup.

> Malaysia has moved up its COVID-19 inoculation drive by two days with the first batch of vaccines arriving in the Southeast Asian nation.