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A New York intensive care nurse has become the first person in the US to received a coronavirus at the start of a mass vaccination . The aim is to 100 million people by April. The US is one of the countries hardest-hit by the .
The UN science organization says education workers should be among the first to be . said it was vital to keep schools open to disruption to learning.
The college is voting for the next US president, a process that will formally Joe Biden's election victory. Donald Trump's attempts to cancel the outcome have failed, but there has been concern for the safety of the electors.
The authorities in northern Nigeria say the gunmen who abducted dozens of shool boys on Friday have contacted them. Talks about the students' safe return are said to be underway.
Washington says it is imposing sanctions on Turkey's military procurement agency. The move follows Ankara's decision to buy Russian air defense systems.
A 5-week lockdown is coming into force in the Netherlands to slow down the spread of the pandemic. Restrictions are also been tightened in the Czech republic and in parts of Britain, including London. And the British government says a new strain of coronavirus has been identified in the capital. The WHO is investigating the case.
New restrictions are also coming into force in South Africa. There will be overnight curfews and alcohol sales will be limited to cutdown on the number of super-spreader events.
The bodies of more than 800 ethnic Armenian soldiers are said to have been recovered since the end of the conflict of N-K. Armenia and Azerbaijan say a prison swap is also underway.
The Cleveland Indians is planning to change its name. The US baseball team said native Americans thought the current one as damaging and it wanted to bring people together. |