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Britain, EU resume face-to-face negotiations over trade deal

Britain, EU resume face-to-face negotiations over trade deal

-- 2020-11-29 16:32:14

Face-to-face negotiations between Britain and the European Union over a trade deal restarted earlier on Saturday as the two sides make a last-ditch attempt to reach an agreement with just five weeks t...

Ethiopian military takes 'full control' of Tigray capital

Ethiopian military takes 'full control' of Tigray capital

-- 2020-11-29 16:13:35

Ethiopian troops have taken "full control" of the Tigray region's capital Mekelle, the government said on Saturday evening, a major development in a three-week-old war that is sending shockwaves throu...

Singaporean gives birth to baby with COVID-19 antibodies

Singaporean gives birth to baby with COVID-19 antibodies

Reuters 2020-11-29 15:04:31

A Singaporean woman, who was infected with the novel coronavirus in March when she was pregnant, has given birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus, offering a new clue as to whether the infe...

30 Afghan security force personnel killed in car bomb attack

30 Afghan security force personnel killed in car bomb attack

-- 2020-11-29 14:53:58

A car bombing in the Afghanistan’s central province of Ghazni killed at least 30 Afghan security force members on Sunday, officials said, and casualties could increase given the intensity and lo...

Canada bans export of some prescription medicines in response to US plan

Canada bans export of some prescription medicines in response to US plan

-- 2020-11-29 14:11:15

Canada has banned the export of some prescription medicines in order to prevent a shortage in the country. The decision is in response to a US plan that would allow for drugs to be imported from Cana...

Global Covid-19 cases exceed 62 million

Global Covid-19 cases exceed 62 million

-- 2020-11-29 12:32:47

The number of global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases surged past 62 million on Sunday, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The number of confirmed cases across the world ro...

155 anti-lockdown protesters arrested in London

155 anti-lockdown protesters arrested in London

-- 2020-11-29 09:04:51

Police in London said on Saturday that they had made 155 arrests as they tried to break up anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests. The police said the arrests had been made for different offences in...

Ethiopian forces begin offensive on Tigray capital

Ethiopian forces begin offensive on Tigray capital

Reuters 2020-11-28 21:07:49

Ethiopian government forces began an offensive to capture the regional capital Mekelle in the rebellious northern Tigray region on Saturday, said a diplomat in direct contact with residents, and the l...

1,300 people wrongly tested positive for coronavirus in UK

1,300 people wrongly tested positive for coronavirus in UK

-- 2020-11-28 19:11:20

Over 1,300 people in Britain were inaccurately informed they were infected with coronavirus after a laboratory error at the government's NHS Test and Trace system, the Department of Health and Social...

Israeli embassies on high alert after Iran’s threats of retaliation

Israeli embassies on high alert after Iran’s threats of retaliation

-- 2020-11-28 18:33:58

Israel put its embassies around the world on high alert on Saturday after Iranian threats of retaliation following the killing of a nuclear scientist near Tehran. A spokesman for the Israeli foreign...

Malaysia will hold general election after pandemic

Malaysia will hold general election after pandemic

-- 2020-11-28 18:01:32

Malaysia will hold a general election when the novel coronavirus pandemic is over, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Saturday, shortly after he averted a showdown by winning parliamentary suppor...

Khamenei promises retaliation for nuclear scientist's killing

Khamenei promises retaliation for nuclear scientist's killing

Reuters 2020-11-28 17:16:26

Iran's supreme leader promised on Saturday to retaliate for the assassination of the Islamic Republic's top nuclear scientist, who the West and Israel believed was the architect of a secret Iranian pr...

Chinese scientists claim COVID-19 came from India or Bangladesh

Chinese scientists claim COVID-19 came from India or Bangladesh

The Sun 2020-11-28 15:16:21

Scientists in China have claimed that coronavirus may have originated in India or Bangladesh as they try to shift the blame from Wuhan. A paper by researchers at the Shanghai Institute for Biological...

Iran president accuses Israel of nuclear scientist assassination

Iran president accuses Israel of nuclear scientist assassination

REUTERS 2020-11-28 15:11:46

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Saturday accused Israel of killing the country’s top nuclear scientist, believed by the West to be the architect of Tehran’s secret military nuclear pro...

Ethiopian military claims control of several Tigray towns

Ethiopian military claims control of several Tigray towns

-- 2020-11-28 14:29:40

Ethiopia's military claims it has seized control of several towns in the northern region of Tigray. The army has been locked in conflict with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) for weeks. L...

