In the Chilean capital, protesters set fire to two churches, looted a store and clashed with police a week before a referendum on whether to erode a one-sentence constitution. In television images from Santiago on Sunday, masked protesters were shooting from their smartphones and excited as the spire of the …
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Melbourne, Australia Australia After more than 100 days under one of the world’s longest and toughest lockdowns, residents of Australia, Australia’s second-largest city, are struggling to make ends meet – but these conditions reflect the global division on the need for lockdowns to fight the Covid-19 epidemic. Since July, Melbourne …
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U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention More than 1,000 current and former officials of the elite disease-fighting program at the centers have signed an open letter expressing frustration over the country’s public health response to the Kovid-19 epidemic and calling on the federal agency to do so. To play …
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The soda giant’s first diet cola was a culture icon in the 1970s and early ’80s, then pale after the launch of Diet Coke. Although the market share of Tab Tab became almost non-existent, the beverage company continued the brand for decades to please a fairly dedicated base known as …
Read More »Pfizer will be able to apply for emergency use of the Covid-19 vaccine in late November
Pfizer Inc. P.F.E. -0.84% Said it may be ready to apply for emergency-use authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine by the end of November, believing that in late-stage human trials will yield positive efficacy and safety data, the first time it or any other leading Western vaccine developer This kind of …
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