BEIJING: China’s CanSino Biologics Inc has recruited over 20,000 participants for late-stage human trials overseas for its coronavirus vaccine, a health official said on Monday. The candidate, known as Ad5-nCoV or Convidecia, which CanSinoBIO is jointly developing with a research institute backed by the Chinese military, is among the five vaccines China has moved into Phase 3 clinical trials to …

BRUSSELS: EU and UK trade talks inched onwards under renewed pressure on Monday as transport chaos triggered by the emergence of a more contagious variant of the coronavirus in Britain overshadowed efforts to reach a Brexit deal. Only 10 days are left until January 1 when Britain will leave the EU single market and customs union and hopes of securing …

NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of Indian farmers, protesting over agricultural laws that they say threaten their livelihoods, have vowed to carry on their around-the-clock sit-ins despite cold weather that has already led to some deaths among them. Farmers from the northern states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and the desert state of Rajasthan have camped on key national …

Four doctors who worked at an Afghan prison with hundreds of Taliban inmates were among five people killed on Tuesday when a bomb attached to their car exploded, police said. The blast happened in a southern district of the city when the doctors were travelling to the Pul-e-Charkhi prison where they worked, Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said. Four doctors …

BERLIN: Countries trying to keep alive the 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear programme agreed on Monday to positively address the possibility of a US return to the accord under the Biden administration. Germany’s foreign minister urged Iran not to waste what he called a final window of opportunity. Monday’s virtual meeting of parties to the agreement the first at the …

Your one-stop destination to shop all things casual/trendy, Daaman clothing was a local brand specialising in women’s wear in Pakistan. However, like a lot of other businesses being hit by the global pandemic, especially after the months following the lockdown situation that resulted in great losses for markets, daily-wage earners as well as new ventures struggling to break through, the clothing brand, …

• Asserts it is commission’s responsibility to conduct elections • Says last four to five Senate elections have been held in first week of March ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) broke its silence on Monday on a controversy over the date of Senate election 2021, asserting that it was the commission’s constitutional and legal responsibility to conduct polls …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday awarded tickets to their candidates for Islamabad mayor’s election slated to be held on Dec 28, as Islamabad High Court rejected petitions seeking postponement of the polls. The upcoming mayor will hold office for almost two months as the five-year term of the mayor will end in February. The …

ISLAMABAD: PML-N Senator Kalsoom Parveen passed away after battling with the coronavirus here on Monday. She was 75 years old. Ms Parveen, who was elected senator in 2015 from Balochistan, had contracted the virus last month and was initially admitted to Polyclinic and later shifted to a private hospital in the capital. An official of the Senate said the body …

QUETTA: Serious differences have emerged between Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and former Islamic Ideological Council chairman and senior party leader Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani, with the latter levelling serious allegation against the party chief and rejecting the politics of the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). Former MNA and senator Sherani, who also served as provincial chief of …