News update at 12:00 GMT

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French.china.org.cn | Updated on 03-01-2021-

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Here is our “Latest news” section at 12:00 GMT:

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(COVID-19) Egypt authorizes emergency use of Chinese Sinopharm vaccine (Ministry of Health)

CAIRO – Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed said on Saturday that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm has received official authorization for emergency use in Egypt.

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Ericsson CEO opposes Swedish government ban on Huawei and ZTE

STOCKHOLM – Börje Ekholm, CEO of Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson, has pressured the Swedish government to repeal a ban preventing Huawei and ZTE from participating in the construction of 5G in the country, according to the local newspaper Dagens Nyheter. In his messages to Swedish Foreign Trade Minister Anna Hallberg, Ekholm called for a review of the ban issued by the Swedish Post and Telecommunications Administration, which requires operators to remove Chinese companies from local infrastructure 5G by January 2025.

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Pakistan: 11 dead, 3 injured in shooting at mine site in Balochistan

ISLAMABAD – Eleven workers at a coal mine were killed and three others injured when unknown persons opened fire on them in the Bolan district of Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, authorities confirmed on Sunday local. Unidentified gunmen kidnapped workers working in a coal mine late on Saturday night and then killed them after taking them to another area, Bolan deputy commissioner Murad Kasi said.

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American host Larry King hospitalized after COVID-19 (press)

LOS ANGELES – Talk show host and former CNN interviewer Larry King has been diagnosed positive for COVID-19, according to CNN. Saturday’s news cites sources close to his family as saying that the 87-year-old Mr King had been undergoing intensive treatment for more than a week at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

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