WHO says would be 'highly speculative' to say Covid originated outside China

WHO says would be 'highly speculative' to say Covid originated outside China

REUTERS 2020-11-28 11:56:07

The World Health Organization’s top emergency expert said on Friday it would be “highly speculative” for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China, where it was first id...

Killing of Iranian nuclear 'mastermind' risks confrontation in Trump's final days

Killing of Iranian nuclear 'mastermind' risks confrontation in Trump's final days

REUTERS 2020-11-28 11:28:31

An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foe...

Another blow to Trump as US court rejects Pennsylvania election case

Another blow to Trump as US court rejects Pennsylvania election case

REUTERS 2020-11-28 08:33:41

A US federal appeals court on Friday (local time) rejected an attempt by incumbent President Donald Trump’s campaign to block President-elect Joe Biden from being declared the winner of Pennsylv...

Iran’s prominent nuclear scientist shot dead

Iran’s prominent nuclear scientist shot dead

FE Online Desk 2020-11-27 21:39:37

Prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh died in hospital on Friday of injuries suffered in an armed attack, Reuters reports quoting Iranian state media. According to Aljazeera, Iranian...

Britain, other nations press on with AstraZeneca vaccine

Britain, other nations press on with AstraZeneca vaccine

Reuters 2020-11-27 21:14:33

Britain asked its regulator on Friday to assess AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine for a possible rollout, while the Philippines and Thailand secured millions of doses, giving the shot a vote of confide...

Five COVID-19 patients killed in Indian hospital fire

Five COVID-19 patients killed in Indian hospital fire

Reuters 2020-11-27 21:07:53

Five patients were killed in India on Friday in a fire that broke out in a COVID-19 ward, the fourth blaze in a novel coronavirus hospital since the outbreak began, which drew angry questions from the...

North Korean hackers targeted vaccine maker AstraZeneca

North Korean hackers targeted vaccine maker AstraZeneca

-- 2020-11-27 19:57:30

Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks, two people with knowledge of the matter said, as the company races to deploy its v...

Global Covid-19 cases cross 61m

Global Covid-19 cases cross 61m

-- 2020-11-27 18:23:52

The confirmed Covid-19 cases across the globe surpassed 61 million on Friday. A total of 61,026,993 people have been infected with the virus so far. And there have been 1,432,817 Covid-19 deaths, acc...

Malaysia secures Pfizer vaccine as a first country in for Southeast Asia

Malaysia secures Pfizer vaccine as a first country in for Southeast Asia

-- 2020-11-27 17:59:42

Malaysia has agreed to buy 12.8 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to announce a deal with the US drugmaker after some expressed reservation...

Pakistan's first transgender lawyer goes fighting in court

Pakistan's first transgender lawyer goes fighting in court

-- 2020-11-27 17:36:08

Lawyer Nisha Rao maneuvers among the throng of black-coated attorneys clustered near Karachi's city courts searching for her client. But Rao, 28, is not just another lawyer running for a meeting. As...

India to produce 100 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V

India to produce 100 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V

REUTERS 2020-11-27 14:06:31

Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero have agreed to produce over 100 million doses per year in India of the Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19, according to a...

Diego Maradona buried as Argentines bid farewell to world football great

Diego Maradona buried as Argentines bid farewell to world football great

REUTERS 2020-11-27 12:07:10

Argentina’s Diego Maradona, one of the world’s greatest ever football players, was buried on Thursday amid a global outpouring of grief from the streets of Buenos Aires to Naples in Italy....

Trump finally says he'll leave if Biden wins Electoral College vote

Trump finally says he'll leave if Biden wins Electoral College vote

REUTERS 2020-11-27 10:58:15

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday (local time) he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, the closest he has come to conceding the November 3...

Ethiopian PM says will begin ‘final phase’ of offensive in Tigray region

Ethiopian PM says will begin ‘final phase’ of offensive in Tigray region

-- 2020-11-26 13:24:23

The Ethiopian military will begin the “final phase” of an offensive in the rebellious northern Tigray region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said in a statement on Thursday, hours after an ulti...

Global coronavirus cases surpass 60 million

Global coronavirus cases surpass 60 million

-- 2020-11-26 11:18:52

Amid a surge in the number of coronavirus (Covid-19)) cases in the world, the confirmed Covid-19 cases surpassed 60 million on Thursday, according to the data compiled by John Hopkins University (JHU)...