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WHO in talks with Russia on Covid-19 vaccine

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Post date August 12, 2020
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The World Health Organization (WHO) says discussions are underway with Russia regarding a possible pre-qualification of the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine.

“We’re in close contact with the Russian health authorities and discussions are underway regarding a possible pre-qualification of the vaccine by WHO,” WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told a virtual press briefing on Tuesday, reports Xinhua.

Jasarevic explained that the pre-qualification of any vaccine involves rigorous review and evaluation of all the data required for safety and efficacy in clinical trials and noted that at the WHO level, this process would be the same for any candidate.

He said each country has national regulatory bodies that approve the use of vaccines or drugs in its territory. ……….

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US race protests: Protesters clash with cops

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Post date July 27, 2020
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US police used flashbang grenades, pepper spray and tear gas as protestors marched in cities across the country on Saturday amid a wave of public anger over Donald Trump’s planned “surge” of federal agents into major metropolises.

The demonstrations against racism and police brutality — sparked by the death in Minneapolis of unarmed African-American George Floyd — come as the US president faces an increasingly tough battle for re-election, and is campaigning heavily on a platform of “law and order”.

Protestors marched in Austin, Texas, as well as Louisville in Kentucky, New York, Omaha, California’s Oakland and Los Angeles, and Richmond in Virginia –………

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Relief scarce in flood-hit are

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Post date July 25, 2020
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Many flood-hit people are passing their days in starvation as the government’s relief allocation is insufficient, victims said.

In some places, flood victims alleged the local people’s representatives of nepotism in distributing relief, thus depriving those in actual need of aid.

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What is pooled testing for COVID-19 and how can it help fight the virus?

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Post date July 25, 2020
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Quest Diagnostics on Saturday received the first emergency authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration to use pooled testing to help reduce its backlog of COVID-19 tests. The following is a description of how it works and the advantages and disadvantages of pooled testing.

How does pooled testing work?

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More than 40 countries accuse N Korea of breaching UN sanctions

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Post date July 24, 2020
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The 15-member UN Security Council imposed an annual cap of 500,000 barrels in December 2017 in a bid to cut off fuel for North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

But in a complaint to the UN Security Council North Korea sanctions committee, 43 countries – including the United States, Britain and France – said they estimated that in the first five months of this year Pyongyang had imported more than 1.6 million barrels of refined petroleum via 56 illicit tanker deliveries.

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103-year-old Pakistani man survives COVID-19

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Post date July 24, 2020
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Aziz Abdul Alim, a resident of a village in the mountainous northern district of Chitral, was released last week from an emergency response centre after testing positive in early July.

“We were worried for him given his age, but he wasn’t worried at all,” Alim’s son Sohail Ahmed told Reuters on the phone from his village, close to Pakistan’s border with China and Afghanistan.

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Goldman Sachs agrees $3.9bn 1MDB settlement with Malaysia

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Post date July 24, 2020
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The deal includes a $2.5 billion cash payout by Goldman and a guarantee by the bank to return at least $1.4 billion in proceeds from assets linked to sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the two sides said.

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