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Singapore beginning to stabilise amid pandemic: Hsien Loong

Republic looks forward to rebound in 2021, says its prime minister

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Algeria to roll out contentious Russia vaccine next month

Authorities will receive initial shipment of 500,000 doses of Sputnik V

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Iraq tensions boil a year after US killing of Iran general

Iraq PM faces pro-Tehran forces accusing him of complicity in the strike

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37 Syria soldiers killed in IS ambush

It’s one of the deadliest attacks since fall of jihadists’ ‘caliphate’ in March last year, says war monitor

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China registers first case of UK coronavirus strain

Patient is a 23-year-old woman from Shanghai who arrived from UK on December 14

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Italy targets 15 mil vaccinated against Covid-19 by April

First group to be inoculated will be 1.8 million doctors, nurses, and nursing home residents and staff

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Tokyo hits new record with over 1,000 fresh infections

PM calls emergency talks with ministers on Covid-19 situation today

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11 missing in massive Norway ‘quick clay slide’

Landslide ‘one of the largest’ the country has seen, says PM

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2 dead, 7 missing as ship sinks in China

Vessel loaded with 4,700 tonnes of cement

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After Croatia quake, Slovenia nuke plant to restart

Shutdown was facility’s automatic response to 6.4-magnitude jolt on Tuesday

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US ‘most prolific serial killer’ dies aged 80

Samuel Little confessed to killing 93 people, mostly women

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Iran honours ‘martyr’ Soleimani, killed a year ago by US

Attack on military leader heightened tensions between both countries

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US logs 3,900 Covid-19 deaths in new daily record

Count brings country to 341,845 deaths since pandemic began