Thu 06 May 2021: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed a decision by the United States to back intellectual property waivers for coronavirus vaccines, calling it “a monumental moment” in the fight against the virus. WHO Executive Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday commended the Biden administration’s support for temporarily waiving intellectual property […]
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Thu 06 May 2021: Acute food insecurity has reached a five-year high worldwide as the international community grapples with conflict, the coronavirus pandemic and climate change, a UN-backed report warned on Wednesday. Conflict, the economic fallout from the pandemic and extreme weather “are continuing to push millions of people into acute food insecurity,” according to […]
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Wed 05 May 2021: Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company’s suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump, CNN reported. The decision to uphold the ban is a blow to Trump’s hopes to post again to Facebook or Instagram anytime soon, but it opens the door to him eventually returning to the platforms. […]
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Wed 05 May 2021: Germany’s Interior Minister has said that far-right crimes in the country have hit a record high. Far-right offences accounted for more than half of all politically motivated crimes and are at their highest level in 20 years since police started collecting data in 2001. Horst Seehofer has said that politically motivated […]
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Wed 05 May 2021: The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (Iata), has reported on Tuesday that March remained depressed at 87.8 percent of pre-pandemic March 2019 levels, even as domestic air travel pulled to within 32 percent of volumes prior to the COVID-19 crisis, the International Air Transport […]
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Wed 05 May 2021: Isabel Diaz Ayuso of Spain’s conservative Popular Party won elections in Madrid by a landslide Tuesday, managing to more than double her party’s seats in the regional government. “Freedom has triumphed in Madrid again,” she declared. “Today, from Madrid, we’re going to reclaim that freedom for the rest of Spain.” Ayuso […]
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Wed 05 May 2021: Former United States President Donald Trump has launched a space on his website where he can post messages that can be shared by others to Twitter and Facebook, sites where he remains banned. The move on Tuesday comes a day before a decision from Facebook Inc’s oversight board on whether to […]
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Tue 04 May 2021: The Bill and Melinda Gates divorce is now the most expensive in the world, coming in at an estimated cost of $127 billion, according to The New Zealand Herald. The split of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie in 2019. It is to be noted that the Gates are […]
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Tue 04 May 2021: Marine Le Pen, the leader of the right-wing National Rally party, has been acquitted together with her fellow European lawmaker, Gilbert Collard, in a probe into posting images depicting gruesome crimes committed by the Islamic State terrorist group on their Twitter accounts back in 2015, media reported on Tuesday. Le Pen displayed the three images, including one of […]
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Tue 04 May 2021: Greece’s journalists and media workers unions on Tuesday are staging a 24-hour strike to mark International Workers’ Day, which is usually celebrated on May 1. The strike, which was organized by the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) and other associations, started at 03:00 GMT and involves most of the […]
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