
As the US was preparing for the final approval of Covid-19 vaccines and distribution, the politics behind it reached a new level with President Donald Trump threatening to withhold them from New York state because Governor Andrew Cuomo had been a sceptic of his plan to speed up their availability....
Serum Institute of India (SII) is ramping up production of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, aiming to have 100 million doses ready by December for a vaccination drive that could begin across India that same month, Bloomberg reported....

United States President Donald Trump has hinted that he may accept defeat by Joe Biden as media declared the Democrat the winner in Georgia while the counting was still going on, solidifying his lead in the electoral college....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday paid tributes to country's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 131st birth anniversary, which is celebrated as the Children's day....

People in Tamil Nadu celebrated Diwali with traditional fervour having special sesame oil baths, wearing new clothes and bursting crackers on Saturday....
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FIA Diwali Illumination at the Empire State Building...
French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly announced on Friday that the country's forces have killed Bah ag Moussa, a military leader of Al Qaeda's North Africa wing, in Mali. ...

Former US president Barack Obama's new book 'A Promised Land' lands a sharp left hook on Rahul Gandhi's "nervous, uninformed quality" while directing warm, not-so-political praise at Rahul's mother Sonia Gandhi, according to a book review Thursday in the New York Times....

US poll officials have claimed that the recently-concluded 2020 presidential election was the "most secure in American history", and rejected President Donald Trump's ballot fraud allegations, the media reported on Friday. ...