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Philippines, China vow cooperation for post-pandemic recovery
Foreign ministers of China and the Philippines on Saturday committed to prioritising post-pandemic recovery efforts as senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi wrapped up a week-long visit to four Southeast Asian countries. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in March imposed one of the world's longest and strictest lockdowns to contain the virus, grounding to a halt what was one of Asia's fastest growing economies before the pandemic. "As a friend of the Philippines and your closest neighbour, we will firmly stand with the people of the Philippines until the defeat of this virus," Wang said in his opening remarks at a meeting with Manila's foreign minister.
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Ozil to end Arsenal contract, move to Fenerbahce - The Athletic
Ozil, 32, has not played for Arsenal since last March and was left out of the their Premier League and Europa League squads at the start of the season. Turkish media reported earlier this month that Fenerbahce would sign the former Germany international, who has Turkish ancestry, for three and a half years.
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Esquire
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Key battles in Liverpool's Man Utd showdown
When Liverpool and Manchester United clash at Anfield on Sunday, there will be more at stake than just the usual bragging rights.
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Reuters
In visit to Central African Republic, French general says situation not same as 2013
A top French general in West Africa has dismissed calls for his country to engage more in Central African Republic (CAR) after rebels earlier this week attempted to take the capital Bangui, saying that the situation was different to a rebellion in 2013. The Central African army has been battling groups backed by former president Francois Bozize that are seeking to overturn a Dec. 27 vote in which President Faustin-Archange Touadera was declared victor despite fraud claims. Russia and Rwanda have sent troops to back the government.
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COVID-19 cases on Australian Open flights
The build-up for next month's Australian Open suffered a jolt after three coronavirus infections were reported on a flight to the year's first grand slam. Forty-seven players will now be forced into two weeks of hotel quarantine in Melbourne. Organizers say the players will not be able to leave their hotel rooms for 14 days and until they are medically cleared. That means they won't be able to practice ahead of the tournament. The decision will translate into unequal preparation for the participants. Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas took to Twitter to express his feelings. Saying he'll go from five hours of training in a bubble to being stuck in his room. Scottish former world number one Andy Murray revealed he tested positive for COVID-19 last week. But said he was in good health and still hoped to compete. American Madison Keys pulled out last week after she tested positive. Australia has agreed to accept about 1,200 players, officials and staff on 15 flights for the major sporting event that is due to begin next month.
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Indian launches COVID-19 vaccination campaign
India launched one of the world's largest vaccination campaigns through video conferencing on Saturday (January 16), aiming to bring the pandemic under control. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed health workers. "India is going to the start the world's largest vaccination drive. I congratulate the countrymen for this." Modi will not immediately take the vaccine himself as India is initially prioritizing 30 million nurses, doctors and others on the front line. About 270 million over 50's or those deemed high-risk will follow. Sanitation worker Manish Kumar became the first person in India to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the country. On the first day of vaccinations, around 100 people will be voluntarily vaccinated in each of the 3,006 centre's in India. Indians won't have a choice between the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine and a government-backed, homegrown one from Bharat Biotech whose efficacy is not known. Both are being produced locally. India has reported the highest number of coronavirus infections after the United States. The country wants to vaccinate around 300 million people with two doses in the first six to eight months of the year.
