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19-Mar-2021 | AFP | PTI
Takes one to know one, says Vladimir Putin on Joe Biden's 'killer' claim
Putin ruled out severing ties with the United States altogether and lobbed a jab at the 78-year-old US leader
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27-Jan-2021 | AFP | PTI
Five or six doses? Controversy over Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine vials
The difficulty in obtaining that sixth dose in practice means many countries are at loggerheads with Pfizer and facing a drop in supply.
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13-Jan-2021 | AFP | PTI
Won't achieve 'herd immunity in 2021' despite Covid-19 vaccines: WHO
Infections numbers are surging around the world, especially in Europe where nations have been forced to ramp up virus restrictions even as vaccines are rolled out
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27-Nov-2020 | AFP | PTI
US Treasury extends TikTok sale deadline to December 4, says report
US President Donald Trump's administration has expressed national security concerns over the app, claiming it could be used for Chinese espionage and threatening to ban it
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26-Nov-2020 | AFP | PTI
Judge wants three Cabinet ministers probed over Beirut blast: Report
The government resigned in the wake of the explosion, but has remained in a caretaker capacity as talks drag on to form a new one.
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21-Nov-2020 | AFP | PTI
China's aviation regulator maintains ban on Boeing 737 MAX flights
Boeing's best-selling aircraft was grounded worldwide early last year following two crashes that killed 346 passengers.
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17-Nov-2020 | AFP
Vaccine alone will not be enough to end Covid-19 pandemic, says WHO chief
'A vaccine will complement the other tools we have, not replace them,' director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said
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28-Oct-2020 | AFP | PTI
In a first pre-election win for Trump, Senate votes Amy Barrett to SC
The Senate voted 52-48 to confirm the 48-year-old judge - with GOP Senator from Maine, Susan Collins, joining Democrats to vote against the nomination
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26-Oct-2020 | AFP | PTI
Pakistan PM Imran Khan accuses French President Macron of 'attacking Islam'
Khan's comments follow statements Macron made last week after a French teacher was beheaded near Paris after he had shown cartoons of the Prophet during a class he was leading on free speech
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28-Sep-2020 | AFP | PTI
Former Audi boss Rupert Stadler to stand trial for 'dieselgate' scam
Stadler, 57, faces charges of "fraud, falsifying certifications and false advertising" according to an indictment to be read out before the Munich district court
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23-Sep-2020 | AFP | PTI
Nasa lays out $28 billion plan to return astronauts to the moon in 2024
The $28 billion would cover the budgetary years of 2021-25
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23-Sep-2020 | AFP | PTI
Julian Assange says he hears voices in prison, says psychiatrist
Michael Kopelman, a psychiatrist who has interviewed Assange around 20 times, said the former hacker would be a "very high" suicide risk if he were extradited to the US
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11-Sep-2020 | AFP | PTI
Coronavirus can directly invade your brain, reveals new US study
The research is still preliminary - but offers several new lines of evidence to support what was previously a largely untested theory
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11-Sep-2020 | AFP | PTI
ByteDance in talks with US to avoid selling TikTok, says report
TikTok, which has been downloaded 175 million times in the US and more than a billion times around the world, has filed a lawsuit challenging the crackdown by the US government
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07-Sep-2020 | AFP
Russian foreign ministry accuses Germany of stalling Alexei Navalny's probe
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused German authorities of failing to respond to a request by Russian prosecutors sent on August 27
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06-Sep-2020 | AFP | PTI
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to fight US extradition bid in UK court
Assange attorney Jennifer Robinson said the case is fundamentally about basic human rights and freedom of speech
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19-Aug-2020 | AFP | PTI
Australia to give free Covid vaccine doses to citizens: PM Scott Morrison
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia had reached a deal with Swedish-British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to receive the Covid-19 vaccine it is developing with Oxford University
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18-Aug-2020 | AFP | PTI
China accuses US of using 'digital gunboat diplomacy' over TikTok
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Monday said "freedom and security are merely excuses for some US politicians to pursue digital gunboat diplomacy"
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05-Aug-2020 | AFP | PTI
Virgin Galactic, Rolls-Royce team up to make supersonic commercial airplane
The aircraft would travel at Mach 3 - rather than the Mach 2 speed of Concorde, the pioneering jet that operated from 1976 to 2003
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05-Aug-2020 | AFP/PTI
Richard Branson space-bound in early 2021, says Virgin Galactic
The firm said it 'expects to advance to the next phase of its test flight programme' in the fall with two manned flights
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12-Jul-2020 | AFP | PTI
China warns of consequences if UK cuts Huawei out of its telecom infra
Chinese officials have threatened consequences if Britain treats it as a hostile country
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13-Jun-2020 | AFP | PTI
Black Lives Matter protests in Trump county test his hold on white voters
The protests in Republican-leaning areas offer a test of the US President's ability to reassemble his older, white voting bloc
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07-Jun-2020 | AFP | PTI
Coronavirus impact: China's exports dip 3.3%, imports shrink 16.7% in May
The plunge in imports drove the country's trade surplus up to $62.9 billion
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30-May-2020 | AFP | PTI
Istanbul hopes to host historic Champions League final despite uncertainty
Uefa suspended Champions League matches until further notice in March as Europe's football competitions were hit hard by the virus
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30-May-2020 | AFP | PTI
Tennis: Rome to host Italian Open in September, says federation president
This year's edition had been scheduled to start at the Foro Italico on May 11, but was called off because of the coronavirus pandemic
