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Germanys ethics council rules on mandatory vaccination Police officers stand guard outside a coronavirus vaccination center at the zoo in Hanover, Germany on December 17, 2021. © Reuters / Fabian Bimmer
Germanys leading ethics body has supported the idea of extending mandatory coronavirus vaccination to all adults, stressing, however, that direct... |
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Dutch prosecutors demand life sentence for MH17 disaster suspects FILE PHOTO. MH17 wreckage. © Reuters / Piroschka van de Wouw
Prosecutors in the Netherlands have said that four men they allege were behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 should spend life behind bars for their purported role in the incident.
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Erdogan offers indigenous Covid jab to world FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / Esra Hacioglu
Turkish authorities have given emergency use authorization to the indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine, named Turkovac. The health minister said it would be available from the end of December.
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France extends Covid vaccination to children aged 5-11 A medical worker administers a dose of a Covid vaccine to a child in Les Pavillons-sous-Bois, near Paris, France. © Reuters / Sarah Meyssonnier
French Health Minister Olivier Veran has announced that the Covid vaccination campaign for children aged 5-11 is now open, proceeding with a plan announced... |
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Bill Gates shares good news on progress of Covid pandemic © Evan Vucci/Pool via REUTERS
Billionaire Bill Gates has found little sympathy after saying he has canceled "most" of his holiday plans over the Covid variant Omicron, while also providing advice on how the pandemic can end in 2022.
"Just when it seemed like life would return to normal, we could... |
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Haitian migrants sue Biden administration over treatment at southern border Migrants take shelter along the Del Rio International Bridge at sunset as they await to be processed after crossing the Rio Grande river into the US from Ciudad Acuna in Del Rio, Texas, Sept. 19, 2021. (Reuters photo)
A group of Haitian asylum seekers is suing the administration of US President Joe... |
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40% of Afghan media have closed, 80% of women journalists lost their jobs A survey by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) has found a radical change in the Afghan media landscape since the takeover by the Taliban.
According to a report on the RSF website, a total of 231 media outlets have closed and more than 6,400 journalists... |
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UN rights office calls on Belarus, Poland to address refugees appalling situation Migrant children are seen near the fence on the Poland-Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this video-grab released by the Polish Interior Ministry on November 11, 2021. (Via Reuters)
A spokesperson for the UN Human Rights office says Belarus and Poland are pushing refugees back and forth across... |
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Elizabeth Warren blasts US supermarket chains for high food prices Elizabeth Warren, senior United States senator from Massachusetts. (File photo by AFP)
S Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has criticized major American retailers for increasing food prices amid the coronavirus pandemic in the country, causing further economic hardships for the people.
Warren put... |
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Omicron becomes dominant COVID variant in US This picture taken on Apr 23, 2020 shows a general view of the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (File photo by AFP)
The fast-spreading Omicron variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control... |
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Europe considering new curbs as Omicron sweeps world A protester holds a banner reading "Vaccination passport equals apartheid" as she attends a protest in The Hague, the Netherlands, on December 18, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
Countries across Europe were considering new curbs on movement on Tuesday as the fast-moving Omicron variant swept the world days... |
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ICRC to support salaries for 10K health workers in crises-hit Afghanistan This picture taken on September 29, 2021 shows a woman receiving treatment at the Afghan Japan COVID-19 hospital in Kabul. (Photo by AFP)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will support salaries for nearly 10,000 staff working in hospitals across Afghanistan amidst worsening economic... |
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Australia rules out COVID-19 lockdowns despite Omicron surge Australia must move past "the heavy hand of government" and authorities must stop shutting down peoples lives with COVID-19 lockdowns, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday, as a new pandemic high of 4,600 infections in the country were reported.
