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MOSCOW, January 25. /TASS/: Russian state space corporation Roscosmos carries on the talks with China and other international partners on the creation of a joint Moon base, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on his Telegram channel.

"We are holding talks with all international partners, first and foremost China, on establishing a Moon research base," he wrote.

Rogozin reminded that the Russian Moon research program is set to begin in 2021. "We plan to begin a piloted Moon program in 2028," he stressed.

MOSCOW, January 25. /TASS/: Side effects after vaccination against the novel coronavirus infection may indicate a stronger immunity to the disease, Prof. Nikolai Malyshev, a specialist in infectious diseases, said on Monday.

"It is believed that if a person develops any symptoms after vaccination, immunity to the disease, as a rule, will be stronger," he told a news conference.

He also noted that those who have had COVID-19 should get vaccinated not earlier than six to nine months after recovery.

ZAVIDOVO /Tver Region/, January 25. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the purported palace that he allegedly owns in Gelendzhik according to a certain "investigation" doesn’t belong to him or his close relatives.

"I haven’t seen this film simply due to lack of free time to look into such information, but I looked through selected video clips that my aides brought me," he said at an online meeting with university students. "Nothing of what is listed there as my property belongs or has ever belonged to me or my close relatives. Never!"

THE HAGUE, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The International Criminal Court said it had taken into custody a former Central African Republic commander of the “Seleka” faction suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In a statement, the court said Mahamat Said Abdel Kain had surrendered to the court on Sunday and had been arrested under a warrant issued under seal on Jan 7, 2019, relating to alleged crimes from 2013. A date for his initial appearance in The Hague has not yet been set.

PARIS, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct threat posed to humanity by climate change.

The mortality burden of climate-related catastrophes such as storms, flooding and heatwaves is overwhelmingly borne by developing countries.

25 Jan 2021; MEMO: A special commission in the French National Assembly approved the "charter of republican values" which was announced earlier by the nation's president as the fight against Islamist separatism, Anadolu reports.

The bill was introduced Oct. 2 by Emmanuel Macron to fight so-called "Islamist separatism."

Lisbon, Jan 25 (AP-PTI) Portugal's president was returned to office for a second term Sunday, in an election held amid a devastating COVID-19 surge that has made the European country the worst in the world for cases and deaths.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa captured 61.5% of the vote, with 98.5% of districts reporting. He had been widely expected to win.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will consider fresh sanctions on Russian individuals on Monday after more than 3,000 people were arrested across Russia on Saturday to demand the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

Lithuania’s foreign minister, arriving in Brussels for a meeting of the bloc’s 27 top diplomats, said “a change is in the air in Russia” that the bloc must support, especially after Navalny’s detention as he returned to Russia from Germany.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is setting up a climate change centre to coordinate the bank’s thinking on how to best incorporate climate issues into monetary policy and banking supervision, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Monday.

“We are now launching a new climate change centre to bring together more efficiently the different expertise and strands of work on climate across the bank,” Lagarde said in a speech.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday condemned riots across the country this weekend in which demonstrators attacked police and set fires to protest against a night-time curfew to slow the spread of the coronavirus, calling them “criminal violence”.

The police said hundreds of people had been detained after incidents that began on Saturday evening and lasted until the early hours of Monday, including some in which rioters threw rocks and in one case knives at police and burned down a COVID-19 testing station.