Typhoon Rai has killed at least six people in the Philippines. Villages have been flooded in southern and central regions, electricity grids disrupted, and trees uprooted. Rai, known locally as Odette, made landfall on Thursday as a super typhoon with winds of up to 195 kilometres per hour, accompanied […]
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Suriname Government Regrets Incident With Journalist
The government of Surinamese President Chan Santokhi regrets that there has been a heavy-handed confrontation between security officers of Vice President Ronnie Brunswijk and journalist Jason Pinas. In a statement, the government wrote on Wednesday that it wants the Surinamese attorney general to investigate the journalist’s report with “care […]
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US Study: Vaccines Without Booster Ineffective Against Omicron
According to research published Tuesday by Massachusetts General Hospital, the Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer/BioNTech appear to offer significantly less protection against the Omicron variant of the virus than against other variants, according to research published Tuesday by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Harvard and MIT. […]
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US Calls on China to End Aggression in Indo-Pacific
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on China to stop aggressive movements in the Indo-Pacific. Blinken said that during a visit to the region, the US hopes to strengthen alliances against China’s growing power. “Marking open seas as your own and disrupting open markets through subsidies to […]
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Meadows Emailed National Guard Would Protect Trump Fans
Mark Meadows wrote in an email a day before the January 6 attack on the Capitol that the National Guard would be standing by to protect pro-Trump protesters. A parliamentary committee writes that in a report on the former chief of staff to former President Donald Trump. The US […]
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Trump Loses Appeal Over Capitol Storming Documents
A US court on appeal has rejected ex-President Donald Trump’s demand not to release presidential documents about the January 6 storming of the Capitol. He challenged a decision by his successor Joe Biden in the District of Columbia Court. “Based on the data that former President Trump has made […]
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British Newspapers Furious Over Alleged Christmas Party Johnson Office
The British morning papers on Thursday have nothing good to say about the Christmas party that would have been organised last year in the office of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. For example, The Sun writes on the front page, next to a photo of Boris Johnson dressed as […]
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US: House Approves $768 Billion Defense Budget
A large majority of the United States House of Representatives passed a final version of the defence budget for 2022 late Tuesday evening (local time). The budget law authorizes defence spending worth USD 768 billion. That amount is $25 billion more than President Joe Biden had asked for and […]
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WHO Advises Against the Use of Plasma Therapy in the Treatment of Covid-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) advised on Tuesday against the use of plasma therapy to treat corona patients with mild or moderate symptoms. In the British Medical Journal, the WHO says that “current evidence shows that survival does not increase and the need for medical ventilators does not decrease” […]
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CNN: US to Diplomatically Boycott Beijing Games
The US government will soon officially announce that it will not send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. President Joe Biden will make the diplomatic boycott official this week, and several sources told the news channel. However, according to CNN, the United States National Security Council, […]