BBC News - Biden’s inner circle get key cabinet posts as John Kerry named climate tsar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55046714
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55046714
BBC News
Biden cabinet: John Kerry named climate envoy as inner circle get key posts
Joe Biden is nominating one of the leading architects of the Paris climate agreement as his climate envoy.
The World View
https://twitter.com/RojavaNetwork/status/1331196671280209922?s=19
"This is all, certainly very clever stuff. What, as they say, could possibly go wrong?
The first thing to say is that, with something this new, we don’t really know. It could be that it is absolutely 100 percent safe. We are told that none of the mRNA can get into the nucleus of the cell, where it could become incorporated into the DNA. I hope so. Could it trigger an immune cascade? I hope not.
I know that the researchers will be looking very, very, closely at the novel safety issues that could emerge. If they are not, they damned well should be. However, the timelines here are very short. It normally takes many years to create safe and effective vaccines. Here is it happening in, effectively, weeks."
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/507587-covid19-vaccine-safe-coronavirus/
The first thing to say is that, with something this new, we don’t really know. It could be that it is absolutely 100 percent safe. We are told that none of the mRNA can get into the nucleus of the cell, where it could become incorporated into the DNA. I hope so. Could it trigger an immune cascade? I hope not.
I know that the researchers will be looking very, very, closely at the novel safety issues that could emerge. If they are not, they damned well should be. However, the timelines here are very short. It normally takes many years to create safe and effective vaccines. Here is it happening in, effectively, weeks."
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/507587-covid19-vaccine-safe-coronavirus/
RT
As a doctor, people ask me if it’s safe to take a new Covid vaccine. Given that criticism is risky, here’s my very careful answer
The type of vaccine being developed against the virus has never – outside of Ebola – been used before. The trials have been extremely rushed & involved testing only small numbers. What could possibly go wrong?
BBC News - Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated near Tehran
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-55105934
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-55105934
BBC News
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran
Iran's foreign minister has condemned the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh "as an act of state terror".
BBC News - China becomes second nation to plant flag on the Moon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55192692
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55192692
BBC News
China becomes second nation to plant flag on the Moon
It becomes the second nation to unfurl its banner on the lunar surface, more than 50 years after the US.
BBC News - US election: Trump tells Georgia election official to 'find' votes to overturn Biden win
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55524838
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55524838
BBC News
US election: Trump tells Georgia election official to 'find' votes to overturn Biden win
The US president pressures Brad Raffensperger in an audio recording released by the Washington Post.
https://www.rt.com/news/511456-assange-extradition-hearing-verdict-announced/
Assange WON’T be extradited to US on spying charges in shock decision at London’s Old Bailey
Assange WON’T be extradited to US on spying charges in shock decision at London’s Old Bailey
RT
Assange WON’T be extradited to US on spying charges in shock decision at London’s Old Bailey
Jubilant scenes have greeted Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges at London's Old Bailey courthouse.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55619279
US President-elect Joe Biden has chosen William Burns, who served for three decades as a diplomat, to be his CIA director.
Mr Burns led the Obama administration's negotiations with Iran to reach a landmark nuclear deal in 2015. Before that he served as ambassador to Russia.
He is currently the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international think-tank.
If confirmed by the Senate, he would be the first career diplomat in the post.
US President-elect Joe Biden has chosen William Burns, who served for three decades as a diplomat, to be his CIA director.
Mr Burns led the Obama administration's negotiations with Iran to reach a landmark nuclear deal in 2015. Before that he served as ambassador to Russia.
He is currently the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international think-tank.
If confirmed by the Senate, he would be the first career diplomat in the post.
BBC News
William Burns: Biden nominates veteran diplomat as CIA director
William Burns, who served for three decades as a diplomat, was key in reaching the Iran nuclear deal.