In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address the raging coronavirus pandemic, his incoming chief of staff said Saturday. The opening salvo would herald a 10-day blitz of executive actions as Biden seeks to act […]
Continue reading …Not since Woodrow Wilson was in office during the 1918 flu pandemic – which killed about 675,000 in this country and 50 million worldwide – had a president overseen the loss of so many American lives. Besides being the first president to get impeached twice, Donald Trump will have a stain on his legacy with arguably longer-lasting consequences: He’s […]
Continue reading …Ice cream cone (illustrative)(photo credit: ING IMAGE/ASAP) Ice cream produced by Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Company, was found to be contaminated with coronavirus in northern China’s Tianjin Municipality by anti-epidemic authorities in the area, who are now tracing those who have been in contact with the batches, Sky News reported. According to authorities, the company has produced 4,836 […]
Continue reading …On Friday, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) hinted at the possibility of waging war against Ethiopia, calling on the Ethiopian authorities to stop what it described as “provocations and attacks”.This came in a statement by the SPA, leader of the protest movement, in conjunction with the continuing armed tensions in border areas between the two countries. Sudanese army soldiers […]
Continue reading …Somalia’s southwest state President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Lafta Garen on Saturday urged the federal government, UN agencies and humanitarian partners to urgently intervene in Bakol province. His request came after he visited Hudur, the capital of the Bakol region. “Today I visited Hudur, and I appeal to the FGS [Federal Government of Somalia], UN Agencies […]
Continue reading …TEHRAN – The French foreign minister has said it urgent that Tehran abides by the terms of the nuclear agreement and Washington returns to the deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).According to the nuclear deal, Iran reached with the 5+1 nations (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus […]
Continue reading …Residents wash the road after the Kabul ambush WAKIL KOHSAR AFP Residents wash the road after the Kabul ambush WAKIL KOHSAR AFP Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court in an early morning ambush in the country’s capital Sunday, officials said, as a wave of assassinations continues to rattle the nation. Violence […]
Continue reading …Vaccines from the West, Russia, or China? Or none at all? That dilemma faces nations in southeastern Europe, where coronavirus vaccination campaigns are off to a slow start – overshadowed by heated political debates and conspiracy theories.In countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria, vaccine skeptics have included former presidents and even […]
Continue reading …Every adult in the UK should have been offered their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by September, Dominic Raab has said. The government is working with this as their target, though say it may possibly happen more quickly.Last week, Matt Hancock had been more vague about exactly when people would start to be getting […]
Continue reading …An illustration shows vials of a COVID-19 vaccine and syringes with the logos of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German partner BioNTech. Photo: AFP Twenty-three elderly Norwegian people died after receiving Pfizer vaccines. Thirteen of them have been assessed and common side effects may have contributed to severe reactions in them, according to the […]
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