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Ethiopia's military said on Sunday it had killed 15 members of the Tigray region's former ruling party and captured eight others, according to staterun TV.

Nurses, doctors, physios and other NHS staff working nearby are also being jabbed at the centres, along with social care and care home workers.

The Spanish government will send convoys carrying the COVID19 vaccine and food supplies on Sunday to areas cut off by Storm Filomena which brought the heaviest snowfall in decades across central Spain and killed four people.

Brian Sicknick’s family said he 'wanted to be a police officer his entire life' and had joined the Guard “as a means to that end.”

Jacob Anthony Chansley, who featured prominently on social media wearing horns, a fur pelt, face paint and brandishing a spear adorned with the US flag, turned himself in to police, the Department of Justice said.

The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Gujranwala issued an arrest warrant against Azhar in the terror financing case instituted by the CTD in the previous hearing on Thursday.

China will provide COVID19 vaccines free of charge once they become available to the general public, government authorities said on Saturday.

The CDC has said healthcare workers and nursing home residents should have priority for vaccines, to be followed by people over 75 and essential workers.

South Korean researchers say they have designed an inflatable "negative pressure" ward for isolating and treating patients with infectious diseases like COVID19, after the pandemic exposed shortages of such beds around the world.

Portugal reported record increases in the number of COVID19 infections and the death toll on Friday, a day after the prime minister warned the country may need to go into a new lockdown next week if contagion continues to surge.

The COVID19 reproduction "R" number in the UK is estimated between 1.01.4, the health ministry said on Friday, similar to the most recent estimated figure before Christmas.

Nobody was hurt in the incident although several cars fell into the sinkhole measuring about 500 square metres (5,400 square feet), firefighters said.

A COVID19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech was 78% effective in a latestage Brazilian trial and entirely prevented severe cases, researchers said on Thursday, boosting Chinese efforts to catch up with Western vaccine makers.

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley said that proTrump demonstrators who invaded the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday also ransacked his office and stole a laptop.

Mark Zuckerberg said on his Facebook page that the ban, which was announced Wednesday for 24 hours, was extended because of Trump's 'use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government'.

Natural catastrophes around the world resulted in $210 billion in damage in 2020, with the United States especially hard hit by hurricanes and wildfires, a top insurer said on Thursday.