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President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe.The president-elect took a dose of Pfizer vaccine at a hospital not far from his Delaware home, hours after his wife, Jill Biden, did the same.Nurse practitioner […]

An employee holds up a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at The New Jewish Home long-term care facility on Manhattan, Upper West Side in New York on Dec. 21, 2020. (AFP Photo)  The European Union on Monday gave official approval for the coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer to be put onto the […]

A 3D-printed coronavirus model is seen in front of a British flag on display in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. (Reuters) A new variant of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Britain and prompting high levels of concern among its European neighbors, some of which have cut transport links. The strain, referred […]

The growing diplomatic tension between Kenya and Somalia featured at the 38th Extra-Ordinary Summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) meeting held in Djibouti yesterday. President Uhuru Kenyatta attended the meeting convened by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok of Sudan, who is the current Chairperson of the Igad Assembly. It was attended by presidents Ismail […]

U.S. congressional leaders reached agreement on Sunday on a $900 billion package to provide the first new aid in months to an economy and individuals battered by the surging coronavirus pandemic, with votes likely on Monday. The package would be the second-largest economic stimulus in U.S. history, following a $2.3 trillion aid bill passed in March. US […]

Addis Abeba, December 21/2020 – Opposition party Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), said yesterday that ten of its members, including two journalists working for its broadcast, Sagaallee Billiisummaa Oromo (SBO), were arrested by government security forces over the weekend. In a separate statement it issued today, OLF said it doesn’t know the whereabouts of the ten people who it said were arrested over the […]

American troops leaving Somalia are moving to other bases in East Africa, wrote U.S. Africa Command chief Gen. Stephen Townsend in a statement on Saturday. Though he did not specify which countries American forces would redeploy to, Townsend emphasized that the mission against the insurgent group Al Shabaab continues. “To be clear, the U.S. is […]

A staff member displays samples of the COVID-19 inactivated vaccine at Sinovac Biotech Ltd., in Beijing, capital of China, March 16, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei) BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) — Clinical trials and emergency inoculations so far have shown that China’s COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, a Chinese expert said on Monday. China has already conducted […]

 The EU will put a “solid health protocol” in place in the “coming hours” to reestablish flows of traffic from the United Kingdom into the bloc, France’s transport minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari has said. Officials in both the UK and the EU will meet on Monday after a host of countries banned travel from the country due […]

Thurrock, in Essex, now has England’s highest Covid rate following the news of a virus mutation which may be up to 70% more contagious. Over the weekend, Boris Johnson plunged London and parts of the South East into tier four amid fears the new variant of the virus, known as VUI-202012/01, was responsible for more […]