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  Last update: 01:24 GMT 28.11.2020

  01:24 GMT 28.11.2020

  US

  United Airlines Reportedly Starts Charter Flights to Distribute Pfizer Vaccine Against COVID-19

  US President Donald Trump earlier announced that the delivery of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer in partnership with BioNTech will kick off next week.

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  Last update: 23:24 GMT 27.11.2020

  23:24 GMT 27.11.2020

  US

  Ex-Aide Calls New York Governor Andrew Cuomo a 'Snarling Attack Dog’ After Book Release & Emmy Win

  Alexis Grenell, who was Cuomo’s deputy director of intergovernmental affairs when he was state attorney general, has attacked her former boss for penning a book about COVID-19 while the pandemic is still raging.

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  Last update: 20:56 GMT 27.11.2020

  20:56 GMT 27.11.2020

  World

  WHO Scientists Want to See 'More Than a Press Release' on AstraZeneca's Vaccine

  Doubts have emerged about the vaccine's efficiency after AstraZeneca released interim results of its candidate vaccine on Monday showing two different levels of efficacy depending on the dosing regimen.

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  Last update: 19:30 GMT 27.11.2020

  19:30 GMT 27.11.2020

  Society

  Black Friday: How COVID Pandemic Changed Shopping Habits in 2020

  Black Friday usually marks the start of the holiday shopping season when millions of people go out to stores to buy their Christmas presents. But the Covid-19 pandemic means that this year people are stuck at home and the day will be different in many key aspects.

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  Last update: 18:18 GMT 27.11.2020

  18:18 GMT 27.11.2020

  Middle East

  Iranian Ayatollah's Military Adviser Vows Revenge for Assassination of Nuclear Physicist

  TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Hossein Dehghan, a military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Friday that the assassination of Iranian Defence Ministry official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh would not be left without response.

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  Last update: 00:47 GMT 28.11.2020

  00:47 GMT 28.11.2020

  India

  India Enters Technical Recession as Its GDP Contracts 7.5%

  NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - India has entered a technical recession, as the country's GDP has contracted 7.5 percent in the second quarter of the 2020-2021 financial year, following a 23.9 decline recorded in the first quarter, the Indian Statistics Ministry said in a press release on Friday.

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  Last update: 04:55 GMT 27.11.2020

  04:55 GMT 27.11.2020

  World

  Coronavirus Live Updates: Number of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in US Surpasses 13 Million

  The global death toll from the coronavirus has topped 1.447 million, over 61,90 million cases of the infection have been detected, and over 42,7 million people have recovered, according to Baltimore, Maryland's Johns Hopkins University, which tracks and compiles data from national and local authorities, the media and other sources.

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  Last update: 19:46 GMT 27.11.2020

  19:46 GMT 27.11.2020

  Opinion

  China’s New Tariffs on Australia Show a Worsening Relationship Between the Two Nations, Says Expert

  China has announced that from Saturday, it will impose taxes on Australian wine of up to 212%, in an escalation of trade tensions between the two countries.