https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/breonna-taylor-sculpture-smashed

Oakland police are investigating who might be responsible for the destruction of a sculpture honoring Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman who was killed in a police raid in her home earlier this year.

The ceramic sculpture, which was put up two weeks ago in downtown Oakland, bore the phrase "Say Her Name Breonna Taylor" on a plaque.

"It looked like someone struck it with a baseball bat or something very heavy," Leo Carson, the artist behind the sculpture, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Carson said that he felt the act was an attack on the Black Lives Matter movement and Taylor herself.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/mena/us-philanthropists-to-send-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-to-iran-reports-1.1136388

An anonymous group of US-based philanthropists plans to send 150,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to Iran in the coming weeks, Iranian media reported Monday.

Details remained scarce in the report by the semi-official Tasnim news agency, which quoted the chief of the country’s Red Crescent Society as saying he expects the vaccine created by American drug maker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech to be imported by January 19 “based on co-ordination with a group of benefactors in the US”.

Iran has struggled to stem the worst virus outbreak in the Middle East, which has infected over 1.2 million people and killed nearly 55,000.

Karim Hemmati, the Red Crescent director, said his organisation plans to receive an additional 1 million vaccine doses, which on Sunday the semiofficial Khabaronline.it news website reported would come from China. The vaccines will be offered to citizens free of charge, Mr Hemmati said.