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EU begins Covid-19 vaccination campaign

Vaccination campaign hailed as ‘key’ to defeating Covid-19

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Vietnam administers its own Covid-19 vaccine to volunteers

 A total of 60 volunteers, aged between 18 and 50, selected for first phase of clinical trials  

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First Covid-19 vaccines administered in Spain

96-year-old is first Spaniard vaccinated for the coronavirus

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Japan to halt all new entries from abroad next week: ministry

Plans to strengthen quarantine requirements on all travellers returning to Japan

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Europe begins vaccine roll-out as new virus strain spreads fears

First doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab arrived in hard-hit Italy, Spain and France yesterday, ready for distribution to retirement homes and care staff

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Niger stages historic elections despite jihadist attacks

Current frontrunner Mohamed Bazoum is the designated successor of the former president, who stepped down voluntarily after two terms        

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Argentine Catholics, evangelicals join forces against abortion bill

Proposed legislation will be debated and voted on in Senate on Tuesday

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US wants vaccine payments routed through its banks, says Iran

Hassan Rouhani fears money could be seized

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Central African Republic goes to the polls amid unrest

Militia groups active in two-thirds of the country spark fears of voter obstruction and intimidation efforts

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4 die in Pakistan military copter crash

Aircraft goes down in mountainous Gilgit-Baltistan region ‘due to technical reasons’

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Biden election throws spanner into post-Brexit hopes

Brexiteers’ hopes for special US-UK relationship looking shaky without Donald Trump in White House

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Covid-19 won’t be last pandemic, WHO chief warns

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus raps ‘dangerously short-sighted’ cycle of throwing cash at outbreaks, but not making preparations for the next one

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3 killed, 3 injured in Illinois shooting

Local police say they have a person of interest in custody.