Category : COVID-19

PARIS (AFP) – Scientists are keeping a close watch on a recently discovered sub-variant of the Omicron version of the Covid-19 virus to determine how its emergence could effect the pandemic’s future spread. The initial Omicron variant has become the dominant virus strain in recent months, but British health authorities have notably identified hundreds of […]Read More

The way the Supreme Court has handled Texas’ ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy signaled that its Roe precedent — a landmark abortion rights decision — does not stand to be fully intact by its 50th anniversary. The fallout from the Texas legal fight has also provided a preview of what abortion access […]Read More

Bitcoin (BTC) refused to stem recent losses during Jan. 22 as predictions of a flight to $33,000 and lower looked increasingly likely to become a reality. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView. Open interest “still not flushed” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it fell through $35,000 during the first half […]Read More

‘COVID’s a drag – blame China’: Meat Loaf, 74, said ‘we’re all suffering’ thanks to the pandemic in Cameo video message to fan three weeks before he died from the virus and said he couldn’t sing Happy Birthday because he’d had an endoscopy Meat Loaf, 74, died on Thursday after falling ‘critically ill’ with COVID-19, […]Read More

LONDON (REUTERS) – A British Conservative lawmaker said he would meet police to discuss his accusations that Mr Boris Johnson’s government had attempted to “blackmail” parliamentarians who were suspected of trying to force the Prime Minister from office. Mr William Wragg, chairman of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee and a member of Mr Johnson’s […]Read More

Three US studies offer more evidence that third dose of COVID vaccine is highly effective against Omicron. Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have proven highly effective at preventing Omicron-related hospitalisations, according to three new studies by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The booster doses were 90 percent effective at keeping people […]Read More

A staff gives orders while people receive booster shot of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a square, in Taipei, Taiwan, January 17, 2022.REUTERS/Ann Wang Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register TAIPEI, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s government ordered a tightening of controls on Saturday after a rare spike in domestic transmission […]Read More

BERLIN (AFP) – Germany will send a field hospital to Ukraine, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Saturday (Jan 22), while once again rejecting Kiev’s calls for weapons deliveries as fears of a Russian invasion grow. Berlin has already delivered respirators to Ukraine and severely injured Ukrainian soldiers are currently being treated in Bundeswehr hospitals, […]Read More

After one year, the reviews from the American people in public polling on those topics, in many cases, have not been kind. Biden won’t face the voters again until 2024, the ultimate judgment on what the American people think of the job he’s done in office. But to get a benchmark on how Americans are […]Read More

SIENA, Italy (NYTIMES) – The award-winning photograph – of a man who had lost a leg in a bomb attack in Syria, hoisting into the air his son, born without limbs, another casualty of the country’s civil war – went viral last year in Italy. On Friday (Jan 21), Mr Munzir El Nezzel, the man […]Read More