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Biden facing 'competing crises' as he takes office
Perhaps the biggest is the coronavirus pandemic, which has left some 400,000 Americans dead.
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In farewell video, Melania Trump says be passionate, but not violent
The Trumps' departure has been fractious, with the president refusing for months to accept the election result due to false allegations of fraud, and declining to congratulate his successor Joe Biden.
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Vaccine drive expands as COVID probe criticises global response
Both the WHO and Beijing could have acted faster when COVID-19 first surfaced in China a year ago, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response concluded in a report.
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FBI says Capitol rioter allegedly hoped to sell Pelosi laptop to Russia
The complaint, filed late Sunday in US District Court in Washington, seeks the arrest of Riley June Williams of Pennsylvania on grounds including "violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds."
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Immune system 'remembers' coronavirus for at least 6 months: study
Researchers in the United States and Switzerland studied dozens of people who had recovered from COVID-19 and found that while their antibodies may fade over time, they maintained levels of specific memory B cells.
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WHO, China could have acted more quickly: pandemic response probe
COVID-19 was first detected in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019, before seeping beyond China's borders to wreak global havoc, costing more than two million lives and eviscerating economies.
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Meet the Bidens: America's new 'first family'
Joe Biden has made his family a major focus throughout his career, and his 2020 presidential campaign thrust them fully into the spotlight.
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Merkel condemns Navalny arrest, demands release: spokesman
Police seized Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent, at a border control post at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday.
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World facing 'catastrophic' moral failure on vaccines: WHO chief
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus denounced the "me-first" attitude of wealthy nations and also blasted vaccine manufacturers for chasing regulatory approval in rich countries rather than submitting their data to the WHO to green-light vaccine use globally.
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Indonesian medics overwhelmed by quake casualties
Doctors in hazard suits treated patients with broken limbs and other injuries at a makeshift medical centre set up outside the only one of the city's hospitals that survived relatively intact - one was flattened by the violent tremor.
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Calls abroad grow for release of Putin critic Navalny
President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic was still waiting to see his lawyer hours after being taken away at border control following a flight from Germany where he was recovering after a near-deadly poisoning attack.
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Samsung chief jailed for 2.5 years over corruption scandal
Lee Jae-yong, vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone and memory chip maker, was found guilty of bribery and embezzlement in connection with the scandal that brought down president Park Geun-hye.
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Biden team lays out plans as inauguration, Trump impeachment loom
Washington was under the watch of thousands of National Guard troops and ringed with security barriers ahead of Biden's swearing in Wednesday, in a nation still rattled by the 6 January attack on the Capitol.
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Police detain Kremlin critic Navalny on arrival in Russia
Navalny was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport less than an hour after he flew in from Germany, where he had been recovering from the poisoning with a nerve agent he says was ordered by President Vladimir Putin.
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China GDP grows at slowest pace in more than four decades in 2020
The 2.3% expansion is the lowest figure since the Chinese economy embarked on major reforms in the 1970s.
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Over 2 million people died from COVID-19 globally; stats around the world
At least 94,450,660 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these, at least 57,561,300 are now considered recovered.
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India hails 'life saving' COVID-19 vaccine rollout
India's COVID-19 vaccination drive had a successful start with more than 190,000 people receiving their first jabs and no one hospitalised for major side effects.
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Carbon monoxide leak kills five at Italy care home
"Unfortunately there are five dead, then there are also five other residents in a serious condition and two care workers, a total of seven people in hospital," police told AFP.
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Philippines says China to donate half a million COVID-19 vaccines
President Rodrigo Duterte's administration is scrambling to lock in supplies of COVID-19 vaccines for the country's 110 million people, after being criticised for being too slow off the mark in the global race to procure the drugs.
