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Robbers pull off multimillion-dollar copper heist in Chilean port

Robbers pull off multimillion-dollar copper heist in Chilean port

CHILEAN authorities said they were investigating a violent heist in Chile's main seaport where thieves stole several shipping containers filled with copper belonging to state-owned giant Codelco. Juan Carlos Catalan, the local prosecutor, said in a statement that ten armed men entered the San Antonio port early on Tuesday morning, attacked workers and stole 13 containers, 12 of which had copper. "There was one guard and four workers that (the assailants)tied up and beat and left locked up," Catalan said, adding that workers alerted authorities after they freed themselves. Catalan said authorities are investigating and reviewing security footage but have…
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BioNTech to ship mRNA vaccine factory kits to Africa

BioNTech to ship mRNA vaccine factory kits to Africa

LUDWIG BURGER GERMANY'S BioNTech has developed a vaccine factory-made from shipping containers that it plans to ship to Africa as assembly kits to ease what the World Health Organization has described as huge disparities in global COVID-19 vaccine access. The factory prototype will be instrumental in helping the biotech firm deliver on a pledge made last year to Rwanda, South Africa, Senegal and the African Union to secure mRNA vaccine production on the continent, where inoculation rates have fallen far behind other parts of the world. Work on the first mRNA manufacturing facility in the African Union is due to…
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