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'Good chance' of Brexit trade deal within days, Ireland says

There is a good chance that the European Union and Britain could strike a Brexit trade deal within days, Ireland said on Thursday, as the two sides race to avoid a turbulent climax to the Brexit divorce in less than four weeks. The United Kingdom leaves the EU's orbit on Dec. 31, when a...

Turkey announces vaccination plan for Chinese CoronaVac

Turkey’s health minister has announced a vaccination plan starting with an experimental "inactivated vaccine" later this month to combat the COVID-19 pandemic amid a surge in infections and deaths. Fahrettin Koca had previously announced an agreement with Chinese biopharmaceutical company...

Health minister says COVID cases rising, beds won't suffice

Lebanon will not have enough hospital beds to cope with increasing COVID-19 cases, the health minister in the caretaker government warned on Thursday, saying compliance with a two-week lockdown that ended this week had been patchy. In a Tweet, Hamad Hasan said cases were on the rise and...

'All armed elements have left Iraq's Sinjar'

All armed elements have left the Sinjar district in Iraq's northern Nineveh province, the country's Joint Operations Command claimed on Thursday. "According to the agreement between the central government and the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government [KRG], the federal forces are responsible...