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Samsung heir sentenced to prison for corruption
The Seoul High Court gave Lee, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., the prison term for bribing Park and her longtime friend, Choi Soon-sil, to win government support for a smooth transition of managerial power at the tech giant.
Australia seeks info on deaths in Norway after Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccination
The Norwegian Medicines Agency (NOMA) said they could not rule out the possibility that vaccination side effects including fever and nausea had contributed to the deaths, but noted the country was vaccinating elderly people with serious underlying diseases.
Inauguration Day dinner features Kamala Harris' favourite dish
Robert Dorsey is serving Harris' favourite dish, the seafood gumbo, which is a soup that primarily consists a strongly-flavoured stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener, along with celery, bell peppers and onions. Gumbo is the official state cuisine of Louisiana. According to the chef, he and the Vice President-elect attended the Thousand Oaks Elementary school in Berkeley and had the same first grade teacher, Frances Wilson, ABC7 News reported on Sunday.
Australian PM urged to rebuke lawmaker for Covid disinformation
The poll published by the think tank Australia Institute found that 76 per cent of Australians agreed that Morrison "has a responsibility to clearly and publicly criticize" members of his governing Liberal National Party coalition who spread misinformation about the pandemic.
From Shyamala Gopalan to Kamala Devi Harris: A timeline of two audacious journeys
Harris will be the first Indian and Black American, first woman and first woman of colour to ever win the election to Americas highest political office. Her journey was made possible by another audacious traveller - her mother Shyamala Gopalan, who arrived in America as a 19-year-old in 1958, on an academic scholarship
US under Joe Biden to join Paris climate deal, lift Muslim travel ban
Biden will sign at least 12 executive orders on the first day of his presidential term and will roll back the US into the Paris Agreement for climate change once again. Meanwhile, he will also repeal the travel ban on Muslims who hail from certain Islamic nations, Ron Klain said.
'UK likely to introduce new laws to protect historic statues'
It followed the removal of a statue in Bristol of merchant and philanthropist Edward Colston over his link to the slave trade and calls for street names linked to slave traders or the country colonial past to be changed. The statue of Colston was dragged from its pedestal, rolled through city streets and thrown into the harbour at the height of Black Lives Matter campaigns last year.
EU-initiated payment system not working due to US sanctions: Iran
The system, known also as the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), is a mechanism set up by France, Germany and the UK in January 2019 to facilitate trade with Iran by skirting the US anti-Tehran sanctions. The INSTEX channel was basically designed to save the Iranian nuclear deal, internationally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), after the US pullout in 2018
73% drop in election misinformation since Trump ban: Report
The research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm Zignal Labs found that conversations about election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 mentions across several social media sites in the week after Trump was banned on Twitter on January 8.
Trump and his supporters have also lost accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, Spotify, Shopify and other social media platforms.
96 dead, nearly 70k displaced as quake, floods hit Indonesia
A total of 81 people were killed after the 6.2-magnitude quake and the 5.9-magnitude aftershock struck West Sulawesi province on January 14 and January 15. Meanwhile, 15 people were killed in South Kalimantan as floods have hit the province since January 14.
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