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UK first country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine

UK first country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine

Reuters 2020-12-02 13:50:48

Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use and said that it will be rolled out from early next week. A vaccine is seen as the b...

US judiciary, shaped by Trump, keeps thwarting his election challenges

US judiciary, shaped by Trump, keeps thwarting his election challenges

REUTERS 2020-12-02 12:45:53

US President Donald Trump’s reshaping of the federal judiciary has done little to help him win lawsuits challenging the election outcome, with Trump appointees rebuffing him and the US Supreme C...

Nearly 37,000 Americans die of coronavirus in November

Nearly 37,000 Americans die of coronavirus in November

-- 2020-12-02 11:37:24

Nearly 37,000 Americans died of coronavirus (Covid-19) in November, the most in any month since the dark early days of the pandemic, engulfing families in grief, filling newspaper obituary pages and t...

India may not vaccinate all 1.3 billion people to control coronavirus

India may not vaccinate all 1.3 billion people to control coronavirus

-- 2020-12-02 10:56:32

India may not need to vaccinate all of its 1.3 billion people if it manages to inoculate a critical mass and break the transmission of the coronavirus, senior government officials said on Tuesday. In...

India plans dam on Brahmaputra to offset Chinese construction upstream

India plans dam on Brahmaputra to offset Chinese construction upstream

Reuters 2020-12-01 18:05:46

India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a sectio...

Biden to introduce top economic advisers as pandemic worsens

Biden to introduce top economic advisers as pandemic worsens

Reuters 2020-12-01 16:55:54

US President-elect Joe Biden will formally introduce his top economic policy advisers on Tuesday as his administration prepares to take power amid a slowing economic recovery hampered by the resurgent...

Iranian MPs seek strengthening nuclear stance after scientist killed   

Iranian MPs seek strengthening nuclear stance after scientist killed  

-- 2020-12-01 16:52:41

A bill requiring Iran’s government to step up uranium enrichment closer to the level needed for a nuclear weapon, and ignore other restraints on its nuclear programme agreed with major powers, c...

China to build a super dam on its part of Brahmaputra river

China to build a super dam on its part of Brahmaputra river

Hindustan Times 2020-12-01 15:42:49

China will build a ‘super’ dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Tibet, a state media report said on Nov 29, in a move that coul...

Cruises to resume in South China Sea after long hiatus amid pandemic

Cruises to resume in South China Sea after long hiatus amid pandemic

Global Times 2020-12-01 15:26:16

The cruise industry in China is coming back to life as routes to the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea will resume in December on a trial basis, following an 11-month suspension due to the COVID-19...

North Korea’s Kim received Chinese Covid-19 vaccine candidate: US analyst

North Korea’s Kim received Chinese Covid-19 vaccine candidate: US analyst

REUTERS 2020-12-01 14:39:43

China has provided North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his family with an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a US analyst said on Tuesday, citing two unidentified Japanese intelligence sources. Harry...

Trump's coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas resigns

Trump's coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas resigns

Reuters 2020-12-01 10:59:41

Dr Scott Atlas has resigned as special adviser on the coronavirus to US President Donald Trump, a White House official said on Monday, after a controversial four months during which he clashed repeate...

US slaps sanctions on Chinese firm over Venezuela support

US slaps sanctions on Chinese firm over Venezuela support

-- 2020-12-01 10:58:38

The United States imposed sanctions on Monday on Chinese firm China National Electronics Import & Export Corporation (CEIEC), accusing it of supporting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s...

Iran opposition group suspected alongside Israel in scientist's killing

Iran opposition group suspected alongside Israel in scientist's killing

-- 2020-11-30 23:03:21

A senior Iranian official said on Monday an opposition group was suspected alongside Israel in the killing of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist, an attack that has raised the prospect of a new sta...

Indonesian volcano erupts, forcing residents to flee

Indonesian volcano erupts, forcing residents to flee

-- 2020-11-30 22:45:01

A volcano in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province erupted on Sunday, spewing ash and smoke as high as four kilometers into the sky and forcing more than 2,700 residents to seek refuge, the co...

Pope cancels traditional pre-Christmas ceremony due to pandemic

Pope cancels traditional pre-Christmas ceremony due to pandemic

-- 2020-11-30 22:01:43

Pope Francis has cancelled a ceremony that traditionally begins Rome's Christmas season on Dec 8 at the Spanish Steps because of coronavirus restrictions, the Vatican said on Monday. The pope customa...

