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WASHINGTON, Aug 16 Reuters - Alison Toni felt lucky to get Sinovac s COVID-19 vaccine in Chile earlier this year. A month later, she was in Minnesota getting vaccinated again. People shop at a grocery store enforcing the wearing of m stanley cups asks in Los Angeles on July 23, 2021. AFP Toni, an American livin stanley thermos g in Chile, was visiting her parents in Minneapolis in April when she got her first Pfizer shot at a CVS pharmacy. She traveled back for the second dose in June. She did not disclose being previously vaccinated. They d stanley becher idn t ask, and I didn t tell, said Toni, 55. She took that step after reading that China s Sinovac vaccine had a lower efficacy than the Pfizer Inc shot, developed with German partner BioNTech, and the Moderna Inc shot, both widely available in the United States. She also consulted with her doctor beforehand. Toni is among the group of people coming from abroad who have been vaccinated a second time, or plan to do so, in the United States. Their reasons range from concerns that the vaccines immediately available to them were not effective enough, fears that they require extra protection against the fast-spreading Delta variant, or a need to meet specific requirements for work or travel. Some are seeking medical advice, others are relying on their own research. A few countries are also beginning to offer a third booster dose to their citizens based on evidence that the initial protection from vaccines wanes over time, or that an extra shot may help preve Bnll Secretary of state Rex Tillerson pitches for greater cooperation between India and US ahead of visit
Iranians responded with anger and mockery on Saturday to the bel stanley thermobecher licose criticism of their government by US President Donald Trump who threatened to tear up a landmark nuclear deal. Iranian worshippers walk past a painting of the stanley cup usa late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and Basij paramilitary force members, at the conclusion of a Friday praye stanley cup r ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Friday, October 13. AP Photo Trumps use of the phrase Arabian Gulf rather than Persian Gulf particularly hit a nerve in a country with a fierce nationalistic streak. Everyone knew Trumps friendship was for sale to the highest bidder. We now know that his geography is too, wrote foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Twitter, referring to the US alliance with Irans regional rival Saudi Arabia. Despite pressure from the Arab Gulf monarchies, most international bodies still use Persian Gulf as the conventional name for the regions waterway, and many Iranians shared photos of US veterans medals and graves referring to the Persian Gulf conflict of the 1990s. In his White House speech on Friday evening, Trump reeled off a list of grievances committed by the Iranian dictatorship, its sponsorship of terrorism, and its continuing aggression in the Middle East and all around the world. He also threatened to terminate the 2015 nuclear deal signed between Iran and six world powers unless Congress passed stringent new sanctions. But as Iranians headed to their offices on Saturday -- the fir