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The U.S. Navy officially commissioned it new $525 million, 785-foot warship Saturday at a ceremony ahead of its departure for the western Pacific sometime this summer. Construction on the expeditionary sea base Miguel Keith took about two years and is set to be permanently foreign-based. Its first base of operations will be in the U.S. …

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban Monday announced a three-day cease-fire for the Eid-al-Fitr holiday this week marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The cease-fire would begin on either Wednesday or Thursday. The Muslim calendar follows lunar cycles and the Eid holiday depends on the sighting of the new moon. Just hours …

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BEIJING – A Chinese pharmaceutical company and BioNTech SE, the co-developer of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine, are setting up a joint venture in China with the capacity to manufacture up to 1 billion doses of the shot to protect against COVID-19. Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co. said in a stock filing on Sunday night that the …

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BERLIN – German pharmaceutical company BioNTech says it plans to create a state-of-the-art manufacturing site for its mRNA-based vaccines and other drugs in Singapore. The company, which developed the first widely used coronavirus vaccine together with U.S. partner Pfizer, said Monday that it is also establishing a regional headquarters for Southeast Asia in the city-state. …

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