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Britain's Department of Health said on Sunday that medicines regulator MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) must be given time to carry out its review of the data of the OxfordAstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine.

At least 10 climbers have died and several more are missing in mountains north of Iran's capital Tehran after heavy snowfall, state media reported on Saturday, and the seven crew members of a ship are also missing after storms in the Gulf.

George Blake, who died in Russia on Saturday at the age of 98, was the last in a line of British spies whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliated the intelligence establishment when it was discovered at the height of the Cold War.

Two climbers were killed and two others injured on Friday on a mountain outside Iran's capital Tehran during heavy snowfall and a blizzard, the country's emergency unit said.

In the first wave of infections, which peaked during the winter months between June and July, the positivity rate reached as high as 27%.

Iran has won U.S. approval to transfer funds for coronavirus vaccines from overseas, the central bank chief said on Thursday, as its daily death toll fell to a threemonth low.

More than 600,000 people in the United Kingdom have received the first dose of the PfizerBioNTech COVID19 vaccine since inoculations began in the country earlier this month, the British government said on Thursday.

The October 2009 incident ended after five hours when the grounded balloon was found to be empty and Falcon emerged from a hiding place at the family home.

Turkey will initially receive three million doses of Sinovac and have the option for 50 million more as it begins inoculations next month, starting with healthcare workers and the most vulnerable.

Cybersecurity expert Steven Adair and his team were in the final stages of purging the hackers from a think tank's network earlier this year when a suspicious pattern in the log data caught their eye.

Israel will impose a third national lockdown to fight climbing COVID19 infections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.

A video taken by a meteorologist in South Dakota and posted to social media on Wednesday shows twenty seconds of a frightening drive through a heavy blizzard.

A fire at a migrant centre housing about 1,200 people in northwestern Bosnia on Wednesday was probably set by migrants displeased with its temporary closure, police and a United Nations official said.

A former Survivor contestant has been charged in Virginia with grand larceny, authorities said.

Indiana casino regulators voted Wednesday to force a longtime heavyweight in the states gambling industry to give up his ownership stake in a Lake Michigan casino, saying he had continued exerting control over its parent company in violation of state orde...

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