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US readies Covid vaccine rollout as Pfizer-BioNTech shot gets nod

US readies Covid vaccine rollout as Pfizer-BioNTech shot gets nod

Reuters 2020-12-12 09:56:26

US health authorities, shipping services and hospitals stood ready on Friday to immediately launch a mass-inoculation campaign of unparalleled dimension, as federal regulators granted emergency approv...

Biden, Harris named Time magazine’s 2020 person of the year for making history

Biden, Harris named Time magazine’s 2020 person of the year for making history

Reuters 2020-12-11 12:11:23

US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were jointly named Time magazine’s 2020 “Person of the Year” on Thursday, chosen from a list of finalists that inc...

Canada gives green light to Pfizer vaccine

Canada gives green light to Pfizer vaccine

-- 2020-12-10 13:54:02

Canada on Wednesday approved its first Covid-19 vaccine and said initial shots will be delivered and administered across the country starting next week, while every Canadian will be able to be inocula...

Number of displaced people tops 80 million this year, UN estimates

Number of displaced people tops 80 million this year, UN estimates

-- 2020-12-09 19:23:06

Despite calls for ceasefires and compassion amid the coronavirus pandemic, violence and persecution have continued to force people from their homes, with record numbers now displaced, says the United...

Global Covid-19 cases cross 68 million

Global Covid-19 cases cross 68 million

-- 2020-12-09 13:33:00

More than 68 million people have been infected with coronavirus (Covid-19) globally and over 1.5 million of them died since the first cases were reported in December last year, according to data compi...

Biden pledges to vaccinate 100 million Americans in first 100 days

Biden pledges to vaccinate 100 million Americans in first 100 days

-- 2020-12-09 09:09:20

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday laid out his plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic during his first 100 days in office, saying his administration would vaccinate 100 million Americans, push to r...

Biden selects retired general Lloyd Austin for defence secretary position   

Biden selects retired general Lloyd Austin for defence secretary position  

-- 2020-12-08 17:00:39

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen retired General Lloyd Austin, who oversaw US forces in the Middle East under President Barack Obama, to be his defence secretary, two people familiar with the...

US imposes sanctions on 14 Chinese officials

US imposes sanctions on 14 Chinese officials

-- 2020-12-07 23:22:06

The United States on Monday imposed financial sanctions and a travel ban on 14 Chinese officials over their alleged role in Beijing’s disqualification last month of elected opposition legislator...

Biden picks Becerra as health secretary

Biden picks Becerra as health secretary

Reuters 2020-12-07 17:22:57

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for secretary of health and human services as soon as Monday, a source familiar with the decision said, as he builds...

US preparing to slap new sanctions on Chinese officials

US preparing to slap new sanctions on Chinese officials

-- 2020-12-07 11:28:31

The United States is preparing to impose sanctions on at least a dozen Chinese officials over their alleged role in Beijing’s disqualification of elected opposition legislators in Hong Kong, acc...

California COVID-19 surge prompts new lockdowns

California COVID-19 surge prompts new lockdowns

Reuters 2020-12-06 16:45:38

Designed to kick in when intensive care units in any of five regions have little remaining capacity, the order affecting Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley will close bars, hair salons and...

Venezuela votes in parliamentary election boycotted by opposition

Venezuela votes in parliamentary election boycotted by opposition

REUTERS 2020-12-06 16:25:49

Venezuelans on Sunday choose a new congress in an election that the opposition is boycotting and most Western nations call a fraud by President Nicolas Maduro to retake the last state institution not...

Trump presses Georgia governor to help overturn Biden’s victory in state

Trump presses Georgia governor to help overturn Biden’s victory in state

-- 2020-12-06 09:19:04

US President Donald Trump has pressed the Republican governor of Georgia to help overturn Joe Biden's election victory in the state. In a series of tweets, he urged governor Brian Kemp to call a spec...

Trump orders withdrawal of most US troops from Somalia

Trump orders withdrawal of most US troops from Somalia

-- 2020-12-05 20:05:37

United States President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of most American troops from Somalia, the US Department of Defence said on Friday. The decision is a part of a global pullback by the R...

'Dreamers' be protected from deportation from America, SC orders US govt

'Dreamers' be protected from deportation from America, SC orders US govt

-- 2020-12-05 12:57:48

In a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s administration, a judge on Friday ordered the US government to reopen to first-time applicants a programme that protects from deportation and grants work...

Biden says Covid vaccine won’t be mandatory in US

Biden says Covid vaccine won’t be mandatory in US

-- 2020-12-05 11:04:35

President-elect Joe Biden says Americans won't be forced to take a coronavirus vaccine when one becomes available in the US. It comes as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for the first time urged...

CPJ welcomes EU action plan to strengthen media freedom

CPJ welcomes EU action plan to strengthen media freedom

FE Online Report 2020-12-04 12:36:43

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has welcomed the important measures to strengthen media freedom and pluralism in the ‘European Democracy Action Plan’ published by the European...

World sees 1.5m deaths from pandemic with 10,000 lives lost a day

World sees 1.5m deaths from pandemic with 10,000 lives lost a day

REUTERS 2020-12-04 10:41:15

Over 1.5 million people have lost their lives due to Covid-19 with one death reported every nine seconds on a weekly average, as vaccinations are set to begin in December in a handful of developed nat...

US hits record Covid cases and hospitalisations

US hits record Covid cases and hospitalisations

BBC 2020-12-03 17:11:20

Record-high Covid infections and hospitalisations have been reported in the US, with fears they will not slow in the run-up to Christmas. The number of people in hospital passed 100,000 for the first...

Trump hints at running for presidency in 2024

Trump hints at running for presidency in 2024

REUTERS 2020-12-03 09:45:02

Donald Trump hinted he may be ready to move on to planning another run for the US presidency in 2024 as President-elect Joe Biden prepared on Wednesday to confront the raging pandemic that will likely...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...