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Tesla to recall 135,000 U.S. vehicles

FILE PHOTO: A Tesla sales and service center is shown in Costa Mesa, California, U.S. June 28, 2018. /Xinhua Tesla Inc. has agreed to recall 134,951 Model S and Model X vehicles with touchscre

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United Airlines aims to have voluntary testing by February

A United Airlines airplane takes off on the runway at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Oct. 15, 2020. /AP United Airlines, which reported a $7.1 billion net loss for 2020

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Man gets 4 years in jail for participating in 2019 Hong Kong riots

A Hong Kong court sentenced Chan Cho-ho, a 25-year-old man, to four years in jail on Monday for participating in violent clashes in the city on August 31, 2019.Chan, wh

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India begins massive national vaccination campaign

Many frontline workers throughoutIndia received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccines Saturday, in the start of what is expected to become India's largest national vaccine campaign in history.India is

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Iran to Expel UN Nuclear Inspectors Unless US Sanctions are Lifted in February, MP Says

The Iranian parliament has warned that the Islamic Republic will expel International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors from its nuclear sites if the US sanctions a

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Mainland slams Taiwan council's 'warning' on COVID-19 vaccines

A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Monday accused Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council of making groundless accusations about the mainland's COVID-19 vaccines, after it "w

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Australians expected to be fully vaccinated by October 2021, says minister

Australia's Minister for Health Greg Hunt said on Monday that the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the country was expected to be completed by the end of October in 2021

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Russia President Vladimir Putin to receive SputnikV vaccine

Russian President Vladimir Putin. /VCG Russian President Vladimit Putin will receive the SputnikV coronavirus vaccine, the Kremlin spokesman told state TV channel Rossiya 1, but no date has be

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Serbia begins vaccinating against COVID-19 – with the PM jabbed on TV

01:38 On Thursday morning, at the Torlak Institute for Virology in Belgrade, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić received a jab against the COVID-19 virus.She was accompanied by her lab

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Japan's ex-PM Abe questioned by prosecutors over dinner parties

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was questioned by Tokyo prosecutors on or before Thursday over allegations that his office illegally used political funds to pay for dinner parties, commerci

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Swedish king says 'we have failed' over COVID-19, as deaths mount

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (2nd R) and his wife Iriana (1st R) show a Bogor botanical garden to Swedish King Carl XVI Gustav (2nd L) and Queen Silvia during their visit in Bogor, West Java

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Russian PM Forecasts 'Explosive' Demand for Sputnik V Vaccine Amid Pandemic

Numerous countries have expressed hope in obtaining the Russian vaccine as soon as possible. The expectations became even higher as researchers announced that the effic

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Spain's former king submits papers to sort out tax affairs: report

Spain's former King Juan Carlos I has submitted a declaration to the Spanish tax office seeking to put his financial situation in order, El Pais newspaper reported on Sunday.The voluntary declaration

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Russia confirms single-day record of 28,145 new COVID-19 cases

VCG Image Russia registered 28,145 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest number of daily increase to date, the country's COVID-19 response center said Thursday.The country ha

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Iran's Lawmakers Pass Bill to Boost Nuclear Activity in Wake of Top Scientist's Murder, Reports Say

The Iranian parliament has passed a bill, dubbed "The strategic measure for the removal of sanctions," aimed at revitalizing the country's nuclear activities in the wak

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G7 Ministers urge private sector debt relief for poor countries

FILE PHOTO: G7 finance ministers on Friday called on private lenders to participate in a debt suspension program for the poorest nations that was announced in April as the coronavirus attacked gl

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Putin offers U.N. staff a dose of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine for free

VCG Image Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered United Nations staff a dose of the Russia-developed Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine for free.Putin made the offer in his pre-recorded video ad