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2021-02-02 17:14:51 Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine 91.6% Effective in Late-Stage Trial

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine was 91.6% effective in preventing people from developing COVID-19, according to peer-reviewed results from its late-stage clinical trial published in The Lancent international medical journal on Tuesday. The results, collated by the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow that developed and tested the vaccine, were in line with efficacy data reported at earlier stages of the trial, which has been running in Moscow since September.


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2021-02-02 17:14:49 Military Tightens Grip Amid Calls for Suu Kyi to be Freed

Myanmar’s military appears to be in firm control of the country, one day after it launched a coup and detained Aung San Suu Kyi, whose whereabouts remain unclear. The military’s actions provoked widespread international condemnation, with the US president, Joe Biden, threatening sanctions and calling for governments to press for the military to release detainees. The UN security council will meet on Tuesday to discuss the matter.


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2021-02-01 17:33:52 GameStop Investors Set their Sites on Silver

The price of silver hit an a eight-year high on Monday, amid social media calls to buy the metal and emulate the trading frenzy that surrounded US games retailer GameStop last week. Shares in a handful of smaller Australian silver miners surged as small-time traders bought en masse. Coin-selling websites also reported unprecedented demand and flagged delays in delivering silver.


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2021-02-01 17:33:50 Aung San Suu Kyi Urges People to Resist Myanmar Military Coup

Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s civilian government, urged people across the country to rise up and oppose a military takeover that saw the army take control of the country Monday. Suu Kyi and other leading officials were detained earlier, the day before legislators elected in November were due to start a new parliamentary term in office.


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2021-02-01 17:33:48 AstraZeneca to Supply 9 Million More Vaccine Doses to EU

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter, the bloc’s executive arm said Sunday. The new target of 40 million doses by the end of March is still only half what the British-Swedish company had originally aimed for before it announced a shortfall due to production problems, triggering a spat between AstraZeneca and the EU last week.


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2021-02-01 17:33:46 Winter Storm Moves East, with ‘Copious Amounts’ of Snow Expected in Northeast

The winter storm system that blanketed California’s mountaintops and brought heavy rains that caused mudslides throughout the state moved through the Midwest over the weekend, dumping snow in areas and triggering advisories for nearly 100 million in the central U.S. On Sunday forecasters said the storm is moving east, where it will “pass the baton off to a new coastal storm forming near the Mid-Atlantic coast,” bringing heavy snow to large parts of the East Coast.


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2021-02-01 17:33:44 Nine Killed in Hotel Attack in Somali Capital

Nine people died after al Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgents stormed a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, battling security forces until the early hours of Monday, a police spokesman said. The attack on a hotel in the heart of the heavily fortified city comes as Somali politicians wrangle acrimoniously over delayed elections and follows the withdrawal of around 700 U.S. military personnel last month.


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2021-01-29 16:48:05 Novavax Says its Covid-19 Vaccine is 89.3 Percent Effective

An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by the biotech company Novavax is 89.3 percent effective at preventing Covid-19, the company announced Thursday. Results from Novavax’s Phase 3 trial in the United Kingdom demonstrated the vaccine candidate’s efficacy and showed that it protected against the U.K. variant of the virus. Results from another trial, in South Africa, showed that it was also effective against the variant that emerged there, although efficacy was lower.


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2021-01-29 16:48:03 Highest Price Ever for a Botticelli Painting, $92.2m, Paid at Auction

A small painting by Sandro Botticelli has been sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $92.2m, an auction record for the Renaissance master. The work, Young Man Holding a Roundel, from about 1475, depicts a nobleman holding a round painting of a saint. It is one of just three portraits in private hands by the artist best known for The Birth of Venus and Primavera.


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2021-01-29 16:48:01 New UK Visa Route to Open for up to Three Million People in Hong Kong

Just under three million people in Hong Kong will be able to apply to live, study and work in the UK when a new visa route opens on Sunday. The government offered a pathway to British citizenship for those holding British National (Overseas) status and their eligible family members last summer. It followed the imposition of a controversial new security law in Hong Kong by China.


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