This year’s ten most expensive weather disasters have caused more than 170 billion dollars in damage. That is twenty billion dollars more than in 2020, the British charity Christian Aid announced on Monday. The non-governmental organization (NGO) calculates what floods, fires and heatwaves cost each year based on insurance […]
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14-Year-Old Killed by Police Bullet in Los Angeles Clothing Store
On Thursday, a 14-year-old girl was killed at a Los Angeles clothing store after police opened fire on a suspicious man, who was also fatally injured. The girl was hidden in a dressing room, according to The Los Angeles Times, where she was hit through the wall by the […]
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Corona Pills Pfizer Can Also be Used in the US
The American Medicines Authority (FDA) has approved the use of the corona pills from pharmaceutical company Pfizer. This makes it the first drug against Covid that can be used in the United States, albeit only for patients with a high health risk who are older than 12 years. The […]
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Former Trump Adviser Starts Lawsuit Against Commission of Inquiry
Michael Flynn, the former security adviser to former President Donald Trump, has sued the congressional committee investigating the storming of the US Capitol on January 6 this year. He hopes this will prevent the committee from gaining access to his telephone data. Flynn argues that the subpoena previously issued […]
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Hostage in Paris Supermarket Ended: No Injuries
Since Monday, the man who had been holding a woman hostage in a shop in the 12th arrondissement of Paris has been arrested. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reported this. There were no injuries. The hostage-taker, a 56-year-old man with a psychiatric history, entered a shop on Rue d’Aligre, […]
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US Senators Warren and Booker have Covid-19
US Senator Elizabeth Warren said she has tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms on Sunday. Later that day, Senator Cory Booker also announced that he had contracted a corona infection. Warren, 72, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said on Twitter that she is fully vaccinated, boosted and […]
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Six People Killed by Typhoon Rai in the Philippines
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 […]