Kathmandu and Beijing had differed over its exact height but after each sent an expedition of surveyors to the summit, they have agreed that the official height is 8,848.86 metres (29,031.69 feet), a bit more than their previous calculations.
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UNICEF Global Chief of Education, Robert Jenkins, said in a statement that 320 million children were locked out of school at the start of December.
Sources familiar to the situation, according to The Washinton Post on Tuesday, say that Pfizer is unable to provide the additional vaccine doses because other countries have already bought most of its supply.
Last week, the UK became the first country in the world to grant emergency use approval to a candidate vaccine produced by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German firm BioNTech.
Shope, 63, had represented South Africa in several countries, including Cuba, Botswana, Italy and Australia. He studied in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports Barrow is visiting Nigeria for the third time since his inauguration as Gambian President on February 19, 2017.
Francis spoke of Saturday’s attack during his weekly general audience, held virtually from his library in the Vatican because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Media reports quoted unnamed sources close to the Biden transition team as saying Adeyemo would serve under Janet Yellen, who would be nominated to lead the Treasury Department.
The Nigerian, who is a former senior international economic adviser during the Obama administration, will serve under former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who Biden plans to appoint to lead the US Treasury Department.
The widow of former Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain has been tipped to be Biden’s envoy in London once he takes over the White House in January, the Times of London reported on Saturday.
Francis was hospitalised in his native Argentina in August 1957, when he came down with a lung infection.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that this is yet another major blow to efforts by Trump to have the presidential election results invalidated in battleground states where he lost.
Lobsang Sangay, President of the Central Tibetan Administration, was invited to the White House to meet the newly appointed U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Robert Destro, on Friday, the CTA said in a press release.
Signs of the novel coronavirus show up in sewers about a week before people surge into hospitals with symptoms of the disease, which during the past nine months has killed more than 1.3 million people worldwide, including 246,000 in the U.S.
The State Elections Commission said this in a Twitter statement on Wednesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Dr. Bashir Obasekola, an Economist based in Moscow, Russia, emerged chairman in the election, which held virtually on Sunday.
However, Trump reiterated his unsubstantiated claim that Biden stole the election through rigging.
Guterres made the call in a message to 2020 World Day of the Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, commemorated annually on the third Sunday of November.
Speaking to Sudans Post, a senior government official stated that Mayardit would not agree to further actions on the contentious issue, even if the parties completed the requisite nomination process, until the planned visit of the prominent cleric in January next year.
The pledge was conveyed in a congratulatory message by the Organisation for the Advancement of Nigerians on behalf of 18 other professional, religious and socio-cultural bodies.