Новости за 08.12.2020

1. First Thing: the White House turned down 100m extra Pfizer vaccine doses  The Guardian
2. Covid-19 vaccine: First person receives Pfizer jab in UK  BBC News
3. Coronavirus vaccination begins in the UK with most vulnerable given priority - BBC News  BBC News
4. Government's Vaccines Taskforce has worked "decisively" and at "great pace" to improve UK's pandemic preparedness  GOV.UK
5. Covid-19 vaccine: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK @BBC News live -... Читать дальше...

Adam Rawnsley

History, Asia

Pyongyang's plans did not go as hoped.

Here's What You Need to Remember: The 124th’s attempt to assassinate South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee would be the most dramatic act in Kim’s roughly three year campaign to make good on the pledge to be thorn in the side of the United States and its allies.

Thirty-one shadows crept up to the fence in the cold winter night, cut it and slipped through, walking into the American side of the demilitarized zone that buffers North and South Korea. Читать дальше...

Caleb Larson

Security, Americas

The Soviet Union wanted to make the Mosin-Nagant the standard-issue infantry rifle for all Soviet soldiers. It didn’t quite happen.

Mosin-Nagant

The Mosin-Nagant’s story begins with the Russian Empire. About a decade before the turn of the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire was quite literally on the hunt for a new service rifle to replace the American-developed Berdan rifle. The rifle was widely produced, and though it benefitted from a rugged... Читать дальше...

1. Tesla stock drops after $5 billion stock offering plan  MarketWatch
2. Why Tesla Stock Is Up on Monday  Motley Fool
3. Tesla Plans $5 Billion Share Sale Amid Record Run To S&P Debut, $600 Billion Market Value  TheStreet
4. Tesla to sell $5 billion in stock 'from time to time'  CNBC Television
5. Tesla Becomes Only the Sixth Company to Top $600 Billion in Value  Barron's
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Gajender is the coach and husband of para-athlete Simran, who is training at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.

1. Huge haul of RTX 3090 graphics cards taken from warehouse  Eurogamer.net
2. Over $300,000 worth of RTX 3090s were stolen out of a factory in China  PC Gamer
3. $330,000 worth of RTX 3090 GPUs have been stolen from an MSI factory  Techradar
4. PlayStation 5 tackles heavy text-rendering test with extraordinary computational performance that is way beyond Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 and previous-gen consoles  Notebookcheck.net
5. Minecraft with RTX launches out of beta with a... Читать дальше...

‘No-one that’s with me at Christmas is allowed to listen to anything but Christmas music until after New Year,’ Carey said

Football rumours: Newcastle have been given a peek at a future that includes Jetro Willems

He was supposed to meet with Lukashenka.

The value of US electric car maker Tesla reached $608 billion on Monday for the first time, as its shares continued their epic 2020 run. The firm thus joins the exclusive club of top-five S&P 500 companies.
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BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:50 P.M.) – The Assistant President of the Iranian Judicial Council for International Affairs Ali Bagheri Keny called for Germany’s cooperation in the field of completing and removing ambiguities in the case of the late commander of the Quds Force in the Revolutionary Guard, Major General Qassem Soleimani.

Here, Sports Mole rounds up the latest transfer talk for La Liga on Tuesday, December 8.

CSE says that its investigators wrote to Wuhu Deli seeking syrups that could bypass the honey specifications as mandated by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).

Citi aims to install more women in senior positions

The first patient seriously ill with COVID-19 has received a plasma transfusion with antibodies combatting the virus, following a University of Tartu project.

(NBC News) As COVID-19 infections continue to set new records, health officials are issuing another dire warning. "You have got assume at this point, that there's so much virus going on in this country, that anybody you walk past, whether it's outside or inside, there's a good likelihood they're infected," says Dr. Peter Hotez, director [...]

Emma - who played Alice Tinker on the hit show - passed away in February 2018 after suffering a heart attack aged 53

SCOTLAND might be preparing for their first major tournament in 23 years when they play in the delayed Euro 2020 Finals in June 2021, but the quest for the Qatar 2022 World Cup begins now. In last night’s Qualifying draw, the Scots learned that they will be up against Denmark, Austria, Israel, Faroe Islands and [Read more]

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Indian authorities are investigating if organochlorines used as pesticides or in mosquito control caused the death of one person and hospitalisation of more than 400 in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.