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Putin receives Covid-19 vaccination
Russian President Vladimir Putin received one of the country's three domestic vaccines against the coronavirus, the Kremlin announced.
Hungary approves China's CanSino vaccine for emergency use
Hungary has granted China's CanSino vaccine emergency use authorisation, making it the second China-developed Covid-19 vaccine approved in the...
Zimbabwean prez to get his first shot of vaccine this week
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa will get his first shot of China's Sinovac vaccine on Wednesday in the resort town of Victoria Falls where he...
Biden calls for assault weapons ban after Colorado shooting
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on lawmakers to impose a ban on assault weapons in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado,...
Decolonising the hunt for dinosaurs, other fossils
In 2019, Mohamad Bazzi, a doctoral student at Uppsala University in Sweden, launched an expedition to Tunisia in search of fossils.
Transparency key to battling vax hesitancy
As the AstraZeneca drama played out in the open, public health advocates watched with horror, fearing the legitimacy of global vaccine development was...
Pre-embryos made in lab to spur debates
For the first time, scientists have used human cells to make structures that mimic the earliest stages of development, which they say will pave the...
10 killed in US mass shooting highlighting scourge of gun violence
Ten people have been killed in a mass shooting in Boulder in Colorado state putting the focus on gun violence, the intractable scourge of the US that...