A nurse administers the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine to Margaret Keenan , 90, at University Hospital in Coventry, central England on December 8, 2020. PHOTO | AFP A 90-year-old British woman has become the first person in the world to receive a coronavirus vaccine as the UK begins its mass vaccination
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The U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs voted Wednesday to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from a category of the world's most dangerous drugs, which could impact the global medical marijuana industry. The Vienna-based U.N. agency said in a statement that it had voted 27-25, with one abstention, to follow the
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US President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of nearly all US troops from Somalia by 15 January, the Pentagon has said. The US has about 700 troops in the country helping local forces battle al-Shabab and Islamic State militants. US officials said some of the troops would move to
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The dollar index hit an almost three-month low on Friday after strong economic data from China pushed investors toward riskier currencies and equity markets extended their rally. The dollar has fallen more than two per cent so far this month after Democratic US President-elect Joe Biden's election victory and positive
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One of the world’s most popular beverages has overcome remarkable hurdles to carry on during the pandemic. What does it take to make a cup of coffee in 2020? In what has been a strange year for those people forced to work from home, little daily habits have helped to
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed(pictured) says he is launching the "final phase" of the army's operation in the northern region of Tigray after weeks of fighting. He said the military would try not to harm civilians in the regional capital Mekelle - a city of 500,000 people - and urged
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Donald Trump (pictured above) has accepted a formal US transition should begin for President-elect Joe Biden to take office. The president said the federal agency overseeing the handover must "do what needs to be done", even as he vowed to keep contesting his election defeat. The General Services Administration (GSA)
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Grade Four Pupils of Parklands Baptist School play during break time on November 19. Learners will have to study under trees, in tents and in dining halls when schools reopen in January if the government does not address the infrastructure challenge within the next one month since nearly all available
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Vendors sell fresh produce at a market in Abuja. Photographer: KC Nwakalor/Bloomberg Africa’s largest economy has slumped into a recession in the third quarter as oil production dropped to a four-year low. Nigeria’s gross domestic product shrank 3.6% in the three months through September from a year earlier, compared with
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President Yoweri Museveni The International Criminal Court has acknowledged receipt of a petition by Uganda’s Opposition seeking to have President Yoweri Museveni investigated for alleged ‘crimes against humanity’. In a letter to Warren Kizza Besigye dated November 11, 2020, Mark P. Dillon, the head of Information and Evidence Unit at
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