The Buzz | Flamethrower drone incinerates wasp nests in China

A drone has been converted into a flying flamethrower in central China in a fiery campaign to eradicate more than 100 wasp nests. Blue Sky Rescue, a volunteer group that conducts

The Buzz | Portugal immigration chief quits after Lisbon airport death

Portugal’s immigration chief quit yesterday after an outcry over the death of a Ukrainian man suspected of being tortured by officials before dying in custody at Lisbon airport. The Interior

The Buzz | UK investigates possible allergic reactions to COVID-19 shot

U.K. regulators said yesterday that people who have a “significant history’’ of allergic reactions shouldn’t receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine while they investigate two adverse reactions that occurred

The Buzz | German experts defuse WWII-era bomb found in Frankfurt

German explosives experts successfully defused and disposed of a 500-kilogram bomb in the country’s financial capital Frankfurt, which was dropped during World War II and discovered during recent construction. About 13,000

The Buzz | St. Nicholas visits Czech children while adapting to virus

Every year on Dec. 5, Nicholas appears in costume on streets across the European country, joined by a winged angel and a masked devil rattling a metal chain. The trio goes

The Buzz | Singapore becomes first country to approve sales of lab-created meat

Eat Just Inc., a maker of meat and egg substitutes, has been approved to sell its laboratory-created chicken in Singapore, which becomes the first government to allow the sale of

The Buzz | Australia hosts first group of overseas students since virus

Australia has welcomed its first group of international students to arrive since the coronavirus pandemic began, with more due to follow. A charter flight carrying 63 students from mainland China, Hong

The Buzz | Oil retreats on signs of OPEC+ discord ahead of key meeting

Oil dropped below $45 a barrel as a consensus within OPEC+ to postpone an output hike planned for January remained elusive ahead of a meeting of the cartel’s power brokers

The Buzz | China won’t hike rates soon as it exits stimulus, says state media

China is very likely to exit from some of its stimulus measures as the economy improves, but there won’t be any interest rate hike soon, a leading state newspaper said on its front page

The Buzz | Philippines targets 60 million for vaccination

Philippine officials say about 60 million Filipinos are being targeted for vaccination against the coronavirus next year at a cost of more than 73 billion pesos ($1.4 billion) to develop

The Buzz | Alibaba chairman says China’s antitrust rules ‘necessary’

The chairman and CEO of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group praised Chinese regulators yesterday in a possible attempt to repair ties after the stock market debut of its former financial services

The Buzz | Bodies of man and his slave unearthed from ashes at Pompeii

Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago

The Buzz | Biden approaches 80 million votes in historic victory

President-elect Joe Biden’s winning tally is approaching a record 80 million votes as Democratic bastions continue to count ballots and the 2020 election cracks turnout records. Biden has already set a

The Buzz | China defends food import controls to curb virus

China’s government yesterday defended anti-coronavirus controls that have disrupted imports of beef, poultry and fish from the United States, New Zealand and other trading partners. Customs officials who say the coronavirus

The Buzz | Hong Kong orders building inspections after deadly fire

Hong Kong authorities will inspect 2,500 older residential buildings after a deadly fire killed seven people in what an elected official said may have been an unlicensed restaurant operating in

The Buzz | UAE national carrier to start flying to Tel Aviv next spring

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, announced yesterday it would start operating daily nonstop flights to Tel Aviv next spring, a move that deepens ties between

The Buzz | Egypt unveils ancient coffins, statues found in Saqqara

Egyptian antiquities officials announced the discovery of at least 100 ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, and around 40 gilded statues in a vast Pharaonic necropolis south of Cairo. Colorful, sealed

The Buzz | New Yorker fires writer Jeffrey Toobin after Zoom incident

The New Yorker has fired longtime staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after he reportedly exposed himself during a Zoom conference last month. He had already been on suspension and is also

The Buzz | China, Iran join queue to scrutinize US at UN rights body

The United States faced its first review in five years at the U.N.’s main human rights body yesterday, with the detentions of migrant children and the killings of unarmed Black

The Buzz | Shanghai finds a local Covid case after months of no infections

Shanghai’s city government said it has found a single domestic case of Covid-19 after months of zero local infections. The confirmed case, a 51-year-old man, works as a porter at Shanghai

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