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[ad_1] MOSCOW: George Blake, who died in Russia on Saturday (December 26) at the age of 98, was the latest in a line of British spies whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliated the intelligence establishment when he was discovered in the heyday. of the Cold War. Britain says …

[ad_1] PARIS: The European Union began launching a vaccine on Saturday (December 26), even as the bloc countries were forced back into lockdown by a new strain of the virus, believed to be more infectious, which continues to spread from Great Britain. The pandemic has claimed more than 1.7 million …

[ad_1] BENGALURÚ (REUTERS) – The post-Brexit trade deal reached by the UK and the European Union goes beyond the EU’s so-called “Canada-style” trade deal, the BBC said on Friday (December 25), citing what which he said was a complete copy of the agreement. The 1,246-page document includes some 800 pages …

[ad_1] BEIJING: Leaders of the ruling Communist Party of China congratulated themselves on their “extremely extraordinary” success in handling the COVID-19 outbreak domestically, ahead of a World Health Organization investigation into the origins of the disease. China faced a barrage of criticism at home and abroad for its initial handling …

[ad_1] BENGALURÚ (REUTERS) – An Air Canada Boeing Co 737-8 Max en route between Arizona and Montreal with three crew members on board suffered an engine problem that forced the crew to divert the aircraft to Tucson, Arizona, said the Canadian airline in a statement. Statement emailed on Friday (December …

[ad_1] LONDON (REUTERS) – China will overtake the United States to become the world’s largest economy by 2028, five years earlier than previously estimated due to the two countries’ contrasting recoveries from the Covid-19 pandemic, an expert group said. “For some time, a general theme of the global economy has …

[ad_1] A doctor in Boston with a shellfish allergy developed a severe allergic reaction after receiving the Moderna coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, the New York Times reported Friday, citing the doctor. Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a geriatric oncology fellow at Boston Medical Center, said he had a severe reaction almost immediately …

[ad_1] Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp sees no reason why Mohamed Salah wants to leave the Premier League champion, but says he will not keep the Egyptian striker at the club against his will. Salah told Spanish newspaper AS in an interview this month that he admired Real Madrid and Barcelona, …

[ad_1] BERLIN: It was during breakfast on the cold morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, “we have to fire the starting shot on this.” Sahin “had concluded from a post describing coronavirus cases in Wuhan … that there was a high probability that …

[ad_1] PARIS: Mauricio Pochettino is said to be Thomas Tuchel’s successor as Paris Saint-Germain coach and the number one item in the Argentine’s inbox will be February’s date with Barcelona. Tuchel reportedly received his marching orders on Thursday, four months after guiding the Qatari-backed club to its first Champions League …