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European shares rose after a shaky start and the dollar edged up on Wednesday, while the 10year U.S. Treasury yield fell from 10month highs, helped by policymakers pushing back against talk of the Fed tapering its support.

The House is expected to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his encouragement of supporters who violently stormed the US Capitol, a vote that would make him the first American president to be impeached twice.

Canada has ordered an additional 20 million doses of Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday after provinces complained about inadequate supplies.

Following are reactions to the death of American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson:

The Trump administration plans to release COVID19 vaccine doses it has been holding back for second shots and will urge states to offer them to all Americans over age 65, the United States' top health official said on Tuesday.

Adelson, who headed the world’s largest casino company, Las Vegas Sands, died on Monday night from complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Las Vegas Sands said in a statement on Tuesday.

Austria said on Tuesday it has identified a new cluster of 17 COVID19 cases, a mainly British group on a ski teacher training course, despite the country being on lockdown and having banned flights from Britain over fears of a new coronavirus variant.

The European Union said on Tuesday it had concluded exploratory talks with the French drugmaker Valneva for the supply of up to 60 million doses of its COVID19 vaccine candidate.

Nigeria is working on what type and quantity of COVID19 vaccines to procure and will make financial provision for them in its 2021 budget, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said on Tuesday.

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell 10.3% in 2020, the largest drop in emissions in the postWorld War II era, as the coronavirus crippled the economy, according to a report released Tuesday by the Rhodium Group.

After days out of sight following the Capitol siege, President Donald Trump travels to Texas to trumpet one of the pillars of his presidency: his campaign against illegal immigration.

Xi, 67, who has become China's most powerful leader after Mao Zedong since he came to power in 2012 was addressing the leading cadre of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday. Founded in 1921 by Mao, the CPC took over power in 1949.

Palestine's health ministry has registered the main Russian vaccine against COVID19, known as Sputnik V, for domestic use, Russia's sovereign wealth fund said on Monday.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, said he expects U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden to extend the last major nuclear arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington when it expires next month, but that the two countries have much more to do.

Schools in Madrid were closed on Monday while most trains and flights resumed as the Spanish capital tried to return to some form of normalcy after a huge snow storm on the weekend. 

The next few weeks of the COVID19 pandemic will be the worst as the new highly infectious variants of the virus rampage across the country, the British government’s chief medical adviser said on Monday.