COVID-19 cases have been breaking records... |
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US House Dems warn of imminent mass starvation in Afghanistan, urging Biden to unfreeze Afghan central bank reserves A Taliban fighter walks next to women waiting in line during a World Food Program food distribution on the outskirts of Kabul on November 6, 2021. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
More than 40 House Democrats are warning about "imminent mass starvation" in Afghanistan, calling on US President Joe Biden... |
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NGO sues French and British authorities over Channel migrant boat tragedy Zana Mamand, shows a photo of his missing brother, Twana Mamand, who was lost at sea in the English Channel trying to get to the UK, in Ranya, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. - Copyright Khalid Mohammed/AP
An NGO has filed a lawsuit against French and British authorities over their failure to rescue... |
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Afghanistans economy in free fall; 97% population staring at poverty, warns UN official Displaced Afghan families sit with their belongings as they prepare to return to their provinces, at a makeshift shelter at Shahr-e Naw park, in Kabul, Afghanistan October 4, 2021. (Photo by Reuters)
Afghanistans crisis-stricken economy is in "free fall", the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator said... |
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Tough times ahead, Fauci warns of record coronavirus deaths over omicron variant Chief Medical Advisor to the US president, Anthony Fauci, watches as US President Joe Biden speaks on the Covid-19 omicron variant in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on November 29, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
Top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned... |
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US vaccine data gaps point to millions of unvaccinated people People wait to be tested for COVID-19 at a street-side testing booth in New York on Dec. 17. (Photo by AFP)
The US government has reportedly over-counted the number of Americans that had been at least partly vaccinated against the coronavirus, raising fears that millions more remain unprotected as... |
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Netherlands imposes hard lockdown People do their Christmas shopping before the Dutch governments announcement of a "strict" Christmas lockdown, in Nijmegen, Netherlands, December 18, 2021 © Reuters / Piroschka van de Wouw
Bars, cafes, and all but the most essential stores will close in the Netherlands until mid-January, as... |
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London declares major incident over Omicron © Reuters / Hannah McKay
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a ‘major incident in the UK capital over the quickly deteriorating epidemiological situation prompted by the fast-spreading Omicron variant.
"Today I have declared a major incident in London because of the serious threat... |
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US sexual abuse cases lodged against Charlotte-area Boy Scouts in new trials Boy Scouts hold the US flag during a pledge of allegiance ceremony on September 11, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by AFP)
More than two dozen victims have sued members of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) for decades of sexual abuse.
North Carolina victims took their BSA sex attackers to court... |
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COVID kills South Florida police more often than gunfire US police officers block an area where a shooting wounded several FBI agents while serving an arrest warrant, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, in Sunrise, Florida. (AP photo)
Of the 33 law enforcement officers in South Florida who lost their lives in the line of duty over the past two years, three were killed... |
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Kamala Harris concedes White House didnt see Delta and Omicron coming US Vice President Kamala Harris answers a question from a journalist at the Ceremonial Office of the Eisenhower Executive Building in Washington, DC on December 10, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
US Vice President Kamala Harris has acknowledged that Joe Bidens administration failed to prepare for the emergence... |
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Tidal wave: Omicron threatens to put US COVID-19 surge into overdrive Bipartisan members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), hold a moment of silence for the more than 800,000 American lives lost to COVID-19 outside the Capitol building in Washington, December 14, 2021. (Photo by Reuters)
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Iran has no city in COVID-19 high-risk red zone No city in Iran has been in the COVID-19 high-risk red zone during the past 24 hours, the countrys Health Ministry and Medical Education said on Saturday.
According to the latest figures, eight cities are in the orange zone, while 119 are in the yellow zone. A total of 321 cities are in the blue... |
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Several Foxconn India workers hospitalized after food poisoning Several employees of a Foxconn India unit, which makes iPhones for Apple Inc, were hospitalized on Saturday after a bout of food poisoning, a source familiar with the matter said.
The food poisoning occurred earlier this week at Foxconns dormitories, where a majority of its staff lives, said a second... |
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Thai prison set on fire during riot over coronavirus cluster Hundreds of prisoners set fire to a Thai jail during a two-day riot over the handling of a coronavirus cluster, with some inmates wounded as officers sought to restore order.
Thai prisons are notoriously overcrowded and have struggled to curb the spread of the virus -- more than 87,000 inmates have... |
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Number of Afghan children without enough food rises to 3.3 million The number of children in Afghanistan not getting enough to eat has increased by 3.3 million in the four months since the collapse of the previous government, Save the Children has reported.
According to data from UN World Food Programme (WFP), as of the end of November, 98% of the population do not... |
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Taliban intends to mend Nasir Khisrow Balkhis tomb Provincial officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in the northern Badakhshan province have said that they will fundamentally mend the historic tomb of the Persian poet and writer Nasir Khisrow Balkhi.
A team of cultural officials of the province along with the Taliban officials has visited... |
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France to ask EU to take legal action against UK in fishing dispute French fishermen repair their nets at Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France, on December 28, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
Paris is set to call on the European Union (EU) to take legal action against London over a long-running fishing dispute with the UK, Frances European affairs minister says.
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