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According to the Biden-Harris transition team, Harris was vaccinated on Tuesday by Patricia Cummings, a clinical nurse manager at the United Medical Center.

"Swatting" is a term used to describe a hoax call made to emergency services, typically reporting an immediate threat to human life, to draw a response from law enforcement and the SWAT team to a specific location.

In a statement on Tuesday, Saad Al-Otaibi, the DGCA spokesman, said the resumption of flights will begin on Saturday at 4 p.m., Xinhua news agency reported.

The earthquake jolted Petrinja, a small city about 50 km southeast of the Croatian capital Zagreb, at 12.19 p.m. on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency quoted the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) as saying.

It comes over a week before Pence is scheduled to preside over a joint session of Congress where the Electoral College votes for Biden and President Donald Trump will be tallied

In a war-weary Yemen, a comedy play showcasing the country's hardships, was an instant hit

Demand for caviar remains high, not just from paying customers, but sturgeon rustlers too

China views Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to one day bring the self-ruled democratic island back into the fold, by force if necessary.

Firefighters with special equipment were later called in and managed to lift the dead swan and its surviving companion away from the area.

December's figure, roughly equivalent to over 1.6 Americans lost to the virus every minute, marked a significant surge from that in the entire month of November which registered 36,964 fatalities

The Sindh Health Department took samples of 12 UK returnees for genotyping out of which six were found to be Covid-19 positive, Geo News reported.

German national daily Die Welt said that researchers at Hannover Medical School detected the new variant in samples of an elderly patient who teted positive around November and later died

I welcomed the importance of the UK/EU Agreement as a new starting point for our relationship, between sovereign equals, British Pm tweeted

The Spanish branch of Pfizer informed Madrid on Sunday night of the delay in shipments to the eight nations due to a "problem in the loading and shipment process" at its plant in Belgium, the health ministry said in a statement.

After a year of staying home, travellers look forward to embark on long-haul journeys

Human rights activists say the practice has accelerated during lockdowns, when girls are out of school and more visible, bride traffickers are more active on the Internet and families are more in debt

This is a decision that strengthened the American policy on Tibet and reaffirmed the government's steadfast support for the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration

Criminals are using email, websites, phone calls, text messages and even fax messages for their scams

The developing cocoa industry is earning better incomes for farmers

The 2,000-year-old bar frozen in Pompeii ash gives clues on Roman snacking habits

Wars and insurgencies endanger vaccinators in poor nations across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America

Besides England, lockdowns were also introduced in Scotland and Northern Ireland, while restrictions that were eased for Christmas Day in Wales were re-imposed on Saturday

Hong Kong-based Elise Ip is helping families connect through her project 'Send Flowers With You'

The first French case -- found in a citizen living in Britain who arrived from London on December 19 -- is asymptomatic and self-isolating at home