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Wednesday 9 december 2020

In this Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Gideon Saar, attends the
swearing-in of the new Israeli parliament in Jerusalem.
Associated Press

Netanyahu rival bolts

party to launch

leadership challenge Emer Cooke, the head of the European Medicines Agency, at the European Medicines Agency
building in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Friday Nov. 13, 2020.
Associated Press
Saar, the leading rival of serve under Netanyahu AP Interview: EU regulator hopes for
JERUSALEM (AP) — Gideon Saar said that he could not
Netanyahu inside the ruling the prime minister's post 'multiple' vaccines
Prime Minister Benjamin any longer and would seek

Likud party, announced himself as the head of a
on Tuesday that he was new party. By MARIA CHENG an "extraordinary meeting" emergency use, which she
breaking away to form a "A change in the country's AP Medical Writer to evaluate the evidence said is typically granted for
new political party ahead leadership is needed," Saar TORONTO (AP) — The ex- on Dec. 29, although that "unlicensed" vaccines for a
of elections expected early said. "Today, Israel needs ecutive director of the Eu- date could be moved temporary period. In com-
next year. unity and stability. Netan- ropean Medicines Agency up earlier. A second shot parison, the EMA is pre-
In a statement broadcast yahu can't, and won't be said Tuesday she hopes made by Moderna Inc. paring to issue its standard
on national television, Saar able to, provide either." there might be "multiple" could be greenlighted on marketing authorization, al-
said that Netanyahu had A former aide and senior vaccines to help stop the Jan. 12. though companies are still
bungled the management Cabinet minister under coronavirus pandemic by Britain approved the Pfizer required to submit follow-
of the health and econom- Netanyahu, Saar was long the end of next year. and BioNTech vaccine last up data. Cooke said that
ic crises stemming from the considered a rising star in Emer Cooke told The As- week and started immu- there are still outstanding
coronavirus pandemic and Likud. He held the senior sociated Press in an inter- nizing people on Tuesday, questions about how long
had turned the Likud into a posts of education minister view that the EU regulator with the U.S. is expected to vaccines might provide im-
tool for personal survival at and interior minister under might approve the first CO- follow suit within days. munity, but that she hoped
a time when he is on trial Netanyahu and finished VID-19 vaccine, made by But Cooke noted that they would ultimately help
for corruption charges. first in party primaries. q Pfizer and BioNTech after those approvals were for slow the coronavirus. q

Russia to establish navy base in Sudan for at least 25 years

efforts to expand its global equipment. Russia has waged a military
reach. The new agreement is part campaign in Syria since
The deal published Tuesday of Moscow's efforts to re- September 2015, allowing
on the official portal of gov- store a regular naval pres- President Bashar Assad's
ernment documents allows ence in various parts of the government to reclaim
Russia to simultaneously globe. The Russian military control over most of the
keep up to four navy ships, footprint withered after country following a devas-
including nuclear-powered the 1991 Soviet collapse tating civil war.
ones, in Port Sudan on the amid economic woes and In 2017, Moscow struck
Red Sea. The agreement military funding shortages, a deal with Assad to ex-
lasts for 25 years and could but President Vladimir Pu- tend its lease on Tartus for
be automatically extended tin has moved steadily to 49 years. After signing the
for 10-year periods if none rebuild the nation's military agreement that allows Rus-
of the parties objects to it. might amid tensions with sia to keep up to 11 war-
The document states that the West. ships there, it has moved to
the Russian navy base The Russian navy already modernize and expand the
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting via video
conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, should "help strengthen has established a major facility.
Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. peace and stability in the presence in the Mediter- As part of Putin's efforts to
Associated Press region" and isn't directed ranean, thanks to a naval beef up the military, the
against any third parties. In base in the Syrian port of Russian navy in recent
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV with Sudan to establish a exchange for Sudan's per- Tartus, currently the only years has revived the So-
Associated Press navy base in the African mission to set up the base, such facility that Russia has viet-era practice of con-
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia nation for at least a quarter Russia will provide Sudan outside the former Soviet stantly rotating its warships
has signed an agreement century, part of Moscow's with weapons and military Union. in the Mediterranean.q