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Israel expects to get Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine by March, minister says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel expects to begin receiving Moderna Inc.'s coronavirus vaccines by March "at the latest", Health Minister Yuli Edelstein told Ynet TV on Thursday. In June, Israel signed an...
Dec 31, 2020
Turkey to announce interim Sinovac results in mid-Jan -head of study
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's trials of COVID-19 vaccines from China's Sinovac will reach interim results in mid-January with at least 40 infected cases, a key threshold for approvals, the coordinator o...
Dec 31, 2020
Israel juggles supplies, pace in bid for full vaccination of at-risk groups
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is juggling supplies and pace in its COVID-19 vaccination drive in the hope of meeting a late-January goal of full protection for its most vulnerable peopl...
Dec 31, 2020
Dutch lockdown to last at least to mid-February - health chief
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A national lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the Netherlands will probably have to last at least until mid-February and even then can only be partially lifted, on...
Dec 31, 2020
Vatican denies knowledge of $1.8 billion transferred to Australia
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican and the Australian Catholic Church have both denied knowledge of transfers worth US$1.8 billion which Australia's financial watchdog says have b...
Dec 31, 2020
Northern Ireland follows rest of UK, Ireland in delaying school return
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Primary and secondary school children in Northern Ireland will return to the classroom later than planned because of "unprecedented levels" of positive COVID-19 tests since Christma...
Dec 31, 2020
UK military ready to deliver 100,000 vaccine doses a day - defence secretary
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's armed forces could administer 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine a day if required, helping immunise millions of vulnerable people before the spring, Defence Secretary Ben ...
Dec 31, 2020
Hong Kong's top court puts media tycoon Jimmy Lai back in custody
By Katherine Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's top court has remanded media and publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai, the most high-profile person to be charged under the Chinese-ruled city's national se...
Dec 31, 2020
Man shot dead in gunfire exchange with Minneapolis Police
(Reuters) - Minneapolis Police shot and killed a man in an exchange of gunfire during a traffic stop in the southern part of the city late on Wednesday, in the first killing by a member of the departm...
Dec 31, 2020
European stocks retreat in thin trading, set to end 2020 with losses
(Reuters) - European stocks retreated on Thursday as investors squared positions on the last trading day of the year, while wider coronavirus lockdowns in Britain and news that the United States had r...
Dec 31, 2020
