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Hopes rise for end of pandemic as Pfizer says vaccine is 90% effective
Date: 2020-11-09 19:23:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:62 - ID:8665346
WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (MENA) - Hopes are soaring that a Covid vaccine is within reach, following news that an interim analysis has shown Pfizer/BioNTech’s candidate was 90% effective in protecting people from transmission of the virus in global ....
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Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper
Date: 2020-11-09 19:21:22 GMT - USA - World - SN:61 - ID:8665342
WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (MENA) – US President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday that he has fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and that Christopher Miller, who serves as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will become acting ....
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Pfizer, Germany’s BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine effective over 90%
Date: 2020-11-09 17:42:01 GMT - Germany - World - SN:57 - ID:8665172
BRELIN, Nov 9 (MENA) - Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech companies announced on Monday that they had found a coronavirus vaccine candidate, which is more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 ....
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Ukrainian president contracts with coronavirus
Date: 2020-11-09 17:14:36 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:53 - ID:8665226
KYIV, Nov 9 (MENA) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has tested positive for COVID-19, according to Ukrinform news agency on Monday. The head of state wrote this on his Facebook page. "There are no lucky people in the world to whom ....
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WHO: COVID-19 pandemic will not be last global health crisis
Date: 2020-11-09 13:00:26 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:36 - ID:8664829
GENEVA, Nov 9 (MENA) - The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director general has said the coronavirus pandemic will not be the last global health crisis. Addressing a WHO session Monday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed hope that the ....
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Austrian police raids 60 addresses linked to Brotherhood, Hamas
Date: 2020-11-09 11:36:19 GMT - Austria - World - SN:29 - ID:8664703
VIENNA, Nov 9 (MENA) - Austrian police on Monday raided more than 60 addresses allegedly linked to radical Islamists, with orders for 30 suspects to be questioned, prosecutors said. The operation came a week after a convicted Islamic State group ....
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Philadelphia official responsible for vote counting says getting death threats
Date: 2020-11-09 10:35:01 GMT - USA - World - SN:25 - ID:8664481
WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (MENA) - The Republican city commissioner in Philadelphia whose office is responsible for counting votes in the city, said his staff has been receiving death threats since the count began there last week, US newspaper The Hill ....
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Biden will call governors, mayors about mask mandate
Date: 2020-11-09 09:55:59 GMT - USA - World - SN:22 - ID:8664419
WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (MENA) - President-elect Joe Biden will personally call on governors around the country to enact mask mandates in their states once taking office next year, NBC News first reported on Sunday. A Biden campaign official told the ....
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Soldier kills 3 people at airfield near Russia’s Voronezh
Date: 2020-11-09 09:32:31 GMT - Russia - World - SN:19 - ID:8664432
MOSCOW, Nov 9 (MENA) - A military serviceman has killed three people at a military airfield near the city of Voronezh. He barricaded himself on the territory of a military unit, Russian news agency TASS quoted a source in the regional emergency ....
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China expects less volatility but tough relations under Joe Biden
Date: 2020-11-09 08:43:46 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:15 - ID:8664366
LONDON, Nov 9 (MENA) - Beijing expects less volatile relations with Washington under Joe Biden but does not believe the new administration will veer significantly from the hardline approach taken by Donald Trump, according to Chinese government ....
