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  A Health Ministry expert panel - whose findings have yet to be implemented - recommended on Tuesday that those eligible receive the fourth shot at least four months after receiving their third.   Israel is to offer a fourth dose of a  COVID-19  vaccine to people older than 60 or with compromised immune systems, and to health workers, as part of a drive to ramp up the shots and outpace the spread of the  Omicron  variant of the  coronavirus . A Health Ministry expert panel – whose findings have yet to be implemented – recommended on Tuesday that those eligible receive the fourth shot at least four months after receiving their third. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who has sought to drum up higher Israeli turnout for vaccines, welcomed the panel’s statement as “great news that will help us overcome the Omicron wave that is spreading around the world”. The panel further recommended that the time allotted between second and third shots be reduced to...

  A famous statue at the University of Hong Kong marking the Tiananmen Square massacre was removed late on Wednesday. The statue showed piled-up corpses to commemorate pro-democracy protesters killed by Chinese authorities in 1989. It was one of the few remaining public memorials in Hong Kong commemorating the incident, which is a highly sensitive topic in China. Its removal comes as Beijing has increasingly been cracking down on political dissent in Hong Kong. The city used to be one of few places in China that allowed public commemoration of the Tiananmen protests. IMAGE SOURCE, REUTERS Image caption, The "Pillar of Shame" being cleaned during the summer The university had initially ordered the removal of the statue - called the Pillar of Shame - in October . "The decision on the aged statue was based on external legal advice and risk assessment for the best interest of the university," it said in a statement on Thursday. "The university is also very concerne...