Less than 0.1% of vaccinated people caught coronavirus, and far fewer became ill.
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Israel's vaccine rollout linked to infection fall
Less than 0.1% of vaccinated people caught coronavirus, and far fewer became ill.
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Israel's vaccine rollout linked to infection fall
Less than 0.1% of vaccinated people caught coronavirus, and far fewer became ill.
Thousands break rules for rabbi's funeral in Israel
Deputy Prime Minister Benny Gantz has criticised "unequal enforcement" of rules over the gathering.
Israel to transfer 5,000 vaccines to Palestinians
It is the first such transfer, amid disagreement over who is responsible for inoculations.
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'Hospitals can't take our Covid patients'
Lebanon's hospitals are turning away patients as the country buckles under Covid and economic collapse.
UAE to offer citizenship to 'talented' foreigners
The Gulf state relies on its immigrant population but does not usually grant citizenship rights.
Lebanon lockdown unrest targets government office
More than 100 people are reportedly injured in the city of Tripoli in a fourth night of protests.
Small bomb detonates near Israeli embassy in Delhi
No-one was injured but one Israeli official says the blast will be treated as a terrorist incident.
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Israel's vaccine rollout linked to infection fall
Less than 0.1% of vaccinated people caught coronavirus, and far fewer became ill.
Thousands break rules for rabbi's funeral in Israel
Deputy Prime Minister Benny Gantz has criticised "unequal enforcement" of rules over the gathering.
Israel to transfer 5,000 vaccines to Palestinians
It is the first such transfer, amid disagreement over who is responsible for inoculations.
Video 2 minutes 18 seconds
'Hospitals can't take our Covid patients'
Lebanon's hospitals are turning away patients as the country buckles under Covid and economic collapse.
UAE to offer citizenship to 'talented' foreigners
The Gulf state relies on its immigrant population but does not usually grant citizenship rights.
Lebanon lockdown unrest targets government office
More than 100 people are reportedly injured in the city of Tripoli in a fourth night of protests.
Small bomb detonates near Israeli embassy in Delhi
No-one was injured but one Israeli official says the blast will be treated as a terrorist incident.
Thousands break rules for rabbi's funeral in Israel
Deputy Prime Minister Benny Gantz has criticised "unequal enforcement" of rules over the gathering.
Israel to transfer 5,000 vaccines to Palestinians
It is the first such transfer, amid disagreement over who is responsible for inoculations.
Video 2 minutes 18 seconds
'Hospitals can't take our Covid patients'
Lebanon's hospitals are turning away patients as the country buckles under Covid and economic collapse.
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Algeria seeks to make Russia's Covid vaccine
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Copyright: ReutersImage caption: Algeria started a vaccination campaign on Saturday Algeria has begun discussions to have Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine made in the country, the prime minister's office has said.
"The two parties agreed to start contacts between the relevant bodies with a view to build cooperation in the field of making the Spoutnik V vaccine in Algeria," said a statement from Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad after he met Russian ambassador to Algiers Igor Baliaev.
The government did not give a manufacturing timeline, nor did it specify the quantities of doses to be produced.
Algeria received its first 500,000 doses of Sputnik V on Friday last week and started a vaccination campaign on Saturday in the province of Blida.
The authorities are expecting a second shipment of China’s Sinopharm vaccine "in the coming days", according to the Communication Minister Ammar Belhimer.
An AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine shipment that was ordered by the government would be delivered next month, according to the minister.
The Algerian government had announced a budget of €122m ($147m;£107m) to secure vaccines and to immunise the population of 40 million.
Meanwhile, President Abdelamdjid Tebboune is being treated in Germany for a Covid-19 complication.
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Libya delegates meet to pick interim premier
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Delegates from Libya at UN-sponsored talks in Geneva are beginning the process of choosing a temporary administration that would run the country until elections in December.
They will have until Friday to select a prime minister and a three-member council. Forty-five candidates have put themselves forward.
They're drawn from the two rival administrations that have been vying for power in the divided country - one in the capital Tripoli, and the other based in the east.
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Video caption: Lebanon ambulance driver: 'Hospitals can't take our Covid patients' Hospitals in Lebanon are having to turn away patients as the country buckles under Covid and economic collapse.
Cannabis-smoking Tunisians 'sentenced to 30 years'
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Copyright: Getty ImagesImage caption: It is illegal to smoke cannabis in Tunisia Three young Tunisian men are reported to have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for smoking cannabis at a football stadium.
A spokesperson at the regional court that delivered the sentence said that it was based on three separate laws - which include 10 years for drug consumers and traffickers and 20 years for taking drugs in a public place.
An MP has called for a presidential pardon to be issued for the three men.
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