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Passengers wait in line at the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras International [Hannah McKay/Reuters]

UK detects second COVID mutation, linked to South Africa

Health minister announces restrictions on passengers travelling from South Africa while adding new curbs across England.

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Mourners attend the burial ceremony of assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh [File: Hamed Malekpour/WANA via Reuters]

Iran 2020: A tumultuous year in review

From assassinations to a crippling pandemic, Iran experienced one of its most turbulent recent years in 2020.

President Donald Trump vetoed legislation establishing the United States military’s $740bn annual budget setting up a confrontation with Congress [Andrew Harnik/AP Photo]

Trump vetoes $740bn annual US defence bill

Hospital staff attend to a patient in the city of Manbij, northern Syria [Andrea Prada Bianchi/Al Jazeera]

Inside Syria’s former ISIL bases converted to treat COVID

Gunmen kill dozens in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz: Rights body

Gunmen kill dozens in western Ethiopia massacre: Rights body

Expect Republicans to ramp up their efforts to turn the Hunter Biden federal investigation into a full-fledged scandal [Luis M Alvarez/AP Photo]
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Greece is in a hurry to acquire the Rafale and pressed France to deliver the first squadron by May, six months ahead of the original schedule [File: Johanna Geron/Reuters]

Analysis: A turbulent 2020 spurs Greece to rearm

In 2016, the BBC had named Baloch as one of its 100 'inspirational and influential women' [Courtesy: Karima Baloch's Twitter]

Canadian police rule out ‘foul play’ in Pakistani activist death

Despite being urged to stay home, millions of Americans have already travelled ahead of the Christmas holiday [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]

I’ll be home for Christmas: US hits the road despite COVID surge

There have been two fatal police shootings of Black men in Columbus Ohio in the past month [Screenshot from Columbus.gov]

US police officer suspended after shooting an unarmed Black man


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Mourners attend the burial ceremony of assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh [File: Hamed Malekpour/WANA via Reuters]

Iran 2020: A tumultuous year in review

President Donald Trump vetoed legislation establishing the United States military’s $740bn annual budget setting up a confrontation with Congress [Andrew Harnik/AP Photo]

Trump vetoes $740bn annual US defence bill

Hospital staff attend to a patient in the city of Manbij, northern Syria [Andrea Prada Bianchi/Al Jazeera]

Inside Syria’s former ISIL bases converted to treat COVID

Gunmen kill dozens in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz: Rights body

Gunmen kill dozens in western Ethiopia massacre: Rights body

Expect Republicans to ramp up their efforts to turn the Hunter Biden federal investigation into a full-fledged scandal [Luis M Alvarez/AP Photo]
EDITOR'S ANALYSIS

The Hunter Biden cloud

Greece is in a hurry to acquire the Rafale and pressed France to deliver the first squadron by May, six months ahead of the original schedule [File: Johanna Geron/Reuters]

Analysis: A turbulent 2020 spurs Greece to rearm

In 2016, the BBC had named Baloch as one of its 100 'inspirational and influential women' [Courtesy: Karima Baloch's Twitter]

Canadian police rule out ‘foul play’ in Pakistani activist death

Despite being urged to stay home, millions of Americans have already travelled ahead of the Christmas holiday [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]

I’ll be home for Christmas: US hits the road despite COVID surge

There have been two fatal police shootings of Black men in Columbus Ohio in the past month [Screenshot from Columbus.gov]

US police officer suspended after shooting an unarmed Black man

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Morocco’s pledge to repay IMF loan suggests economic turnaround

Plan to repay the IMF points to a possible turnaround for Morocco, where tourism and exports have taken a hit this year.

People gather at Jamaa Lafna square in Marrakech, Morocco, where the gross domestic product is projected to rebound with 4.5 percent growth next year after a projected 7.2 percent contraction in 2020 [File: Youssef Boudlal/Reuters]
A doctor collects a swab sample from a man to be tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside Clinic Ajwa in Shah Alam, Malaysia December 10, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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Qatar begins COVID vaccination campaign

Qatar begins COVID vaccination campaign

Life in Singapore has returned almost to normal after strict measures, testing, tracing and quarantines brought COVID-19 under control [File: Edgar Su/Reuters]

Vaccine hesitancy stirs in nearly COVID-free Singapore

Among Trump's demands is an increase of the stimulus cheque to Americans from $600 to $2,000 [White House]

Trump demands Congress amend ‘wasteful’ COVID relief bill

Lottery shop owner Monica Cejudo holds up a first prize-winning ticket of Spain's Christmas Lottery known as 'El Gordo' or 'the fat one' [File: Vincent West/Reuters]

Quiet El Gordo: Spain draws Christmas lottery amid COVID crisis

Chile's Army says base personnel 'are already properly isolated and constantly monitored' by health authorities [File: Chilean Army via Reuters]

COVID reaches Antarctica

Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gestures after receiving his first dose of the new Moderna COVID-19 vaccine [Patrick Semansky/Pool via Reuters]

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Best of 2020: The top books by African writers

From fiction and non-fiction to essays and poetry, we bring you some of the continent’s most exciting reads from 2020.

Akwaeke Emezi (left) and Alain Mabanckou (right) [File pictures by Greg Allen/Invision/AP Photo and Eric Gaillard/Reuters]

Ex-leader Gbagbo’s party ends boycott of Ivory Coast elections

The move coincides with attempts to scale down a crisis sparked by President Ouattara’s decision to seek a third term.

Laurent Gbagbo, 75, was overthrown in 2011 after refusing to concede defeat to Ouattara in presidential elections, triggering violence that claimed about 3,000 lives [File: Jerry Lampen/Pool/Reuters]

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First batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrives in Latin America

Mexico is the first country in the region to receive a coronavirus vaccine, but several are expected to follow suit.

A soldier participating in a drill, before the start of the roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Mexico [Edgard Garrido/Reuters]

Pfizer agrees to supply 100 million more COVID vaccines to US

The $2bn deal will see the additional 100 million doses delivered to the US by July.

A Walgreens pharmacist prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a nursing home facility in Brooklyn, New York, on December 22, [Yuki Iwamura/Reuters]

Surviving COVID: The challenges facing India’s small businesses

COVID dealt a heavy blow to India’s small businesses, but some have used technology and creative thinking to survive.

Manohar Wagle, 62, owner of the Wagle Sports shop in Mumbai, says his small business was forced to respond to a sudden shift in shopping habits as customers sought to shop online due to the coronavirus pandemic [File: Tish Sanghera/Al Jazeera]

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