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First Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses to arrive in Canada on Sunday – official
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The first doses of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Canada later on Sunday, with more of the initial batch of 30,000 coming on Monday, the official in charge of Canada's...
Dec 13, 2020
Iran controls oil pipeline spillage, fire in southwest
DUBAI (Reuters) - A pipeline carrying crude oil to Iran's second largest refinery ruptured and burst into flames on Sunday, but the spillage and the blaze were brought under control, Iranian news agen...
Dec 13, 2020
UK reports 18,447 new COVID-19 cases, 144 deaths
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain reported on Sunday 18,447 cases of coronavirus and 144 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, marking a decline on Saturday's tallies, according to government data. (Repo...
Dec 13, 2020
Parents pray for hundreds of students kidnapped in Nigeria’s Katsina
KANKARA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Parents converged on a secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina state on Sunday, begging authorities to save hundreds of boys abducted by gunmen. The army had ex...
Dec 13, 2020
Spain could develop coronavirus herd immunity by end of summer 2021, minister says
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain should achieve herd immunity from COVID-19 by the end of summer 2021 if enough people are vaccinated by then, the health minister said in an interview published on Sunday. Sal...
Dec 13, 2020
Italy plans primrose-shaped gazebos for COVID-19 vaccine campaign
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy plans to set up primrose-shaped pavilions in its artistic squares to dispense vaccines against the highly contagious disease caused by the novel coronavirus during a campaign t...
Dec 13, 2020
New COVID-19 cases in Netherlands jump by almost 10,000 – data
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The number of new coronavirus infections in the Netherlands has jumped by almost 10,000 in the past 24 hours, data released by national health authoriites showed on Sunday, marki...
Dec 13, 2020
About 70 anti-Lukashenko protesters detained in Belarus – rights group
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police in Belarus detained about 70 of demonstrators at a Sunday march, the Belarusian rights group Viasna-96 (Spring-96) said, as weekly protests demanding the resignation of veter...
Dec 13, 2020
Sudanese PM arrives in Ethiopia with offer to mediate in Tigray
By Khalid Abdelaziz ADDIS ABABA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok arrived in Ethiopia on Sunday with what a senior Sudanese government source said was an offer to mediate in t...
Dec 13, 2020
Swiss hospitals implore health minister to tighten coronavirus restrictions
ZURICH (Reuters) - The directors of five of Switzerland's largest hospitals have written to the health minister asking for urgent measures to reduce coronavirus infections, the SonntagsZeitung newspap...
Dec 13, 2020
