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  • NY Times: Trump Administration weighs plan to place Cuba on U.S. terrorism sponsor list

    Date: 2020-12-30 08:42:25 GMT - USA - World - SN:17 - ID:8732213

    NEW YORK, Dec 30 (MENA) - State Department officials have drawn up a proposal to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a final-hour foreign policy move that would complicate plans by the incoming Biden administration to relax increased ....

  • Sinopharm says coronavirus vaccine is 79 percent effective

    Date: 2020-12-30 08:04:49 GMT - China - World - SN:12 - ID:8732115

    BEIJING, Dec 30 (MENA) - Phase 3 trials of a Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine found it was 79 percent effective, the Chinese pharma giant said on Wednesday. It added that it is lower than rival jabs developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna but a ....

  • Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved in UK

    Date: 2020-12-30 08:03:34 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:16 - ID:8732154

    LONDON, Dec 30 (MENA) - The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency on Wednesday gave the green light to Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for roll-out. The home-grown vaccine was given the OK, said the British government in a ....

  • US registers 247,000 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2020-12-30 08:01:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:15 - ID:8732112

    WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (MENA) - The United States reported 247,646 new Covid-19 cases within the past 24 hours, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The total number of confirmed infections in the US stands at 19,557,147, CNN reported, ....

  • US records 3,708 new deaths of coronavirus

    Date: 2020-12-30 07:52:20 GMT - USA - World - SN:14 - ID:8732113

    WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (MENA) - The US recorded 3,708 new deaths of coronavirus on Tuesday taking to 338,544 the total number of deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The average figure of daily deaths of the virus is 2210, the ....

  • South Korea: New infections above 1,000 for 2nd day

    Date: 2020-12-30 07:19:28 GMT - south korea - World - SN:11 - ID:8732066

    SEOUL, Dec 30 (MENA) - South Korea's new coronavirus cases stayed above 1,000 for a second straight day Wednesday and variant cases rose to five amid tougher virus curbs across the country, Yonhap reported. Adding woes to the country's battle ....

  • Millions in Britain to face Tier 4 curbs amid surge in coronavirus cases

    Date: 2020-12-30 07:15:45 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:10 - ID:8732071

    LONDON, Dec 30 (MENA) - Millions more people will be placed under stay-at-home orders today after a record high of more than 53,000 Covid cases were confirmed yesterday, reported The Times on Wednesday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson approved the ....

  • Colorado confirms first known US case of new COVID-19 strain

    Date: 2020-12-30 06:40:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:9 - ID:8732050

    WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (MENA) - Colorado has confirmed the first known US case of a new coronavirus strain that was first identified in the United Kingdom, USA Today reported. "Today we discovered Colorado’s first case of the COVID-19 variant ....

  • President Trump, Michelle Obama top 'most admired' list for 2020

    Date: 2020-12-29 21:31:29 GMT - USA - World - SN:60 - ID:8731952

    WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (MENA) – President Donald Trump was named the most admired man and Michelle Obama was named the most admired woman for 2020, ABC News reported. Trump tied with former President Barack Obama last year. This year, the president ....

  • Russia imposes retaliatory travel sanctions on senior German officials

    Date: 2020-12-29 20:14:04 GMT - Russia - World - SN:58 - ID:8731917

    MOSCOW, Dec 29 (MENA) – Russia has banned senior German security and intelligence officials from entering the country in an expansion of the country's travel ban, Euronews reported. The move by the Russian Foreign Ministry affects "the top ....

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