Russia, facing lags, turns to China to produce Sputnik shots
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Russia is turning to multiple Chinese firms to manufacture the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in an effort to speed up production as demand soars for its shot.
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May 3, 2021 New Zealand’s differences with China becoming ‘harder to reconcile’, Jacinda Ardern says
New Zealand’s differences with China are becoming “harder to reconcile,” the prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said, as she called on China “to act in the world in ways that are consistent with its responsibilities as a growing power”.
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May 2, 2021 SpaceX: Elon Musk’s Dragon capsule returns to Earth after pioneering Nasa mission
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May 1, 2021 Hospital fire kills 18 coronavirus patients as India steps up jabs rollout
A fire in a Covid-19 hospital ward in western India has killed 18 patients, as a country grappling with the worst outbreak yet steps up a vaccination drive for all its adults.
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April 30, 2021 Israel stampede: Dozens crushed to death at major religious festival
Dozens of people were crushed to death during a stampede at a religious bonfire in northeast Israel on Friday, rescue services said.
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April 29, 2021 India suffers worst day of pandemic with record number of cases and deaths
India has suffered its worst day yet of the pandemic, as both new Covid-19 cases and deaths broke previous records and crematoriums in Delhi became so overloaded with bodies that they are being forced to build makeshift funeral pyres on spare patches of land.
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April 29, 2021 ‘Rebuilding a nation’: Biden calls on America to embrace sweeping plans to reshape US
President Joe Biden made a direct appeal to a primetime audience to sell his “once in a generation” agenda, one that could reshape American life through a vast expansion of federal safety nets and a renewed workforce, primed for a nation at the brink of the climate crisis and emerging from the economic fallout from a global […]
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April 28, 2021 Why a domestic catastrophe for India could also become a global vaccine crisis
Of all the developing nations, India should have been able to summon a defence against COVID’s second wave.
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April 27, 2021 Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, rights watchdog says
Human Rights Watch has accused Israeli officials of committing the crimes of apartheid and persecution, claiming the government enforces an overarching policy to “maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians”.
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April 25, 2021 Biden officially recognizes the massacre of Armenians in World War I as a genocide
(CNN)President Joe Biden on Saturday became the first US president to officially recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, risking a potential fracture with Turkey but signaling a commitment to global human rights.
