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President-elect Joe Biden says "science will always be at the forefront of my administration,” and he is elevating the post of science adviser to Cabinet level, a White House first. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3oLmRj3

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Twenty-three people died in Norway within days of receiving their first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine with 13 of those deaths apparently related to the side effects of the shots, New York Post reported citing the health officials. All 13 were nursing home patients and at least 80 years old. Common reactions to the vaccine, including fever and nausea, "may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients," New York Post quoted Sigurd Hortemo, chief physician at the Norwegian Medicines Agency, as saying in a statement on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3igR9rA

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Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right party on Saturday chose Armin Laschet, the pragmatic governor of Germany's most populous state, as its new leader- sending a signal of continuity months before an election in which voters will decide who becomes the new chancellor. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XKMXGX

The Taliban welcomed the latest withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan with the insurgents' spokesman Saturday calling the continued reduction of American forces a "good advancement" even as fighting raged across the war-weary country. The Taliban's statement came just hours after the Pentagon announced it had cut troop levels in Afghanistan to 2,500, their lowest numbers during the nearly two decades of fighting. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qqfii3

US-based companies, such as IT services companies and staffing companies, that sponsor H-1B visa holders and depute them to work at customer sites, face a new stumbling block. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/38QSl1u

Ahead of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting in February, the United States has re-designated Pakistani terrorist groups as Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as foreign terrorist organisations. The designation of the Pakistani terror groups as foreign terrorist organisations by Washington comes just weeks before the Financial Action Task Force's meeting in February wherein the status of Islamabad in the grey list would be discussed. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/35J2fAE

Astrazeneca's Covid-19 vaccine has been granted approval for emergency use in Pakistan, the country's health minister said on Saturday, the first vaccine against the disease to be given the green light in the South Asian country. "DRAP granted emergency use authorisation to AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine," Pakistan's health minister Faisal Sultan said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/38MuNuU

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Ahead of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting in February, the United States has re-designated Pakistani terrorist groups as Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as foreign terrorist organisations. The designation of the Pakistani terror groups as foreign terrorist organisations by Washington comes just weeks before the Financial Action Task Force's meeting in February wherein the status of Islamabad in the grey list would be discussed. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/35J2fAE

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Footage showed two missiles smash into a target that Iranian state television described as ``hypothetical hostile enemy ships'' at a distance of 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles). The report did not specify the type of missiles used. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nPWqHu

The report, entitled "International Migration 2020," showed that two-thirds of registered migrants lived in just 20 countries, with the United States at the top of the list, with 51 million international migrants in 2020. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3oS9cGV

A spokesman for the FBI’s San Francisco office said he could not provide any details about the reported interaction or confirm whether agents actually paid a visit to the person who posted that message. But “if he has our business card and said he was visited, I’m pretty sure we visited him,” the spokesman said. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3qjT1m2

Protesters, many of them monks, gathered outside the Insein Prison in Myanmar’s main city of Yangon, where Wirathu has been held since November last year. Police said they had not set out to break the protest up but had been provoked and has arrested one protester. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3bKKV1G

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Germany's Christian Democrats elect a new chairman on Saturday, aiming to unite their conservative party behind a new leader who they hope can succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor when she steps down after federal elections in September. Centrist Armin Laschet, arch-conservative Friedrich Merz and foreign policy expert Norbert Roettgen are vying for the CDU leadership. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XKmN7k

President-elect Joe Biden said Friday his administration would surge federal resources into community vaccination centers and mobile health clinics to accelerate the rollout of Covid-19 shots. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2LQAajE

President-elect Joe Biden said Friday his administration would surge federal resources into community vaccination centers and mobile health clinics to accelerate the rollout of Covid-19 shots. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/2LQAajE

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