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Foreign envoys impressed with India's progress on Covid-19 vaccine
The diplomats are on a day-long visit to Hyderabad to see the facilities at the two companies for developing coroanvirus vaccines. "Precisely because of the hope that is being placed on this vaccine candidate, the conduct of clinical trials to determine its safety, quality and efficacy as well as the regulatory standards to review data and the approval process must be above reproach", the letter... [Full Article...]
Hunter Biden says his his tax affairs are under US federal investigation
Trump and his supporters also raised unsubstantiated charges of corruption related to Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine at the time his father was vice-president and leading the Obama administration's dealings with the Eastern European nation. [Full Article...]
Hong Kong to impose new virus restrictions to battle fourth wave
Speaking ahead of a weekly meeting with policy advisers, Lam said "the strictness of social distancing measures must at least return to the level" of the outbreak's peak in the city in July and August. In-person dining restrictions hit hard in a city with some of the world's tiniest apartments, many of which have small or not fully-equipped kitchens. [Full Article...]
‘The people have spoken’: Judges reject two more election challenges
People have spoken", the judges have riveted. Trump and his allies have lost numerous cases aimed at overturning election results in states Trump lost in the November 3 election after winning them in 2016, making unfounded claims of fraud. Tuesday's deadline for states to certify their elections - once viewed as a pivot point for Republicans to mark Mr Biden's win - came and went without much comm... [Full Article...]
The Great Plane Robbery: Thieves Steal Radio Equipment From Russian 'Doomsday' Plane
Reports say unknown thieves broke into the Ilyushin Il-80 plane at an airfield in the southern region of Rostov. The interior ministry did not specify what was stolen but said that investigators had been dispatched to the scene. In May 2019, Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko said that research and development work on the modernization of air command posts based on the Il-80 and Il-82 ... [Full Article...]
Fired U.S. cyber chief sues Trump campaign, lawyer over threats
Krebs says that he has gotten a "barrage of threats" over email, text message and on social media from people who've echoed diGenova and called Krebs a traitor, and that he "faces a genuine risk of imminent harm". CISA issued a statement in November with a coalition of government and industry election officials from around the country that defended the 2020 election as the "most secure in American... [Full Article...]
Turkey challenges EU's "strategic blindness" over Mediterranean sanctions
EU foreign ministers said on Monday that Turkey had failed to help resolve a dispute with EU members Greece and Greek Cyprus over natural gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean, but they left any decision on retaliatory sanctions for an EU summit on Thursday. [Full Article...]
UAE okays China's Sinopharm vaccine
The UAE has officially registered Sinopharm's vaccine for use after it recorded 86 per cent effectiveness during phase III trials against the Covid-19 infection. Meanwhile, Oxford University and AstraZeneca became the first COVID-19 vaccine makers to publish final-stage clinical trial results in a scientific journal, clearing a key hurdle in the global race to produce safe and effective drugs fo... [Full Article...]