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EU, UK set deadline for post-Brexit trade deal
The trade negotiations are at a crucial stage as time is running out for both sides to secure a deal before the Brexit transition period expires at the end of the year. Failure to reach a free trade agreement means bilateral trade will fall back on World Trade Organization (WTO) rules in 2021.
UN chief says he'll take Covid-19 vaccine
He also repeated his appeal for a bold and coordinated international approach on debt relief efforts for African countries, including debt cancellation, where appropriate, as well as the meaningful increase in the financial support to African countries to provide the necessary liquidity and to finance the recovery.
US govt hits Facebook with landmark antitrust lawsuit
The backlash comes 16 years after Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook from his Harvard dorm. From that time, Facebook has grown to become the world's biggest social network with 2.7 billion users and a market value of nearly $800 billion while Zuckerberg has become the world's fifth-richest person.
Guterres stresses need of detecting early warning signs of genocide
Genocide never fails to shock the world when it occurs. But it is never committed without clear, multiple warning signs. The victims are often early targets of hate speech, discrimination and violence, said Guterres.
Pfizer vaccine to star in America's historic Dec 10 science court
Starting 9 a.m. EST on December 10, US regulators and independent experts who make up the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) will debate if clinical evidence is strong enough to recommend vaccinating Americans 16 years of age and older.
Covid-19 threatens to steal education right of girls: Commonwealth Secy-Gen
It is also threatening to steal from millions of girls their right to education, she said. These are girls who could grow up to develop vaccines for diseases, tackle social injustices, or lead the fight against climate change, she added. But the global pandemic, she said, is depriving them of the benefits that education and training confer on individuals, their communities and the wider world.
Xi Jinping, Emmanuel Macron reach consensus on China-France ties in next stage
While calling for independence, mutual understanding, foresight, the mutual establishment of diplomatic relations between both the countries, Xi noted that it is an important consensus between China and France to maintain multilateralism, safeguard the international system with the United Nations at its core and keep the international order on the basis of international convention.
Despite Covid lockdowns, world heads to temperature rise: UN report
The UNEP's annual Emissions Gap Report 2020 reveals that despite a dip in the 2020 carbon dioxide emissions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of three-degree Celsius this century.
Boeing Starliner finishes parachute tests ahead of crewed flight
The tests mark an end to a reliability campaign that will help strengthen the spacecraft's landing system, NASA said on Tuesday.
British Indian couple among 1st in world to receive Covid vaccine
Hari Shukla, an 87-year-old doctor and his 83-year-old wife, Ranjan Shukla, from the northeast of England became the first Indian-origin couple in the world to get the Covid shot after they were vaccinated at a hospital in Newcastle.
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