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Biden to reportedly name California Attorney General as Health Secy
Becerra, 62, has been a member of the US House of Representatives for more than two decades before beginning serving as Attorney General of California in 2017.
Evacuation notice issued on Australia's Fraser Island over bushfire
Warnings remained in place on Monday for residents in the Happy Valley region to "leave immediately" as firefighters struggled to stop the spread of the blaze, using aerial water-bombing aircraft and on the ground containment measures.
Uruguay declares 3 days of national mourning after ex-President dies
According to a statement, the government of President Luis Lacalle Pou decreed a period of national mourning from Sunday to Tuesday, with the flag at half-staff in all state departments, within the country and abroad.
UK's Queen Elizabeth II 'to wait in line' for Covid-19 vaccine
The Daily Mail report on Saturday came after the UK on December 2 approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on independent advice of its medicines regulator.
US post office to be named after slain Sikh police officer
Decks were cleared for renaming the post office at 315 Addicks Howell Road in Houston as "Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal Post Office Building" with the US Congress passing the necessary legislation, the American Bazaar said in a report on Saturday.
China launches new Earth observation satellite
The satellite, Gaofen-14, was sent into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.
California to enter new stay-at-home order
Based on the latest ICU data, the 11-county Southern California region which includes Los Angeles County, and San Joaquin Valley region in Central California, have dropped below 15 per cent ICU capacity, Xinhua news agency quoted the Department of Public Health as saying in a statement on Saturday.
China completes 1st spacecraft rendezvous, docks in lunar orbit
Chang'e-5 is one of the most complicated and challenging missions in Chinese aerospace history, as well as the world's first moon-sample mission in more than 40 years.
22 arrested in Paris anti-bill protest
BFM TV footage showed cars and barricades were set on fire in Gambetta district, west of Paris, on Saturday. Several windows, including those of a supermarket and a bank, were damaged.
Lebanon will resort to international arbitration if border demarcation talks fail
The indirect talks, brokered by the US and the UN aimed to demarcate the maritime borders with Israel which are rich with hydrocarbon energy sources, started on October 14.
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