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The Telegraph
Tom Allen: I always had the sense that I was a 46-year-old trapped in a child’s life
I always had delusions of grandeur. I liked the idea of living in a big city, living a cosmopolitan, New York-y kind of life, being in a city with lots going on, visiting theatres and galleries and having a group of very erudite friends. And if it wasn’t New York, it was going to be at least Blenheim Palace, or some sort of fabulous castle somewhere in Transylvania, or one of those big houses in The Great Gatsby. Those were the dreams of my teenage self. He would be absolutely furious if he knew that I moved back in with my parents in my early 30s. We live in Bromley in the house in which I grew up. It is exactly the kind of humdrum suburbia that I wanted to escape, but the truth is that I quite like the stability of being around people I care about. As I’ve got older, I’ve placed a lower value on a city kind of trendiness and a higher value on community and the support of friends and family. My younger self, in contrast, thought of himself as a bit of a lone wolf. I was eccentric, and the other children at school really took umbrage at that. I really loved obscure role models such as Kenneth Williams and Cary Grant, and even as a small child I liked to wear a blazer and have my hair slicked back. I thought I was Noël Coward, which is an odd attitude for a child of the 1980s. I always had the sense that I was a 46-year-old trapped in a child’s life, and I felt that I should be able to go and live my grown-up life right now. And of course people were like, “No, you can’t live your life as Noël Coward. You’ve got to go and do your GCSEs.” After a time, it seemed to become more acceptable to be different. By then, I quite enjoyed the attention, so I was furious. But it was strange to have felt different from an early age. For some time, I laid it at the feet of sexuality, of being gay, yet it wasn’t anything to do with that – I wasn’t looking to find a partner when I was seven. I think it was pure eccentricity. I’ve always had a posh voice, for example, which doesn’t correlate with my family, and when people asked me why I talked like that, I’d always be like, “I don’t know.” Even so, it was frightening to be gay. There was violence perpetrated against gay people, and because of Section 28, the teachers couldn’t tell us it was fine to be gay and that there were lots of gay people. I came out when I was 21, which is quite late by today’s standards, and it felt like a big deal. I dropped it into conversation with my friends, and they carried on as normal, which was brilliant because I didn’t want to make a fuss about it. I know – can you imagine me not wanting to make a fuss?
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Serbia receives million doses of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine
A plane carrying one million doses of Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine arrived on Saturday in Serbia, making it the first European country to receive the Chinese vaccine for mass inoculation programmes. President Aleksandar Vucic was accompanied by Beijing's ambassador to the Balkan country at Belgrade's airport as containers carrying the vaccines were unloaded from an Air Serbia plane. "I would like to thank President Xi Jinping and Chinese leadership for sending us one million doses of the vaccine," Vucic, who has helped forge close ties with China in recent years, told reporters.
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Japan's suicides jump 16% in COVID-19 second wave after fall in first wave: study
Suicide rates in Japan have jumped in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among women and children, even though they fell in the first wave when the government offered generous handouts to people, a survey found. The July-October suicide rate rose 16% from the same period a year earlier, a stark reversal of the February-June decline of 14%, according to the study by researchers at Hong Kong University and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology. The early decline in suicides was affected by such factors as government subsidies, reduced working hours and school closure, the study found.
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Storyful
Polar Bears Play in Yorkshire Snow
Not everyone is a fan of January snow, but it’s been perfect conditions for a group of polar bears in South Yorkshire.Yorkshire Wildlife Park released footage of polar bears Hamish, Nobby, Sisu and Luka enjoying the cold weather on January 14.“[The polar bears] spent the day rolling about and sliding down the hills of Project Polar, one of the world’s largest reserves which is at the centre of international conservation efforts to save the species,” Yorkshire Wildlife Park said. Credit: Yorkshire Wildlife Park via Storyful
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Pakistan approves AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency use in Pakistan, the health minister said on Saturday, making it the first coronavirus vaccine to get the green light for use in the South Asian country. Pakistan, which is in the midst of a second wave of coronavirus infections, has said it would procure more than a million doses of Sinopharm's vaccine, but the Chinese vaccine has not yet been approved by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP). "DRAP granted emergency use authorisation to AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine," the country's health minister, Faisal Sultan, told Reuters.
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Indonesian Semeru volcano erupts, spews ash 5kms into sky
Indonesia has nearly 130 active volcanoes, more than any other country, and while many show high levels of activity it can be weeks or even months before an eruption. Other volcanoes, such as the Merapi volcano on the island of Java and Sinabung on Sumatra, have shown signs of activity recently.
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Malaysia's Top Glove reports COVID-19 outbreak at four factories
Malaysia's Top Glove Corp, the world's largest medical grade glove maker, said on Saturday some employees at four factories had tested positive for COVID-19 recently. While the company did not say how many tested positive or when it received the test results, the news comes after more than 5,000 foreign workers at Top Glove were infected late last year and one died in what became Malaysia's biggest cluster of the coronavirus. All employees at one of the four facilities have undergone screening and those affected are under quarantine, while a mass screening is ongoing at another on Saturday, the company said in a statement.
