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Indonesia receives over a million Chinese Covid-19 vaccine doses

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Indonesia has received 1.2 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine made by China's Sinovac, officials said,…

Biden picks California official Becerra for health secretary: report

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Joe Biden plans to nominate California attorney general Xavier Becerra for secretary of health and…

Chinese Covid-19 vaccine maker gets $500 million funding boost

BEIJING, China (AFP) -- Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech has secured half a billion dollars in extra funding to produce…

Trump allies take Pennsylvania vote complaint to US Supreme Court

  WASHINGTON, UNited States (AFP) -- Allies of President Donald Trump have sought an emergency order  from the US Supreme…

Mass evacuation in Frankfurt as WWII bomb is defused

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) -- Nearly 13,000 residents were evacuated in Frankfurt on Sunday as experts defused an unexploded World War…

Toll rises to 23 in southern China mining accident

BEIJING, China (AFP) -- Twenty-three miners have been confirmed dead after an accident at a coal mine in southern China,…

US, China dominated arms market in 2019: report

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) -- US and Chinese companies dominated the global arms market in 2019, while the Middle East made…

Giuliani latest Covid-19 diagnosis in Trump inner circle

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US President Donald Trump said Sunday his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for…

Pandemic sends hunger rising in America, and children bear the brunt

by Chris Stein Agence France Presse Before the pandemic closed her middle school and US immigration agents deported her father…

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth to get Covid-19 vaccine ‘in weeks’: reports

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, after UK regulators…

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