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The rapid development and approval of drugs has been hailed the world over, questions remain about the availability, effectiveness and side effects of the jabs.

Iran is extending a nighttime traffic curfew to 330 lowerrisk cities and towns in an effort to sustain a recent decline in the number of new coronavirus infections and deaths, state television reported on Saturday.

More than 4,500 lorries, among a huge backlog of trucks stranded for days in the British port of Dover, crossed the Channel on Friday after extra troops were deployed to step up coronavirus testing, a minister said.

he decision was a turnaround after the Trump administration told U.S. airlines on Tuesday it was not planning to require any testing for arriving UK passengers.

The chief of police in Columbus, Ohio, said on Thursday he has concluded that an officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black man earlier this week engaged in an act of "senseless violence" that should immediately cost the officer his job.

Chile, the first country in South America to begin vaccinating against COVID19, started innoculations on Thursday after receiving its initial 10,000 doses from PfizerBioNtech.

The trade deal with the European Union provides a new stability and a new certainty, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

As trade talks with the United Kingdom ground to deadlock on Dec. 9, one European Union official summed up the mood in Brussels, writing in a memo: "The Brits ... are taking us for a ride, we must remain firm."

A Russian court sentenced a married couple in the Kaliningrad region to long jail terms on Thursday after finding them guilty of spying for Latvia, the FSB security service said, saying the pair had been found guilty of state treason.

Northern Ireland on Wednesday confirmed a positive test for the highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in Britain.

A German crematorium in the eastern state of Saxony, which has been hit hard by the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, is struggling to keep up with the number of people who have died from COVID19 just before Christmas.

The latest incident unfolded in the early hours of Tuesday after officers responded to a non-emergency complaint about a man turning a car on and off for an extended period, Columbus police said in a statement.

The U.S. government will pay Pfizer Inc nearly $2 billion for 100 million additional doses of its COVID19 vaccine to bolster its supply as the country grapples with a nationwide spike in infections.

Although the petitioners demanded an interim order against the decision, the apex court has refused to issue any such order.

Israeli envoys arrived in Morocco on Tuesday to meet the king and flesh out an upgrade of relations that was forged by the White House in a parting foreign policy push by U.S. President Donald Trump.

As Singapore prepares to roll out COVID19 vaccinations its striking success in controlling the virus is making some question whether they should take the jabs.