Top 10 world news today: China's artifical sun, Fauci's comments on COVID-19 vaccine and more
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The global coronavirus infection crossed 65 million on Friday with the United States worst-hit with the virus. Meanwhile, Russia is planning to start a mass vaccination drive soon. The US President-elect Joe Biden has asked Dr. Anthony Fauci to continue serving in the COVID-19 response team. Fauci also hit the news for calling alleging the UK of ;rushing' to approve the coronavirus vaccine, and later apologised for his statements.
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The number of infections due to the virus has crossed over 14.1 million in the United States as the CDS issued warning for Americans not to travel during Christmas.
Ties between Turkey and France, both NATO members, have been particularly tense in recent months over policy differences on Syria and the publishing of caricatures about Prophet Mohammad in France.
Pfizer Inc's CEO Albert Bourla's response was one of the highlights before the special was released before special, just days after the UK became the world’s first country to give formal authorisation to Pfizer-BioNTech’s mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine for mass rollout.
Germany has defended the Baltic Sea pipeline against opposition by EU countries namely from the Baltic states and Poland including Ukraine which are transit route countries for the pipeline.
According to a US Senate Committee report, Joe Biden's son Hunter was paid $50,000 a month to serve as the board of Burisma which is a Ukrainian natural gas company with a corrupt owner while his father was the US vice president during the Obama administration.
The 'artificial Sun' uses a powerful magnetic field to fuse hot plasma that can attain a temperature of 150 million degrees Celsius, said People's Daily. This is ten times hotter than the core of the actual Sun.
The request from Snowden came as Assange sits in a UK jail anticipating an adjudicator's decision, planned for January, on his removal to the US to confront an 18-check arraignment for supposed undercover work and connivance to submit hacking.
Australian PM Scott Morrison described a tweet by Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian as 'repugnant', 'outrageous' and 'appalling'.
'I did not mean to imply any sloppiness even though it came out that way, said Dr. Anthony Fauci after criticising UK's approval of COVID-19 vaccine.
Germany has defended the Baltic Sea pipeline against opposition by EU countries namely from the Baltic states and Poland including Ukraine which are transit route countries for the pipeline.