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Turkey says it will renew offer for joint working group on S-400s to Biden - NTV
Turkey will renew its offer to form a joint working group with the United States to look into the technical aspects of its acquisition of the Russian S-400 defence systems it acquired, once President-elect Joe Biden takes office, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was cited as saying on Friday. Cavusoglu made the comments to reporters on a flight home from Pakistan on Friday. Biden takes over from President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
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Reuters
Greece starts COVID-19 vaccinations among the elderly
Greece kicked off COVID-19 vaccinations among the elderly on Saturday, after first inoculating tens of thousands of frontline workers to fight the spread of the coronavirus. More than 75,000 healthcare workers and nursing home residents and carers have received the shot of the vaccine produced by Pfizer/BioNTech since Greece rolled out the plan along with other EU countries last month. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday that Greece aims to have 2 million people inoculated by March.
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Japan's suicides jump 16% in COVID-19 2nd wave after fall in 1st wave - study
Suicide rates in Japan have jumped in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among women and children, even though they fell in the first wave when the government offered generous handouts to people, a survey found. The July-October suicide rate rose 16% from the same period a year earlier, a stark reversal of the February-June decline of 14%, according to the study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01042-z by researchers at Hong Kong University and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology. The early decline in suicides was affected by such factors as government subsidies, reduced working hours and school closure, the study found.
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Reuters
UK airports call for 'urgent' government support after travel rules tightened
British airports called for urgent government support and an airline industry representative said the sector was heading for a "very difficult" place after Britain tightened its COVID-19 rules for international travellers on Friday. From 0400 GMT on Monday, all travellers to Britain must have a recent negative COVID-19 test and quarantine at home for 10 days on arrival, unless they test negative a second time five days after arrival. Tim Alderslade, chief executive of industry body Airlines UK, said the first three months of the year were typically a slow period for the sector, but called for plans to relax rules during the peak spring and summer period.
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The Telegraph
Mike Pompeo pushes new claim of China hiding virus origin
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed on Friday that staff at a Chinese virology laboratory became sick with a Covid-like illness in autumn 2019, months before the coronavirus spread widely from Wuhan. The day after a World Health Organization team landed in the central Chinese city on Thursday to probe the origins of the pandemic, Mr Pompeo suggested that a possible “laboratory accident” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) merited investigation. In the final days of the administration of Donald Trump, who has been widely criticised for overseeing a disastrous pandemic response in which 393,000 Americans have died, Mr Pompeo has repeatedly sought to blame Beijing for the pandemic that has now killed over two million people worldwide. In a statement claiming to reveal previously “undisclosed information”, the State Department said it “has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.” While acknowledging it had no definitive proof that the outbreak began in a lab, the State Department accused the Chinese Communist Party of “systematically” preventing an investigation into the pandemic’s origin. “The CCP has prevented independent journalists, investigators, and global health authorities from interviewing researchers at the WIV, including those who were ill in the fall of 2019,” it said. The arrival of the WHO investigative team was delayed by months of sensitive diplomatic negotiations. China has constructed an image as a global leader in the fight against the pandemic and there are concerns the secretive ruling party may try to restrict information that counters this narrative. Visa issues blocked the arrival of the team earlier this month, which a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry blamed on a “misunderstanding”. WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered a rare public rebuke expressing his frustration at the delay. Chinese officials barred two members of the team from boarding their flight to Wuhan after testing positive for antibodies during a layover in Singapore. The 13 members of the team who arrived are now under a two-week quarantine in Wuhan during which time they will interview Chinese experts by video link. After undergoing more testing, they plan to spend another two weeks interviewing researchers, hospital staff and workers at the Wuhan market to where the first infections were traced.
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Reuters
Turkey says it will renew offer for joint working group on S-400s to Biden: NTV
Turkey will renew its offer to form a joint working group with the United States to look into the technical aspects of its acquisition of the Russian S-400 defence systems it acquired, once President-elect Joe Biden takes office, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was cited as saying on Friday. Cavusoglu made the comments to reporters on a flight home from Pakistan on Friday. Biden takes over from President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
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17 St. Patrick's Day Memes That'll "Craic" You Up

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