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  • FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2020, file photo, registered nurse Chrissie Burkhiser, left, hands medication to a COVID-19 patient inside the emergency room at Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Mo. States faced a deadline on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, to place orders for the coronavirus vaccine as many reported record infections, hospitalizations and deaths, while hospitals were pushed to the breaking point — with the worst feared yet to come. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

    U.S. states submit vaccine orders as coronavirus death toll grows

  • FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2020 file photo, a general view of the Pfizer Manufacturing plant in Puurs, Belgium. The island kingdom of Bahrain says it has become the second nation in the world to grant emergency-use authorization for the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech. The state-run Bahrain News Agency made the announcement on Friday. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

    Bahrain now 2nd nation to grant Pfizer vaccine emergency use

  • This image from House Television shows the final vote, 228-164, in the House on passage of a bill to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level. The bill now goes to the Republican-controlled Senate, where it is unlikely to move forward. (House Television via AP)

    U.S. House votes to decriminalize marijuana at federal level

  • Police vehicles are parked near the scene of a shooting in The Bronx, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020 in New York. A suspect in the shooting of a state trooper in Massachusetts was killed during a shootout with U.S. marshals in New York City early Friday that left two of the officers wounded. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

    Fugitive is killed, 2 US marshals shot in Bronx gunfight

  • Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting with his Cyprus counterpart Nicos Christodoulides at the foreign ministry house in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Dec. 4, 2020. Dendias and Christodoulides were meeting to coordinate their course of action ahead of a summit of European Union leaders next week to decide on a Turkish hydrocarbons search in waters where Cyprus and Greece claim exclusive rights and which EU officials have called " provocative"and "unlawful." (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, Pool)

    Greek FM: Turkey's moves to ease tensions 'unconvincing'

  • Israelis prepare to fly to Dubai at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. The Israeli government is urging its citizens to avoid travel to the Gulf states of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, citing threats of Iranian attacks. Thursday's travel advisory comes as Iran is threatening to attack Israeli targets following the assassination of its top nuclear scientist last Friday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

    Israel urges citizens to avoid Gulf, cites Iran threat

  • A firefighter pulls a water line as he battles a mulch and pallet fire burning out of control, fanned by Santa Ana winds in and around a recycling yard near Wilson Street and Fleetwood Drive in Riverside, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Firefighters from both Riverside and San Bernardino County, along with assistance from Colton, Rialto and Riverside City Fire fought the blaze. (Will Lester/The Orange County Register via AP)

    California fire danger remains high even as winds ease

  • FILE- In this Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 file photo, a fishing vessel is docked at Kilkeel harbor in Northern Ireland. Fishing has become one of the main stumbling blocs in the Brexit negotiations for a new trade deal between the European Union and the United Kingdom. (AP Photo/David Keyton, File)

    Fishing holds key to Brexit trade deal as talks drag on

  • Hezbollah legal representative Ibrahim Mussawi, right, walks outside the justice ministry as he arrives to speak with journalists in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Lebanese Hezbollah said on Friday it is suing a former Christian lawmaker and a website affiliated with a Christian party for defamation after they accused the militant group of the massive explosion at the Beirut Port this summer. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

    Lebanon's Hezbollah suing those accusing it of port blast

  • Toharano, mother of 18 children, with two of her children, holds a bowl in the village of Ankilimarovahatsy, Madagascar, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. As a consequence of three straight years of drought, along with historic neglect by the government of the remote region as well as the COVID-19 pandemic,1.5 million people are in need of emergency food assistance, according to the U.N. World Food Program.(AP Photo/Laetitia Began)

    At least 1.5 million at severe risk of famine in Madagascar

  • Rohingya refugees are transported on a naval vessel to Bhashan Char, or floating island, in the Bay of Bengal, from Chittagong, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Authorities in Bangladesh on Friday started sending a first group of nearly more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. (AP Photo).

    First Rohingya refugees arrive at isolated Bangladesh island

  • An Indonesian soldier examines the damage at a neighborhood affected by a flood in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Torrential rains in the country's third largest city swelled rivers and flooded thousands of homes leaving a number of people killed and missing. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

    Rains in western Indonesia leave 2 dead, 2,700 homes flooded

  • The Cheesecake Factory restaurant logo is seen in this file photo. (AP Photo Damian Dovarganes)

    U.S. regulator fines The Cheesecake Factory for misleading COVID-19 disclosures

  • In this image made from UNTV video, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during the U.N. General Assembly's special session to discuss the response to COVID-19 and the best path to recovery from the pandemic, Thursday, Dec. 3,2020, at U.N. headquarters, in New York. (UNTV via AP)

    UN chief: Vaccine can't undo damage from global pandemic