December 2020
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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received the coronavirus vaccine in Delaware, becoming the latest major political figure worldwide to be vaccinated. Biden’s transition reported earlier that the President-elect and incoming first lady Jill Biden would receive their first doses of the coronavirus vaccine publicly on Monday. Incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki briefed…
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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, says the Academic Activities in Nigeria Universities will resume January. He says the negotiations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government had reached 98 percent, adding that it remains only two percent to be completed He spoke Monday in Alor, Idemili…
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Russia and China have common interests in many fields, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday during his annual press conference. “Concerning China, we have overlapping interests in many areas,” Putin said, adding that these mutual interests have contributed to Russia’s positive relations with China. Commenting on ties with leaders of other countries, Putin said…
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The winter season comes with huge challenges for horses and their owners. Taking care of the animals in cold weather conditions is certainly a hard job; for example, horses need to drink warm water (heated between 45 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit) and feed extra hay. On the part of horse owners, it is highly important…
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One afternoon, I went for a walk with a friend in the suburbs. Suddenly, an old man in tattered clothes approached with a bag of green vegetables in his hand. The sales of those vegetables are very poor, the leaves were dehydrated and yellow, and there were holes in them that are bitten by insects.…
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A certain company has a tradition of holding a party and a lottery every Christmas Eve. The rules of the lottery draw are as follows: each employee pays ten dollars as a fund. There are three hundred people in the company. In other words, a total of three thousand dollars can be raised. The winner…
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In a funny coincidence, a doppelgänger of Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou was recently spotted making Chinese-style egg pancakes in China, paralleling the lyrics of his 2018 song Waiting for you. The romantic song alludes to a protagonist who is waiting for his love, and in a futile attempt to win her over, decides to learn how to make…
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The internet, a computer and a wooden stick prepared by her father opened windows for Zhang Lulu, a physically challenged woman in Zhaobao, Luoyang city, Henan province. Holding the stick in her mouth to tap the keyboard, the 27-year-old has written 12 novels totaling 2 million words over the past decade. One of the novels…
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Key figure in Donald Trump’s impeachment saga was aware aware of Burisma corruption. Findings have confirmed that the Democrats’ star witnesses in their sham impeachment of President Trump – former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch – seemed to have been shading the truth. Are you at all surprised? We just received 210 pages of records…
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People worldwide are living longer, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Today, for the first time in history, most people can expect to live into their sixties and beyond. By 2050, the world’s population aged 60 years and older is expected to total 2 billion, up from 900 million in 2015. Today, 125 million people…
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Traveling in Mexico is safe during the coronavirus pandemic if one follows sanitary protocols established by the destination where one travels, says the United States ambassador to Mexico. Christopher Landau told the newspaper El Financiero Wednesday during a culture and tourism event that he’s seen how seriously restaurants, hotels and other tourism-related businesses take Covid safety protocols…
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The United States announced sanctions Thursday against 17 government officials in China and other foreign countries for human rights violations. Sanctions were also placed against the immediate family members of the officials. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement that Chief Huang Yuanxiong of the Xiamen Public Security Bureau Wucun Police Station…
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Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Thursday informed that a new genus of malaria called ‘plasmodium oval’ has been detected in the state. The disease was detected in a soldier who travelled from Sudan. He was being treated at the district hospital in Kannur. “Plasmodium oval, a new genus of malaria, has been detected in…
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When Britons voted for Brexit in 2016, they were promised a smooth transition to a new economic relationship with the European Union. Now the two sides are hurtling toward a tumultuous split that threatens billions worth of trade and hundreds of thousands of jobs. An outcome almost no one wants looks increasingly hard to avoid,…
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Ahead of the two Senate runoff elections in the state, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday slammed China for stealing research and intellectual property from Chinese students studying in American colleges. During a speech at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta, Pompeo termed China’s Communist Party as the “central threat of our time”, while…
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Neymar said the idea of leaving Paris Saint-Germain has not crossed his mind after scoring a hat-trick in the 5-1 Champions League win over Istanbul Basaksehir on Wednesday. The Brazilian’s treble helped PSG qualify for the last 16 as group winners. His contract in Paris is up in 2022 and he’s yet to sign a new…
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