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Turkey says China’s Sinovac Covid vaccine 91pc effective
Turkey will receive its first shipment of China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine within days as preliminary domestic tests showed it was 91% effective, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Tariffs: The deal means there will be no tariffs or quotas on goods produced in the UK and EU moving between the two sides. London has hailed the lack of tariffs as a major positive of the deal -- but it simply helps maintain part of the benefits Britain already enjoyed as a member of the bloc.
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch sold for $22 million
Michael Jackson’s famed Neverland Ranch in California has finally sold, more than 10 years after the death of the pop star who abandoned the
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Police killing of unarmed Black man ignites fresh US outrage
The fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man by police in Columbus, Ohio -- the US city’s second such killing this month -- sparked a fresh
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Trump admin pushing $500m arms sale to Riyadh: report
Donald Trump’s administration plans to authorise the sale of nearly $500m in weapons to Saudi Arabia before the United States president leaves the White House, US media outlets have reported, a move that one expert slammed as “a moral outrage”.
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Mass vaccination starts in Latin America
Three Latin American countries launched mass immunization programs on Thursday as fears grew in Europe over a variant coronavirus strain that is believed to be far more contagious than the original version.
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Iran warns Trump against ‘adventurism’
Iran has warned the US president against any “adventurism” before leaving the White House, after Donald Trump said he would hold “Iran responsible” for any fatal attack on Americans in Iraq.
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Death toll from attack in western Ethiopia reaches 222, Red Cross says
The death toll from an attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has risen to 222 people, according to a volunteer from the country’s Red Cross.
25 December 2020, 17:04 PM
Pope urges nations to share Covid-19 vaccines in Christmas message
Pope Francis in his Christmas message has said political and business leaders must not allow market forces and patent laws to take priority over making Covid-19 vaccines available to all, condemning nationalism and “the virus of radical individualism”.
25 December 2020, 16:49 PM
A pandemic Christmas: Churches shut, borders complicated
Curfews, quarantines and even border closings complicated Christmas celebrations Friday for countless people around the globe, but ingenuity, determination and imagination helped keep the day special for many.
25 December 2020, 16:14 PM
Erdogan says Turkey wants better ties with Israel
President Tayyip Erdogan said today that Turkey would like to have better ties with Israel, adding that talks at intelligence level continued between the two sides.
25 December 2020, 11:35 AM
Russia opens criminal case against ally of Kremlin critic Navalny
Russian law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and took her in for questioning early on Friday after raiding her home, Navalny and his supporters said.
25 December 2020, 10:46 AM
Brazilian institute says Chinese CoronaVac vaccine effective
Clinical trials of the CoronaVac coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinese laboratory Sinovac have “reached the efficacy threshold” demanded by the
24 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Trump vetoes $740 billion US defense bill
US President Donald Trump vetoed a broad defense funding bill sent to him by Congress Wednesday, complaining that it helps Russia and China and
24 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Macron free of Covid symptoms: presidency
French President Emmanuel Macron is free of Covid-19 symptoms, his office said yesterday, a week after he tested positive for the coronavirus.
24 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Gunmen kill more than 100 in Ethiopia attack
Ethiopia’s military killed 42 armed men accused of attacking a village in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region, state-affiliated Fana TV reported yesterday, as the government sent in more troops to contain ethnic tensions.
24 December 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Think it over’
US President Donald Trump has warned he would hold “Iran responsible” in the event of a fatal attack on Americans in Iraq, as the first anniversary of the killing of a top Iranian general in a US air strike approaches.
24 December 2020, 18:00 PM
20 feared dead as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia
At least 20 African migrants died when their boat sank off Tunisia yesterday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian security official said.
24 December 2020, 18:00 PM
BJP’s war against ‘love jihad’
In India’s most populous state, the Hindu nationalist BJP government is on a mission against “love jihad”, the conspiracy theory that Muslims are luring Hindu brides with the aim of conversion and eventually national domination.
24 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Trump pardons more allies
US President Donald Trump issued new pardons Wednesday for allies including the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner and two confidants caught up in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election that brought him to power.
24 December 2020, 18:00 PM