Monthly Archives: December 2020

Breaking news from around the world

A worker near the Pfizer facility in Purs, Belgium, on 3 December. Getty Images by Gert Vanden Vijangert / Bloomberg The first dose of Pfizer-Bioentech’s Covid-19 vaccine arrived in the UK on Thursday, a day after the country approved the vaccine for distribution, according to British media. Pfizer and Downing …

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Namibia is auctioning off 170 wild elephants

An increase in the incidence of human-elephant conflict is driving sales, the state-owned daily New Era said in an announcement. Namibian elephants are one of the many species that are at risk of extinction due to poaching, illegal wildlife trade and ecological factors. The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism …

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