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Car bombs kill six in pro-Turkey north Syria


January 3, 2021

BEIRUT: Two car bombings in separate parts of Turkish-controlled areas of northern Syria killed six people on Saturday, including children, a war monitor said. In the first, a car bomb near a vegetable market killed five people including two children in the border town of Ras al-Ain, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A second explosives-rigged vehicle detonated …

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Revellers booked in France for violating Covid curbs


January 3, 2021

RENNES: Hundreds of revellers were booked for breaking coronavirus restrictions as an illegal rave in northwestern France ended on Saturday after more than two days of partying that saw clashes with the police. Police had failed to stop the underground event, which drew around 2,500 people from Thursday night in two disused warehouses in Lieuron, south of the city of …

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Five women killed in Yemen wedding hall blast


January 3, 2021

HODEIDA: Five women were killed and children were among the wounded when a projectile exploded at a New Year’s Day wedding party in Yemen’s Red Sea city of Hodeida, the latest atrocity in the war-torn nation. The Saudi-backed government and Houthi rebels blamed each other for the suspected artillery shell attack on Friday night near Hodeida’s airport, a frontline between …

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India approves AstraZeneca and local Covid vaccines, rollout in weeks


January 3, 2021

India’s drugs regulator on Sunday gave final approval for the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other by local company Bharat Biotech. The world’s second most populous country is now expected to start a massive immunisation programme within weeks, with the AstraZeneca/Oxford shot taking the lead and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin administered under …

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Pfizer, BioNTech to offer vaccine to volunteers who got placebo


January 3, 2021

Pfizer Inc and its partner BioNTech Se plan to give volunteers who received a placebo in its Covid-19 vaccine trial an option to receive a first dose of the vaccine by March 1, 2021, while staying within the study. The trial’s Vaccine Transition Option allows all participants aged 16 or older the choice to discover whether they were given the …

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Scottish leader tells EU ‘we hope to join you again’


January 3, 2021

LONDON: Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Saturday told the European Union “we hope to join you again soon” as an independent nation following Britain’s full departure from the bloc. “As an independent member of the European Union, Scotland would be a partner and a bridge-builder,” she wrote on her party’s website. A comfortable majority of Scots voted to remain …

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Deaths in air crashes rose last year despite decline in number of flights


January 3, 2021

WASHINGTON: The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes in 2020 stood at 299 worldwide, even as the number of crashes fell by more than 50 per cent, a Dutch consulting firm said on Friday. Aviation consulting firm To70 said in 2020 there were 40 accidents involving large commercial passenger planes, five of which were fatal, resulting in …

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Talk show host Larry King in hospital with Covid-19 for more than a week


January 3, 2021

Veteran talk show host Larry King has been hospitalised with Covid-19, US media has reported. Citing a “source close to the family”, CNN reported that King, one of the network’s biggest stars, has been hospitalised for more than a week at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. King, 87, has Type 2 diabetes and has had a long history …

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Iran Guards vow response to ‘any action’ amid US tensions


January 3, 2021

TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami vowed on Saturday to respond to any “action the enemy takes”, as he visited a strategic Gulf island amid rising tensions with the US. Salami was speaking on the eve of the first anniversary of the US killing of top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani in a Baghdad drone strike on January 3, …

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