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Zuckerberg reportedly told the employees during the meeting on Thursday that "some workers have already returned to their buildings in countries with lower rates of Covid-19 and in other limited circumstances".

Meanwhile, the British prime minister pledged to keep going and go the extra mile towards a way to seek an agreement with the EU. Johnson said, "The United Kingdom has been incredibly flexible. We tried very hard to make progress on all sorts of things."

The drills will see the participation of more than 30 countries, including the US, the UK, China, Japan, Turkey, the Philippines, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

India has purchased the maximum amount of Covid-19 vaccine in the world which is 1.6 billion doses yet the country would be able to cover only 59 per cent of its population. The data indicates that once Covid-19 vaccines will enter the market, most of the amount will go to the countries with high income. Lower and middle-income countries and equity-focused partnerships like COVAX will not have enough to meet their targets.

In the week ending December 5, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits increased by 137,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised level of 716,000, according to a report released on Thursday by the Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

"Yemen is teetering on the edge of complete collapse," Fore told the high-level event "Averting famine in Yemen: What can we do now and in 2021," noting that life is "a waking nightmare" for 12 million children in the war-torn country, which has been mired in a civil war since late 2014.

Moroccan King Mohammed VI has informed US President Donald Trump during a telephonic conversation on Thursday that his country "will also work on developing innovative relationships in the economic and technological fields with Israel," the statement said.

The latest growth forecast in a supplement to Asian Development 2020 shows an improvement from the -0.7 per cent GDP growth forecast in September, while the outlook for 2021 remains unchanged. Developing Asia’s subregions are forecast to contract this year, except for East Asia, which is expected to grow higher than earlier projected. 

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, during an online interactive session organised by Australian think tank Lowy Institute said China has given India five differing explanations for the massive deployment at the LAC.

Vice President of the US Mike Pence introduced the members of the Artemis Team on Wednesday during the eighth National Space Council meeting at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The astronauts on the Artemis Team come from a diverse range of backgrounds, expertise, and experience.