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Japan’s prime minister on Tuesday unveiled more than $700 billion (€578bn) in fresh stimulus to fund projects from anti-coronavirus measures to green tech, the country’s third such package this financial year. The coronavirus pandemic has wrought global economic carnage and countries across the world have announced massive cash injections. Premier Yoshihide Suga said the latest package, worth 73.6 trillion yen ($708bn) – including loan schemes and actual government spending of around 40 trillion yen ... Читать дальше...

Charities must deliver an extra 2.25 million meals this winter to stop Londoners badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic from going hungry, stark new figures reveal today.

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate retired four-star Army general Lloyd J

Alan Rough thinks that Rangers have the look of dominance which Celtic recently had.

Skip Bertman, the former LSU athletic director and baseball coach, was discharged from a Baton Rouge hospital after a nearly weeklong stay. Continue reading…

Nicosia football club Apoel have released an official statement notifying the public that they have detected at least one positive Covid-19 at the club, with the possibility of further cases in the process of being confirmed. “Apoel Podosfero Ltd wishes to inform the public that a positive Covid-19 case has...

Under the monarchy, which was abolished in 2008, Nepal was the only country in the world to have Hinduism as a state religion. Recent protests by Hindu groups in the country calling for the return of monarchy have raised alarm bells among the elected government headed by Communist leader KP Sharma Oli.

China and India are working for further de-escalation of the border standoff in eastern Ladakh and both sides will have consultations to determine specific arrangements for the next round of talks, a...

A security camera in a Pennsylvania home caught the moment a passing cyclist removed a "Black Lives Matter" sign from a garden and threw it on the ground. The footage from November 20 shows the man cycling with a small child stop outside the house in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and pull the sign from the out the ground and chuck it in the middle of the road. Stephanie Vincent, whose security camera recorded this footage, said: "The man in the video has been confirmed to be a neighbour a few doors down from this house. Читать дальше...

Sensex, Nifty end at all-time high as Reliance, TCS gain

The prospects for a $908 billion compromise that Republican and Democratic negotiators are hashing out will come down to McConnell’s decision

Japanese operator group Softbank has picked Nokia to provide the core software for its standalone 5G services.

During the second half of the 1940s, I was a schoolboy at Knowsley Road school in St Helens.
In 1988 having had a great deal of pleasure from being a Rugby League fan, much of it stood in the ground on Knowsley Road, I decided to put something back into our game by writing a novel called "One Winter" which was set against a strong Rugby League background around the time of that terrible 1962/63 winter.
Over thirty years later, I am now the author of six novels which all strongly feature the... Читать дальше...

Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister in charge of Japan’s coronavirus response, has cautioned the nation that a state of emergency may have to be imposed if ...

A second US federal judge has suspended a Trump administration executive order threatening to ban TikTok in the United States. The preliminary injunction granted late Monday by judge Carl Nichols in a district court in Washington DC comes more than a month after a similar decision in Pennsylvania. Nichols said TikTok’s lawyers had demonstrated that […]

The federal government of Nigeria has finally agreed to slash the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), known as petrol, by N5 from Monday, December 14.

Parts of Arctic Siberia saw temperature deviations of more than 20 degrees Celsius at the start of the month.

America should be "deploying disaster credentials for anybody who's trained appropriately in ICU medicine," the University of Washington professor told CNBC.

As we draw closer to Christmas there’s the inevitable question for those who have a motorsport obsessive in the household: What can I buy as a present that won’t get me the look motorsport fans give to their loved ones when they choose a generic Formula One gift item? Well, happily there are several answers, […]

At least 1.5 million people have officially died from the coronavirus pandemic, with the real number probably far higher. In the US, the worst hit country, over 1,000 people are currently dying from

Dagan-Fruchtman will go on to face Dalma Gálfi of Hungary on Tuesday afternoon in the finals of the Al Habtoor Challenge tournament.

1. 'EU wiped out our fishing!’ Furious Britons demand Brexit revenge for ‘criminal’ damage  Daily Express
2. Boris Johnson sets out his red lines at last-ditch Brexit dinner  The Guardian
3. Boris Johnson fails to secure Brexit concessions after three hours of face-to-face talks in Brussels  The Independent
4. ‘Large gaps’ remain in way of Brexit deal after PM’s talks in Brussels  Evening Standard
5. What will Boris Johnson bring back from Brussels?  The Guardian
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December 8 news about the coronavirus pandemic. A 90-year-old British grandmother became the world's first person to receive the approved coronavirus vaccine.

1. World watches as first person receives Pfizer-BioNTech COVID shot  MarketWatch
2. 55% of FDNY firefighters wouldn't get a Covid-19 vaccine if offered by the department, poll finds  CNN
3. England Vaccinates William Shakespeare (and Others) in COVID Milestone  New York Magazine
4. 'Turning Point': U.K. Giving First Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine  TIME
5. Pfizer, AstraZeneca Vaccine Combination To Be Tested Against COVID-19 In UK  Yahoo Finance
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