Modi refuses to back down on farm reforms despite huge protests

Modi refuses to back down on farm reforms despite huge protests

-- 2020-11-30 19:06:45

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday resisted calls for the repeal of farm reforms that have ignited the biggest protests by farmers in years around the national capital, saying they were bei...

Moderna to request US, Europe vaccine authorisation

Moderna to request US, Europe vaccine authorisation

Reuters 2020-11-30 18:30:56

Moderna Inc will apply for US and European emergency authorisation for its COVID-19 vaccine on Monday after full results from a late-stage study showed it was 94.1 per cent effective with no serious s...

Pakistan arrests hundreds in opposition ahead of rally

Pakistan arrests hundreds in opposition ahead of rally

AP 2020-11-30 17:20:59

Pakistani police arrested hundreds of supporters of opposition parties ahead of a planned rally Monday calling for the country's prime minister to resign, a move the government defended as necessary t...

US reports 265,166 deaths from coronavirus

US reports 265,166 deaths from coronavirus

Reuters 2020-11-30 17:01:51

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday reported a total 13,142,997 cases of new coronavirus, an increase of 143,333 from its previous count, and said the number of deaths ha...

Iran's state TV claims weapon used in scientist's killing was made in Israel

Iran's state TV claims weapon used in scientist's killing was made in Israel

REUTERS 2020-11-30 14:59:39

Iran’s English-language Press TV said on Monday that the weapon used in the killing of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist last week was made in Israel. “The weapon collected from the s...

Prison riot over Covid panic in Sri Lanka kills eight inmates, injures over 50

Prison riot over Covid panic in Sri Lanka kills eight inmates, injures over 50

-- 2020-11-30 13:46:38

At least eight prisoners were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes with guards at a Sri Lankan prison, officials said on Monday, as authorities tried to quell a protest over rising corornavirus...

India regulators probing alleged AstraZeneca shot reaction

India regulators probing alleged AstraZeneca shot reaction

REUTERS 2020-11-30 13:21:45

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is assisting an inquiry into an alleged adverse reaction during AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine trial, but has found no reason to recommend halting i...

Australia demands apology from China over ‘truly repugnant’ post on social media

Australia demands apology from China over ‘truly repugnant’ post on social media

-- 2020-11-30 11:05:51

Australia’s prime minister said a fake image of an Australian soldier posted on a Chinese official’s Twitter account was “truly repugnant” and Canberra was demanding it be take...

Joe Biden names all-woman communications team for White House jobs

Joe Biden names all-woman communications team for White House jobs

REUTERS 2020-11-30 10:58:25

US President-elect Joe Biden on Sunday (local time) tapped key campaign staff and advisors to lead his all-woman communications team, naming former Obama State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki as his...

Argentine prosecutors investigate possible negligence in Maradona's death

Argentine prosecutors investigate possible negligence in Maradona's death

REUTERS 2020-11-30 08:57:50

Argentine justice officials on Sunday (local time) seized medical files from the doctor of Diego Maradona as part of their investigation into the recent death of the football star. Maradona died at a...

110 civilians killed in Nigeria massacre

110 civilians killed in Nigeria massacre

-- 2020-11-29 22:13:19

A “gruesome” massacre against farmers in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 110 people, the United Nations has said, raising tolls initially indicating 43 and then at least 70 dead. The...

US Supreme Court weighs Trump bid to bar illegal immigrants from census totals

US Supreme Court weighs Trump bid to bar illegal immigrants from census totals

Reuters 2020-11-29 19:13:22

The Supreme Court on Monday is set to take up President Donald Trump’s unprecedented and contentious effort to exclude illegal immigrants from the population totals used to allocate US House of...

South Korea prohibits year-end parties as infections rise

South Korea prohibits year-end parties as infections rise

-- 2020-11-29 18:10:34

South Korean authorities announced a ban on year-end parties and some music lessons on Sunday and said public saunas and some cafes must also close after coronavirus infections surged at their fastest...

Sydney records hottest November night

Sydney records hottest November night

BBC 2020-11-29 18:04:30

Sydney has recorded its hottest November night on record, with daytime temperatures of 40C on Sunday. The Australian city recorded a minimum overnight temperature of 25.4C. The heat has prompted the...

Thai protesters challenge king's control over some army units

Thai protesters challenge king's control over some army units

-- 2020-11-29 17:24:11

Thai anti-government protesters challenged on Sunday King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s personal control over some army units to condemn the military’s role in politics. It was the latest open de...