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Britain's AstraZeneca (AZN.L) has obtained regulatory approval to conduct part of a Phase III trial of its prospective COVID-19 vaccine in Russia, a filing at the Russian registry of clinical trials showed on Friday. The trial of this AZD1222 vaccine will involve 150 participants and will be handled by four medical facilities in St. Petersburg and Moscow, the submitting, dated Friday, revealed. Moscow has previously agreed a deal with AstraZeneca to manufacture the prospective vaccine, developed in tandem with Oxford University, at the facilities of Russian firm R-Pharm. The British drugmaker said in an announcement last week that late-stage trials of its vaccine were continuing in Britain and in Brazil, an early-stage trial was progressing in South Africa, and that further trials were proposed in the U.S., Japan and Russia. Russia is also developing several possible COVID-19 vaccines domestically, together with late-stage trials of this front-runner candidate, nicknamed'Sputni

Their full-throated condemnation of both Trump and financing of Biden will come three times before Trump's nominating conference opens on Monday and underscores the way the president has alienated some members of his own party, particularly one of the intelligence and foreign policy veterans. "Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the personality and competence to lead this nation and has engaged in corrupt behaviour that renders him unfit to serve as president," the team intends to announce in a full-page ad at The Wall Street Journal on Friday. "We've reasoned that Donald Trump has failed our country and Vice President Joe Biden must be chosen the next President of the United States," it adds. The team is just one of a range of Republican organizations opposing Trump's re-election from the Nov. 3 election. Together, they object to his alienation of U.S. allies abroad and his leadership at home, most recently his reply to the coronavirus pandemic, which

Alexei Navalny's family is asking the Russian authorities to permit them to move him by a Siberian hospital to a hospital in Berlin, after doctors refused to authorize the transfer. Navalny, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, stays in a coma because of an apparent poisoning. Navalny's wife, Yulia, has sent a letter to the Kremlin officially asking approval to evacuate him. An emergency medical plane is waiting to take the politician out of a hospital at Omsk to specialists in Germany. But doctors at Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1 say that his illness is too unstable to permit for traveling. She was traveling with the opposition figure Thursday when he suddenly fell ill. A clearly defeated Yulia Navalny talked to the media away from the hospital, calling the problem"outrageous" and saying that it's"clear authorities are trying to hide something . We demand they let's take him to doctors we hope," according to a translation by writer Olive

Northern California faces another day under siege, with the huge blazes ripping round the region still growing and still almost entirely uncontained. The most significant set of fires, called the L.N.U. Lightning Complex, has burned through over 219,000 acres. Here's what you Want to know: The fires have burnt through 500,000 acres, and are still climbing. Evacuees seeking shelter must weigh risk of this coronavirus. Smoke in the wildfires provides a new worry for doctors battling the coronavirus. California's'lightning siege' has connections to climate change. The fires have burnt through 500,000 acres, and are still climbing. Deep into its most recent fight against ballooning wildfires, Northern California faces another day under siege, with the tremendous blazes ripping round the area still growing and almost entirely uncontained. Five deaths are linked to the fires, which have pushed more than 60,000 individuals from their houses, filled the skies with thick smoke a

States have started to mobilize and submit applications to FEMA for its improved federal unemployment benefits approved by President Trump on August 8. Initial confusion regarding the inner workings of the program was partially mitigated by advice issued by FEMA, which explained the structure of this program and confirmed that nations wouldn't be required to chip in an extra $100 to procure $300 in federal funds. Most states that are seeking FEMA funding have said they will not pay jobless workers an elective state match of $100; however, three states (Montana, West Virginia and Kentucky) have indicated they'll give an additional $100, meaning their jobless workers will begin receiving $400 each week. Trump's Unemployment Benefit Extension Overview Trump's Memorandum With Congress in an impasse during the next coronavirus stimulation package, President Trump signed four executive directives on August 8, including one to provide increased unemployment benefits for 30 mil

USPS officials and business insiders state sorters are taken offline annually, though the 671 earmarked represent a substantially larger share of their agency's inventory. Of particular concern was the elimination of hundreds of mail-sorting machines. In accordance with a grievance filed by the American Postal Workers Union and acquired by The Washington Post, the Postal Service has been poised to decommission 671 of those enormous machines, about 10% of its stock, and effective at exporting 21.4 million pieces of paper mail per hour. The Postal Service, by comparison, processes up to 500 million items every day. But Postal Service officials and industry insiders say the removals were part of a long-term plan, one which reflects Americans' decreasing use for letters and rising reliance on package delivery. The removals correlated closely with population: States with more people and, hence, a larger USPS footprint had more machines removed. Alaska is the only state without the m

President Trump on Thursday tried to soften remarks he'd made hours before where he seemed to confirm he opposes Democrats' proposed increase in funds for the U.S. Postal Service since he wants to make it harder to expand voting by email, claiming his only goal in denying that the agency capital is to ensure the integrity of the Nov. 3 election. While Trump has railed against mail-in voting, falsely claiming it leads to rampant fraud, even during his regular briefing to reporters Thursday, he said he would not veto a coronavirus relief bill just because it included support to the Postal Service. But he continued to push the unsubstantiated claim that widespread voting by mail would cause an abuse of the system. "We need people to vote, but we want people to vote so when they vote it means one vote," Trump said. "I am not doing this for almost any reason," Trump said, speaking to his push to deny the agency funds. "Perhaps the other turns out to be my ad